Actor Fred Amugi has corrected a Wikipedia error about his biography. “I was not there,” he said when Giovani mentioned Legon as a possible starting point for his acting career.
Google and other search engines say that the actor graduated from the University of Ghana, but Fred Amugi reveals he has never had tertiary education.
In the words of the veteran actor, “I have never been to the university. That is what people don’t understand.“
He explains that he was discovered right after senior high school and his acting career began in no time.
“I just came from secondary school form 5. In fact, during my last year in school, Nungua Secondary school, the late Nick Teye, who used to work at Ghana films, saw the potential in me. He decided, ‘we’ll do a stage thing, and I want you to play a character. That’s how it all started,” he said.
Fred Amugi mentioned names of people who played major roles in shaping him into the actor he now is. He tipped himself as lucky, saying his career was shaped by the gurus in the movie industry of that era.
The Ghanaian actor, who turns 72 years in November, has acted in over a hundred movies since he started in 1970 and can boast of a career that spans over five decades.
