Desmond Elliot is a Nigerian Actor and Film Director. In 2014, he received a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards; and won the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2nd Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards for his performance in Finding Mercy.
Born Desmond Olushola Elliot, on February 4, 1974, to a Yoruba father from Olowogbowo area of Lagos Island, and a Delta-Igbo mother from Illah, Delta State. He attended Air Force Primary School and St. John’s College in Jos, Plateau State, before proceeding to the Lagos State University from where he graduated in 2003 with a degree in Economics.
Elliot gained recognition in the soap opera, “Everyday People”, and rose to prominence starring in films such as: “Jesu Mushin”, “Fire Love”, “Passion and Pain”, “Great Change”, “My Faithful Friend”, “Magic Love”, “Tunnel of Love”, “Promise and Fail”, “True Romance”, “Lake of Fire”, “The Faithful”, “Enslaved”, “Missing Angel”, “Power of Trust”, “In the Name of Love”, “Passion of Mind”, “Life in New York”, “Melody of Life”, “Discord”, “Atlanta”, “Images in The Mirror”, “Cinderella”, “Above Love”, “Deep Loss”, “Big Pretenders”, “A Kiss from Rose”, “Danger Signal”, “Died to Save”, “Magic Moment”, “Orange Groove”, “The King’s Son”, “The Ghost”, “The Bet”, “The Break Out”, “Wedding Gift”, “Now and Forever”, “Shackles of Death”, “Girls in the Hood”, “2 Face”, “The Price of Love: Life is Beautiful”, “Fools in Love”, “Games Women Play”, “Hold Me Down”, “Men Do Cry”, “I Feel You”, “My Precious Son”, “My Sister’s Act”, “My Sister My Child”, “Just Me”, “Knowing You”, “It’s Juliet or No One”, “Flying Without Wings”, “Behind Closed Doors”, “Broadway”, “Endless Lies”, “A Night in The Philippines”, “Romeo”, “My Sister My Love”, “Zoza”, “Traumatized”, “Secret Mission”, “The Wolves”, “The Greatest Sacrifice”, “Up to Me”, “Without Apology”, “Supremacy”, “Too Late to Claim”, “Naked Sin”, “Painful World”, “Unbreakable Affair”, “Love Wins”, “Extreme Measure”, “Ghetto Language”, “Married to The Enemy”, “Life Abroad”, “Mamush”, “Hidden Murderer”, “My Little Secret”, “Final Point”, “King of The Town”, “Assunder”, “Blood Stain in Bokodo”, “Before the Vow”, “Divided Attention”, “Efficacy”, “Put it On Me”, “Behind the Plot”, “Wind of Glory”, “Unfinished Business”, “Yahoo Millionaire”, “Try and See”, “Warriors of Satan”, “Twist of Fate”, “Titanic Tussle”, “Ghetto Queen”, “Kolomental”, “One Life”, “Secret Pain”, “Take Me Home”, “Great Ambassadors”, “Look Into My Eyes”, “Last Mission”, “My Drug Brother”, “Lasting Love”, “My Everlasting Love”, “Caught-Up”, “Genevieve”, “A Better Place”, “Double Game”, “After the Vow”, “A Time to Love”, “Fine Things”, “Dear God”, “Endless Madness”, “Black Night in South America”, “Final Tussle”, “Guilty Pleasures”, “Uyai”, “True Colours”, “Wicked Intentions”, “Super Star”, “Sweet Tomorrow”, “Can’t Let Go”, “Before the Rain”, “Bad Blood”, “Tears of A Prince”, “Entanglement”, “Virginity”, “Dangerous Beauty”, “Home in Exile”, “Reloaded”, “Bursting Out”, “Holding Hope”, “Nollywood Hustlers”, “Bent Arrows”, “Save My Love”, “Sacred Lies”, “Last Celebrity”, “Masquerades”, “Kiss and Tell”, “The Entrapped”, “Finding Mercy”, “Kamara’s Tree”, “Lies Men Tell”, “Unguarded”, “30 Days in Atlanta”, “When Love Happens”, “The Department”, “Falling”, “Black Val”, “The Secret Princess”, “Run”, and “Esohe”. Elliot’s credits on TV includes: “One Too Much”, “Saints and Sinners” and the Kenyan soap opera, “Santalal”.
Elliot’s directorial efforts includes: “Edikan”, “Bursting Out”, “Kiss and Tell”, “Finding Mercy”, “Kamara’s Tree”, “Lagos Cougars”, “After the Proposal”, “Unguarded”, “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”, “Hire a Man”, and “Disguise”.
Elliot is married to Victoria Elliot, and together they have four children, born as two set of twins. Elliot contested and won the seat to represent Surulere Constituency of the Lagos State House of Assembly at the 2015 general elections.
