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Elizabeth 'Liz' Benson

Elizabeth 'Liz' Benson was born in Etinan, Akwa Ibom State  in southern Nigeria. She attended Sylvania State College in the United States of America, where she got a degree in  Dramatic Arts. Benson began acting when she was 5 years old. She featured in  Fortunes, a television  soap opera  in 1993. Benson played the part of Mrs. Agnes Johnson in the soap, which ran for about two years on  NTA Network. In 1994, her role in  Glamour Girls, a successful  home video  film that focused on  escorting, cemented her status as a film actress. Benson suddenly quit acting in 1996. Benson lost her first husband (Samuel Gabriel Etim) while around her mid-twenties. She said that she actually gained strength from his character and that made her able to carry on with her children through the loss. The Ibibio-born actress, took another shot at marriage after her conversion. In a quiet court ceremony in  Abuja  in 2009, She married Bishop Great Ameye of Freedom Family Assembly at the Rainbow Christian Assembly in  Warri,  Delta State. The couple is deeply involved in a Christian Evangelical Ministry. While Benson is an evangelist, her husband, Ameye, is a pastor in Jesse Town,  Ethiope West,  Delta State. Benson is an evangelist and lives in  Delta State  with her husband. Together they run a ministry, Freedom Family Assembly