Early Life
Adeyemi Lardner was born in Freetown/Sierra Leone. He was born to Christiana Baker Lardner and Ade Monfort Lardner, with three siblings – Franklyn Baker, Marielyn Sesay and Tungie Lardner. Adeyemi presently resides in the United States of America in Maryland. He attended holy Trinity Primary School in the early 80s, Bishop Johnson Secondary and Services Secondary School Juba Barracks. He proceeded to the Bishop Johnson Secondary and Services Secondary school Juba Barracks. He stopped Form Five (5) and did not further to college.
Adult Life
He is a single father with three kids – Francis Lardner, Christiana Lardner, and Princess Lardner
Career
Adeyemi Lardner is a film producer, director, actor, scriptwriter and a businessman and chief executive officer of the Iron Master Production. He has won several national and international awards for movies like ‘Perfect Plan, The Princess, and Botie . He is also the former Weightlifting Champion of Sierra Leone for both 2003 and 2004 where he earned the nickname Iron Master.
He loved watching movies since the first day he set his foot to the cinema in the 80’s. he fell in love with the art and got inspired to learn a lot about movies. Adeyemi started doing business in the mid 90’s. He opened local Cinemas and rental video Club in the eastern part of Freetown.
In 2003 when Abu Noah produced a movie titled, Bai Bureh Goes to War; the audience review including him rated as 2 to 10. The script and concept were not properly structured. Since that day, Adeyemi and his best friend – Royston Robert started working on writing movie scripts. In 2005 he produced his first debut movie titled ‘Deception’, in which he played the lead actor and co-directed with his friend – Royston Robert. The movie was premiered on the 24th of December 2005 and became a huge success. Since then, he was encouraged by his friends to make filmmaking his career. To this day, Adeyemi is one of the highly rated Sierra Leonean Filmmakers with the highest number of awards as actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He has promoted a lot of African Actors in the US to show case their talent. His dream is to contribute to making the Sierra Leone Movie Industry as one of the highly rated African Film Industries, and work with Americans, Africans and other nationalities across the world on projects that could help improve his GOD given talent.
Filmography and Awards
1.Perfect Plan 1 (2011) -lead actor, producer, director & screenwriter
5 nominations
2. Deception – 2005 – Actor, Screenwriter, producer, and director
3. Deadly Promise-2007 – Actor, Screenwriter, producer, Director
4.The Price -2009 -Actor Assistant director
5.Dark Side of Life– Actor (2010)
6.Perfect Plan 2 – 2015 -Actor, screenwriter, Producer, Director
8 Nominations…
Awards
Best Film, Next Generation Award (NEGA), Best Film, AWOL – USA
Best actress – Next Generation Award (NGEA)
Best Actor – Adeyemi Lardner – Next Generation Award (NGEA)
Best Screenplay- Adeyemi Lardner – Next Generation Award (NGEA)
7. The Princess -2017 – Actor, Producer, Scriptwriter and Director
27 nominations
Best Film..AWOL Award, Best Film – Africa Oscar’s Award (London)
Best Film – Nollywood Entertainment and Leadership Award (NELAS)
Best Actress – African Oscar’s Award
Best actor- Adeyemi Lardner – Los Angeles Nollywood Film/Music Award (LANFA)
Best Supporting actor and actress – Los Angeles Nollywood Film/Music Award ( LANFA)
Best Actor Diaspora – Adeyemi Lardner – NEA SL
8. Botie -2018 – Actor, screenwriter, producer, and irector
13 Nominations
Awards
Best Actor – Adeyemi Lardner – National Entertainment Awards (NEA)
Best Actor – Adeyemi Lardner – World Music and Independent Film Festival Award – WMIFF
Best Actress – World Music and Independent Film Festival Award
Best Actor – Adeyemi Lardner – Sierra Leone Association of Artist and Musicians (SLAAM)
Best Director – Adeyemi Lardner – Sierra Leone Association of Artist and Musicians (SLAAM)
Best Supporting Actor…DESMOND FINNY…Sierra Leone Association of Artist and Musicians (SLAAM)
Best Actress – Los Angeles Nollywood Film/Music Award (LANFA)
9.Quench – 2020 – Actor, screenwriter, director
10. The Good Wife – Actor, screenwriter, and director
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