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Ricky Allotey is a Ghanaian actor, film producer and publicist. He is the head of media for Black Star International festival (BSIFF) and a Manager at RAN Afrique productions. He is a member of the film director’s guild of Ghana (FDGG) and is currently an ambassador for Malta Guinness sub-Saharan Africa.

Engineering
Ricky graduated as a mechanical engineer and started his life after school as a mechanical valuer with a consulting and advisory firm for Vanguard Assurance company limited. He was involved in undertaken assignments in valuation of Plant and Machinery including vehicles, and Loss Surveys for companies with branches all across Africa such as Barclays Bank Ghana Limited, Alpha Property Services, Barnicom Surveys, Multimedia Group Limited, Sonitra Ghana Limited, Pasico Ghana Limited, Drill Masters Africa, We 2 Sea Food Ltd, Ningo Salt Limited, Gbeewa Petrochemicals company Limited, Dannex Limited.

Television and Media
Allotey’s appearance on screen become regular when he starred in the Ghanaian television series The Butterfly Effect on Viasat 1. Allotey has since then appeared in numerous films and television shows. He went on to produce Television talk shows and Television series. He is the line-producer for the feature film Bigman Wahala. Bigman Wahala is the road journey of a government official set in the aftermath of a military coup d'etat.

His most recent work was on the BBC Two and Netflix original series Black Earth Rising produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Hugo Blick, it is set to be released worldwide the summer of 2018.

Filmography

 * Hooked
 * Heartbreak Hotel
 * The Butterfly Effects
 * Brains Behind
 * Borla Bois
 * Black Earth Rising
 * My Father My Mother
 * The Deep Place
 * Bigman Wahala
 * Raging Hearts