Allow me reintroduce myself.
My name is DEOLA GIMBIYA.
First of her name.
The One and Only.
I am an A-List Multiple Award-Winning Actor and Producer.
I Am #Talent
I Am #Wit
I Am #Brains
I Am #Brazen
I Am #Distinct
I Am #Classic
I Am #ForCHRIST
And If You Haven't Yet Realised...
I Am #Phoenix.
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Good morning! 🌤 from #Lagos, 🇳🇬
Have a beautiful day, Fam 💋
#InMyLane
#Queen
#DeolaGimbiya 👑
#DGimbiya 👑
“DEOLA The Movie” received an Award at the RTF 2019 Realtime Filmmaking Challenge Awards Ceremony yesterday.
CONGRATULATIONS to the team:
@officialmomstar@afeofficial7@edirabor@iraborvoke@faithomughele@deolagimbiya
Cheers to more Awards and Successes🥂🥂
Cheers to Changing The Narrative 🍻🥂
********************************* A BIG Thank Youuu to @realtimefilmfestival 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 All Glory Be To God🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 #DeolaTheMovie #AwardWinningFilm #DGimbiya👑
Yo! Have you heard??!
I AM ON NETFLIX, YO!
THIS LADY CALLED LIFE is on Netflix!!!!
This film is my NETFLIX DEBUT @naijaonnetflix & i am super stoked!
Enjoy! 😊💃
#ThisLadyCalledLife
#TLCL
#DeolaGimbiya
#AdeolaShinaba
#👑
Before the performance comes the excavation.
Every character leaves clues.
My job is to listen between the lines until the character starts breathing.
#Craft
#Discipline
#ScriptAnalysis
#🎭
To the woman i am today,
Take a breath, my darling.
For a moment, just sit with the weight of everything you are carrying, and everything you finally had the courage to put down.
I am writing this because we don't say it enough: I am so deeply proud of you.
I look at you now and I see a mosaic of every version of us that came before.
I see the girl who had to be brave before she knew what the word meant.
I see the version of you that stayed up late wondering if things would ever get easier, and the version that kept showing up even when she felt completely invisible or defeated.
Thank you for surviving the days when the world felt too heavy.
Thank you for the quiet resilience it took to rebuild yourself after every loss, every disappeared plan, and every moment of frustration.
You didn't just "get through" it, you grew through it.
You took the pieces and crafted a woman of grace, strength, and such immense worth.
You are the evidence of your own survival.
You are your own greatest success story.
Please, be as kind to yourself as you are to the rest of the world.
You have earned this version of peace.
You have earned this skin you live in.
I love you.
I’ve got you.
And I am so, so proud of who we’ve become.
With all my heart,
Me.
🥰💕🥰💕🥰💕🥰💕🥰💕🥰💕🥰💕
#LetterToTheWomanIAmToday
#MyBestGirl
#InternationalWomensDay
#2026
Today , i caught myself reflecting on something i have quietly observed about women over the years, about a small moment that stayed with me.
Years ago, i watched a woman hold herself together in a way that only women sometimes understand.
Nothing dramatic was happening on the surface.
Life was simply… heavy.
I remember noticing the tiredness in her eyes.
The kind that comes from carrying many things at once - responsibilities, expectations, emotions she probably didn’t feel safe saying out loud.
And yet she still showed up.
She still answered people kindly.
She still made space for others.
She still held everything together as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
At the time i didn’t fully understand what i was witnessing.
But over the years, life has a way of teaching you slowly.
I began to recognize that kind of quiet strength in many women - and sometimes, even in myself.
The strength to rebuild quietly after disappointment.
The strength to keep loving even when life has not been particularly gentle.
The strength to gather your pieces, take a deep breath, and begin again.
No applause.
No announcement.
Just a quiet decision to continue.
I have watched women carry entire worlds on their shoulders and still find a way to smile.
Not because life is easy.
But because their hearts are stronger than the weight they carry.
And that is something i have come to respect deeply about women.
So today, on International Women’s Day, i am thinking about all the women whose strength often goes unseen.
The ones who keep families together.
The ones who hold space for others while they are still healing themselves.
The ones who rise each morning and choose courage in ways the world may never fully notice.
Women are not hard to understand. We are simply deep in a world that prefers shallow.
If you are a woman reading this today, i hope you remember how much quiet strength it took to become who you are.
I also hope you remember this:
Many of the strongest women you will ever meet did not start out feeling strong.
They simply learned, one day at a time,
how to rise again.
Happy International Women’s Day, Woman.
❤️
#iwd
#hearttoheart
This time last year my feelings were numb.
Valentine's day, fell around the season i figured out the whats, whos, hows and whys and the roles every single person I have ever known or come across played / still plays in my journey since i was born.
It was devastating yet enlightening.
An eureka season.
A compass, sort of.
So,
I went into a quiet cocoon.
I had 2 options.
Give up or go on regardless.
I chose the latter and one beautiful day i emerged reborn from that cocoon a beautiful extraordinary butterfly.
Redesigned.
One of a kind.
In a lifetime.
Today, for the first time in 11 years i happily and cheerfully celebrate Valentine's day with deeper insight, and a brand new heart overflowing with the redemptive love of Jesus Christ.
Hence, the audio too. It felt like the right time to use it.
Out with the old and in with the New.
Today, I humbly approach the Throne of Mercy and Grace unto my Father, My Creator to receive God's Mercy and Grace through Jesus Christ;
Dear Lord Jesus Christ, when you're ready to send me one of your sons, the one you carefully handpicked for me, help him find me and please make me ready to receive him also. Guide he and i, Lord. Thank you already, Father.
And to myself;
Dear Deola Gimbiya, thank you for being amazing, for holding it all together, for hanging in there, for believing, for evolving, for choosing Jesus Christ, for everything. I love you so much my dear self, my Best Girl. Thank you Adeola Gimbiya omo Shinaba. Omo Adeniji Apata.
On this note I say;-
Happy Valentine's Day to Me, to You reading this and to All of Us.
🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋
#🦋
#💖
Each morning looked the same from the outside.
No announcements. No rush. Just small, deliberate choices—made and kept.
Nothing dramatic shifted, yet something did...
If you measured the change, you’d miss it.
But yesterday would recognize the difference immediately.
#enigma
#✨
