AMANDA LYNE OKONKWO popularly known as Mandylyne born on the 6th February 1991. A Nigerian based Model, actress, writer and fashion designer. She hails from Anambra state, Christian background. She is the last child from the family of five . Theatre arts and music graduate of Lagos state university. Modelling and Acting has been a career she has always loved to pursue. She was motivated seeing foreign models, especially runway models.
She started her Fashion designing career when she was 15years of age, she started out by drawing ladies in different outfit. She soon realised she had the talent to draw and design. Her acting career started in 2007 when she featured in the clash of the baron, her very first movie, it was challenging to her, however, she was determined and pursued that career and so far has featured in some couple of movies. She started modelling as well. It wasn't easy for her majorly because she is not very tall, she is about 5ft 7inces tall , she most times got rejected because of her height but that didn't stop her. She registered with a modelling agency and that was how her career began in modelling. She went through catwalk training and other trainings and had her first photo session which she claims was fun. She has gone on to feature in runways, ushering classy events, photo magazine jobs amongst so many others.
Due to the passion she has for modelling and fashion , she then decided to start up her own company in order to promote models and other aspect of entertainment and to create opportunities for aspiring models and artistes.
Mandylyne management/couture was created in May 2013. Through this channel, she has successfully trained several super models. She has hosted her own fashion shows, pageantries and others.. Apart from working, she loves to listen to music and writing. And surprisingly has also written lot of short stories, and novels.
AmandaLyne was hosted on #ASKforum on the 17th of June 2015.
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