Amaechi Muonagor

Amaechi Muonagor (20 August 1956 – 24 March 2024) was a veteran Nigerian actor, comedian, and movie producer. He was nominated for the 2017 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards for Best actor. 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).

Early life
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.

Career
In 1989, 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 the Nigerian movie, Taboo 1.

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 prison inmates, as well as with children at the Hearts of Gold Children's Hospice orphanage home. In 2020, Amaechi said sexual harassment is not peculiar to Nollywood as it happens in every profession.

Illness and death
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. On 24 March 2024, Amaechi died of kidney failure, at the age of 67.

Filmography

 * Taboo 1 (1989)
 * Karishika (1998) as Minister Jonathan
 * Igodo (1999)
 * Issakaba (2000) as Igwe
 * Vanity Upon Vanity (2000) as Egwu
 * Married to a Witch (2001) as Papa
 * Aki na Ukwa (2002) as Mbakwe
 * Charge & Bail (2003) as Jephtah
 * Cold War (2005) as Odimba
 * Desperate Women (2006) as Jude
 * End of Evil Doers (2007) as Igwe Onyima
 * His Last Action (2008) as David
 * Sincerity (2009) as Chief Ezekwe
 * Without Goodbye (2009) as Chief Rufus
 * Most Wanted Kidnappers (2010) as Utu
 * Jack and Jill (2011) as Amadi
 * Village Rascal (2012)
 * August Meeting (2012) as Mazi Igwemba
 * Ihite Kingdom (2014) as Alfred
 * Evil World (2015)
 * Ugonma (2015)
 * Code of Silence (2015)
 * Spirits (2016)
 * Rosemary (2016)
 * The Bushman I Love (2017) as Chief Mmili
 * High Stakes (2019) as Pius
 * My Village People (2021) as Ndio
 * Aki and Pawpaw (2021) as Mazi Mbakwe
 * Fishers of Wealth (203) as Obiakor