Shawn Faqua
Shawn Faqua is a Nigerian actor, model, and presenter with multiple award nominations. Faqua is a method actor and is known to successfully take on several accents as needed by the character he is playing. Besides, screen-acting Faqua has acted in several stage plays, modeled for Lagos business school, Guaranty Trust Bank, First City Monument Bank, fashion shows, and other major organizations in the country. In addition to his acting work, he is a great singer, a talent he displayed in the short film ‘The good Life’, where he performed the original soundtrack of the song ‘i wan blow’. Faqua is known to take on roles that are sensational, challenging, cheesy, intense, and humorous. Many of the productions he has starred in address significant problems that fringe on love, politics, culture, human rights, conflict, rape, betrayal, selfless service, and sacrifice. He has been known to continually research each character he portrays and pays attention to details (language, articulation, technique, and other nuances related to the character he’s portraying), as he constantly likes to tell a compelling and plausible story. Faqua likes reading, dancing, playing tennis, traveling, and watching movies.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Actor
- 8 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
What are Shawn Faqua's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 5
Light 0 · Serious 5 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 2
Steady 1 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 1
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
A split, not a type: Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Allyas Toby Nworie in Living in Bondage: Breaking Free (2019)
- Allyas Swell's friends in Haywire (2023)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Shawn Faqua's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Shawn Faqua's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.
Siraam (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Shínà (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Osato (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
The House of Secrets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Àrìnfesèsí: A Day of Misfortune (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Haywire(2023)
The Trade (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Kofa(2022)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Man of God(2022)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
The Blood Covenant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Soólè (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
La Femme Anjola(2021)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films
Three Thieves (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Bonny And Clara (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Encounters(2019)
Nigerian Prince(2018)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Ojukokoro: Greed(2016)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)Poison Ivy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Lagos Cougars (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Career shape
A full career of 19 titles from 2013 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Shawn Faqua's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 25th percentile, the median of the 6 of 7 with a score; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 21st percentile for acclaim.
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 6 titles are Divisive.
- Universally Panned1
- Divisive3
- Cult Classic1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the acting 65/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 78, detractors 53. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Shawn Faqua work with?
People who share at least 2 of Shawn Faqua's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Enyinna Nwigwe shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Enyinna NwigweShared titles: Kofa (2022), Living in Bondage: Breaking Free (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Enyinna Nwigwe
Producers
- Femi D. OgunsanwoShared titles: Kofa (2022), Ojukokoro: Greed (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Femi D. Ogunsanwo
- Queen MartinsShared titles: Kofa (2022), Ojukokoro: Greed (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Queen Martins