---
name: "Maynard Eziashi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maynard-eziashi"
fi1m_id: "maynard-eziashi"
imdb_id: "nm0264330"
tmdb_id: 57096
wikidata_id: "Q6797398"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:59:28.710577+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Maynard Eziashi

## Identity

Maynard Eziashi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maynard-eziashi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maynard-eziashi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0264330
- **TMDB ID:** 57096
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6797398
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Eziashi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6797398, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264330/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57096

Actor. Born 1 January 1965 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1965, London, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Eziashi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6797398, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264330/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57096

## Biography

Maynard Eziashi is a Nigerian-English actor born in London in 1965. He has worked in film and television since 1986.

In 1991, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in *Mister Johnson* (1990). His other film credits include *Twenty-One* (1991), *Bopha!* (1993), *A Good Man in Africa* (1994), *Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls* (1995), *When Brendan Met Trudy* (2001) and *The Contract* (2006).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls* (1995), Fi1m 54, as Ouda — [page](https://film.one/film/ace-ventura-when-nature-calls.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Upon the Edge* (2021), as Finlay
- *National Theatre Live: Barber Shop Chronicles* (2018), as Musa / Andile / Mensah
- *The Contract* (2006), as Robbins
- *Hotel Babylon* (2006), series, as Adam
- *Colour Me Kubrick* (2005), as Adibe
- *Anansi* (2003), as Sir Francis
- *Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)* (2001), as Gloria
- *When Brendan Met Trudy* (2000), as Edgar
- *Janice Beard 45 WPM* (1999), as Clive Morley
- *On the Edge* (1998), Actor
- *Der Kapitän* (1997), series, as N. P. Sembene
- *Bad Boy Blues* (1996), as Ad
- *Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls* (1995), as Ouda — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/ace-ventura-when-nature-calls.md)
- *A Good Man in Africa* (1994), as Friday, Leafy's Houseman
- *The Changeling* (1993), as Jasperino
- *Bopha!* (1993), as Zweli Mangena
- *Downtown Lagos* (1992), series, as Elvis Afolabe
- *Performance* (1991), series, as Jasperino
- *Twenty-One* (1991), as Baldie
- *Mister Johnson* (1991), as Mister Johnson
- *Hallelujah Anyhow* (1991), as Ray
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, as Ray, Ad

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