Beautiful US-based Nollywood actress, Toyin Haastrup has been living in the United States of America for close to ten years and had expressed her love for her newfound country except for her acting career which seems not to be moving up at the pace she would have wanted.
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In a recent interview, the light-skinned beauty, who’s working a job as well as pursuing her acting career highlighted the battles she has conquered in order to remain on the course of her career. She said her beginning was fraught with several challenges as she had to put acting on hold for a while.

“Shooting movies here in America takes a lot of challenges because of my daily job. It is very easy in Nigeria, in the sense that it is a full-time job and you have crew members that work with you, but here in America there is nothing like that. We work on certain tight schedules that make it very difficult to go to locations and all of that,” she said.

Speaking further she narrated her experience when she just got to the country, adding that the challenges she faced slowed down her growth as an actress.

“Settling down at first was not as easy as I had thought because there were no papers to work with or get an apartment of my own. But all thanks to my uncle who accepted me to stay with his family. I later found a babysitting job in New Jersey where I was living with the family. From there I was able to save up. Along the line, I met a friend of mine that we graduated from the same University and helped me with this job called ‘under table job’. It is for those who are yet to have their papers. After I moved back to New York I was able to rent my own apartment. For like three years my acting career was on hold. started acting again when Alhaji Rasak Ajao (Araosan) called me to feature in one of his movies. I was also featured in Mr Dele Ogundipe’s movies. And I later produced my own movies too titled “FERANMI” and “STRIPPER”
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Toyin Haastrup started acting in 2009/2010 under Murphy Afolabi’s tutelage. She attended Ojuwoye Primary School in Mushin, Lagos and had her secondary education at Methodist Girls High School Sabo Yaba. She’s an Olabisi Onabanjo University graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in mass communication.

“ I’m using this medium to appreciate my father, my mentor, Alhaji IBD Dende; my boss, Murphy Afolabi and Daddy Taiye Balofin. The list will be incomplete without mentioning my senior colleagues that advised me to stay back in the U.S, namely; Bimbo Oshin, Dele Taiwo, Saidi Balogun, Sanyeri, Eniola Badmus, Kunle Adegbite and Alhaji Rasaq Ajao,” she says.

She also revealed that she’s working on two movies presently, titled OSANLE and WEYINWO.
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