Amaechi Muonagor
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| Born | (1956-08-20)20 August 1956
Obosi, Anambra State, Nigeria
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| Died | 24 March 2024(2024-03-24) (aged 67) |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | University of Nigeria, Nsukka |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989–2024 |
| Children | 4 |
Amaechi Muonagor // ⓘ (20 August 1956 – 24 March 2024) was a veteran Nigerian actor, producer and comedian. He was nominated for the 2017 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards for Best actor. Born in Obosi, Anambra State, a state in the southeastern part of Nigeria. He joined the Nigerian movie industry Nollywood in 1998 and had starred in many movies including Taboo 1 (1989), Aki and Pawpaw, Karishika (1998), and Aki na Ukwa (2002), Igodo (1999).[1]
Amaechi Muonagor was born in Obosi, a village in Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State. He attended St. Mary's Primary School, Obosi, Oraifite Grammar School before he furthered his education at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu state, where he studied economics and graduated in 1987.[2]
In 1989 after his youth service, Amaechi started working for NAN (News Agency of Nigeria). He left his job a few years later for an acting role in his first movie as Akunatakasi in Taboo 1, a Nigerian movie.[3]
Amaechi, among other Nollywood stars like Chinyere Winifred, Ebere Okaro, joined Dr. Chris Eke of Word and Spirit Assembly, Ijegun Lagos as he marked his 40th birthday back in 2015, celebrating it with kirikiri maximum prison inmates as well as children at the Hearts of Gold Children's Hospice orphanage home.[4] In 2020, he said sexual harassment is not peculiar to Nollywood as it happens in every profession.[5]
In 2016, it was reported that Amaechi was suffering from diabetes and had left the film industry. In 2023, he suffered from a stroke that resulted in partial paralysis of his left leg. The veteran actor's death occurred just days after he appealed for financial assistance on social media to enable him to pay for a kidney transplant. [6][7][8] He died of kidney failure on 24 March 2024, at the age of 67.[9]
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