Nse Ikpe-Etim is a multiple award-winning actress, speaker and advocate for women living with adenomyosis. Nse studied Theatre Arts at the University of Calabar. Her first television appearance was in the family soap Inheritance in 1999.

After her graduation from university, she temporarily left the film industry to pursue her other interests in banking, fashion and food before making a comeback in 2008. She has won the Best Actress in a Drama award at the Africa Magic Viewer's Choice Awards for playing "Nse" in Journey to Self.

More recently Nse featured as one of the leading characters in the sequel to blockbuster movie "King of Boys".