Carey Andrew-Jaja

Biography

While shooting »Things Fall Apart«, the young man is studying medicine at the University of Ibadan. Perhaps there is this one moment in his life when he asks himself which way he wants to go, whether he wants to be a doctor or an actor?!

He graduates in 1973 and immigrates to the United States with his wife Lorna two years later. They settled in Hampton Township, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There he completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH).

The couple then had three children and Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja went on to have an amazing career. He is known for one very special thing: for every newborn he accompanies on its way into life, he s...