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Bettinah Tianah

Ugandan television personality, actress and model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ58099869 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bettinah Tianah (born Betty Nassali; 10 November 1993) is a Ugandan television personality, actress, model, and fashionista. She is known for hosting television programs like Youth Voice, Be My Date, and The Style Project. She also played a lead role (Rhona) in The Hostel television series.

Career

At the age of 15, Tianah started working at NBS Television as the host of Youth Voice. She later hosted a matchmaking television show called Be My Date in 2015 on NTV Uganda, replacing Anita Fabiola, and has hosted a fashion show called The Style Project from 2017 to March 2022 when she resigned to concentrate on her own business BT Beauty Uganda. Tianah landed her first acting role as Rhona, a "bad girl" on the Ugandan television series The Hostel in its fourth and last season.

Tianah hosted the red carpet event at the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA) Convention in Washington D.C., becoming the first Ugandan to host the event. She is also a model, having signed with Creative Industries Group in 2017. She held her first photoshoot in Paris.

She later opened up her own company known as BT Beauty Uganda

Personal life

Tianah holds a degree in journalism from Cavendish University.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bettinah Tianah” is ugandan television personality, actress and model. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bettinah, Tianah and Ugandan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2015, 2017, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-11-10. For this dossier, Bettinah, Tianah and Ugandan is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q58099869. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2015, 2017 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bettinah Tianah” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.