Minah Ogbenyealu Bird (also known as Mynah Bird and Minah Uko) (11 March 1950 – July 1995) was a Nigerian model and actress active in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
Early life
Bird was born in from
Aba
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in Nigeria and was educated in Nigeria and Finland.
She appeared in several UK films of the 1970s.
Described as the "only major black starlet in British sex films",
she vanished from public view from the late 1970s and was found dead in her
London
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council flat, a few weeks after suffering an apparent
heart attack
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in 1995.
Career
Bird was listed as one of the "top black fashion models who paved the way for black women in fashion" alongside
Iman and
Grace Jones
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.
She appeared on the
cover
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of ''
Oz'' magazine in November 1970. She is credited with a series in the ''
Sunday Mirror
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'' in the mid-1970s that birthed the trend of Kiss N Tell stories in newspapers.
Filmography
References
External links
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1950 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Nigerian actresses
Black British actresses
Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom
British female models
Nigerian female models
Igbo female models
Igbo actresses
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