Fatima Faloye

{{short description|American actress}}

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Fatima Faloye{{Audio|Yo-Fatima Faloye.ogg|Listen|help=no}}(born on November 18, 1972) in Harlem, New York City), is of Nigerian and Barbadian descent and studied at Dalton School in New York City as well as New York University. Faloye won the coveted NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1996 for her role as Chantel Tierney in New York Undercover."'Waiting to Exhale' wins big at Image awards." Jet 89(24), April 29, 1996. pp. 58-62. Faloye has also had small roles in the long-running series Law & Order. She has also worked on several short independent films as a producer and is studying to move into the director's chair. Her cousin, Christian Faloye is the Hip Hop recording artist known as Ilacoin.