“Rookie Blue’s” Enuka Okuma Wedding. Engagement Pics & Video!

“Rookie Blue’s” Enuka Okuma Wedding. Engagement Pics & Video!

Beautiful dark-skinned actress of Rookie Blue marries her rainbeau. Exclusive pics inside!

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Oh joy! Anderson Public Relations came through with lovely pictures of Enuka Okuma and her new husband, Joe.  And if by chance, you haven’t heard of the beautiful chocolate actress, let me school you.  There will be no quiz (this time) but I do recommend you take notes.

Enuka is wearing the HAY-ELL out of that hat!

Enuka made her film debut in 1999 as a Parolee in Double Jeopardy starring Tommy Lee Jones and in 2000 appeared alongside Ben Affleck as a cocktail waitress in Reindeer.  In 2009, she landed the role of Officer Angie Riddick in the film Stolen starring John Hamm.

Can you believe her acting career started because she sucked at high school math? As an aside, I can TOTALLY relate–the part of my brain that calculates stuff is completely necrotized.

Back to our Nigerian born starlet.  After discovering math wasn’t the be-all, end-all, she took up acting, and her first on-screen appearance was for a Vancover PSA urging kids to stay in school.  (Priceless irony) After scrapping by those pesky maths, she attended Simon Frasier University, a school for the contemporary arts, and received a Bachelor of Arts in theater.

These days, you can see Enuka on ABC’s Rookie Blue, where she plays character, “Traci Nash.”  Rookie Blue aired new episodes on June 23rd (ABC 10/9c).  Here’s a clip of her goofing off with her co-stars on the set: She’s got a rainbeau love interest in the show, and now has a real-life swirl marriage.  Here’s some exclusive engagement photos I snagged for your viewing pleasure.   African women are so dang stunning, no?

Enuka is wed to musician Joe Gasparin, and live in Los Angeles.  When not on screen or writing, Enuka enjoys vintage shopping, yoga (YOGA!!)  and playing with her pet cat Johnny (she can keep the cat, though.  I’m allegic).  Her publicists pinky promise we’ll get the finished wedding photos, so stay tuned.  In the meantime, take a look at the video of her dishing the deets to Entertainment Tonight:   So tune in or set your DVR’s and support an actress who actually looks black, and finds love on her own terms.

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Well, be sure to let your man know what rock size you want whenever it is you plan on getting married.

Oh I absolutely will do that :) They are a nice couple though!

Christelyn, would you remove my remarks earlier about the ring? This is a beautiful couple. I posted what I was thinking without really thinking. Definitely a thought that I should have kept to myself.

Your wish is my command. ;-)

Enuka is an actress (in my favorite Christmas movie) as the best friend of Mimi Rodger's character... the movie is shown on ABC Family network in December... "The Christmas List."
Enuka's character is "Naomi."

Congrats to the couple. :) I watch Rookie Blue every week, one of the few shows on tv with people of color.

I've never heard of her but I'll look out for her work now. They are a very attractive couple. She's beautiful he's hot. I guess that kind of crushes the theory that only "ugly" WM want BW.

YAY! Thanks Christelyn. I saw Enuka on Sue Thomas F.B. Eye years ago, but haven't watched Rookie Blue yet.

Those companies better know you are a force to be reckoned with :)

congratulation to fellow Afro-Canadian. Glad to see her getting more recognition and bigger tv roles.

Lovely story and video. And yes, Nigerian women (African women in general) are quite stunning.

Yay! They are a beautiful couple :)

Awesome. What a beautiful smile she has. She also seems to have such a lovable care free personality. What a refreshing thing to see from a young black woman in media. I wish we had more representatives such as her. I think it could help us to make major strides in improving our reputation and the self esteem of younger black girls. Hopefully we'll be able to see more and more women like her in media in the future.

Good luck Enuka. I wish you continued and even greater success and much happiness in the future.

Oh I am so please for her i have been following her since i saw her character in Madison it was one of the first interracial couples i saw on TV.

Shes one of those actresses where I know Ive seen her before but just couldnt place it until now. Seems like she has an infectious bubbly personality and obviously quite beautiful as well.

She is gorgeous and I do remember her from "Sue Thomas: F B Eye". I guess she must be a Canadian gal to be featured on ET Canada like that. Oh and he's a cutie as well!

I've never heard of her, but she's very lovely. :)

Congrats to them!

You're right about that. African women are stunning! They are so statuesque. At 5'4 I oftentimes feel like a hobbit when I'm around them.

Hey, did anyone notice that this was on ET CANADA? Not the U.S. version of the show. It's not like I'm drawing any conclusions about the U.S. show, but you know, I've never seen it showcase a beautiful BW that doesn't have Euro features like this, much less happily show a wedding. Canada may not be a paradise of race relations, but I think they may be a bit further ahead of the U.S. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

BTW, way to give them what for at the Anderson Group. They need to know that blowing you off is a serious no-no. Also, congrats to Enuka on her marriage. Her husband is very handsome! You go girl!

That's why I've never heard of my fellow Nigerian actress! You know the US doesn't like showing attractive feminine in shape dark skin black women... especially those in love ... especially those in love with a non-black attractive man.

And yes, us Nigerian women are beautiful. :) She looks like so many of the Nigerian women I know.

Yes, Nigerian girls can be freaking stunning! Since I'm 1/2 Yoruba myself I'm going to agree! My younger sister is stunning and she got all the tall genes. I got my mother's shorty genes and am not very tall at all, but my husband loves me the way I am. :)

Yoruba Girl here! :)

Browncow, since British Columbia is on Washington's northern border we get to see a few Canadians shows on cable televsion here, we get the CBC. Good news too. And yes, they are more swirl friendly when it comes to showing bw/non-bm on shows and commercials.

Note to self. DO NOT piss off Chris!!! LOL LOL. You go girl. BTW..I remember Enuka from "Sue Thomas FBI" on ion Television.

Well, they apologized profusely, and I got what I asked for. See updated post above, complete with, what I wanted in the first place. ;-)

Whoa. You weren't kidding. Very nice update. Promise you you won't have this problem a second time with Anderson.

I never heard of her before now. You would think any publicity is good publicity for a girl like her who seems to be relative unknown. It's not like she's Halle Barry famous yet.. She need to fire her PR agent.

Just spoke with President, Liz Anderson, who I have to say, is a stand-up chick. She was mortified that her people blew us off. She said it won’t happen again.

Did she say you get the interview? or just that the next time you'll get a better response?

Beautiful wedding, wish her and her handsome husband many Blessings! :)

I only started watching Rookie Blue when it appeared last year because I saw that Enuka and Gregory Smith (starred in CW show Everwood) were part of the cast. I wasn't a committed fan of Enuka, but I did remember seeing her in that old Canadian tv show, Fifteen, and remembered her from that, so I was interested in seeing her in another show. But after watching a handful of episodes of Rookie Blue, I found that it didn't draw me in as a viewer, so I stopped watcing it. But from what I did see,I know that Enuka's character was or still is involved with a handsome rainbeau. And from the one episode I saw of this season, he is looking particularly good this season. I kind of hoped that her character and Gregory Smith's character "Dov" would get together when I first started watching because they seemed to have natural chemistry and a good rapport.

Wait. That was her on "Fifteen"?! I loved that show when I was a pre-teen. I used to catch it on Nickelodeon all the time. I just found a YouTube clip of her from the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRCxgLP3T0M

The show was soooo cheesy, but my 11/12 year old self used to eat it up.

Also, as someone who is part Nigerian, I agree with the assertion that Nigerians are stunning. :D

One more comment (I should have watched the video before posting): I love that her wedding colors (the cupcakes, the bridesmaids dresses, etc.) were green and white. Those are the colors of the Nigerian flag.

Yep. I was addicted to that show when it came on on Nickelodeon. That was the good ol' days of Nickelodeon, when the shows were kind of mature for its viewing audience. I still remember Enuka's character as one of the mean girls, lol.

Beautiful woman. Handsome and lucky guy. Wish them all the best! btw, what network does Rookie Blue come on?

I remember her from Madison(tv show) :)

Did they say what happened?

They just blew me off until I left a message and let them know I was calling them out on them putting me off. Then, the flurry of calls followed...
They are apologizing profusely, but I can't help but note that they did this AFTER I made at least seven calls that were unreturned, and most recently was blown off by 22 year-old Ed.

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