Emmanuel Fabiyi was born on March 19, 1976 in the town Elephant and Castle London, England. He is the first born of five children a Midwife Eunice and a teacher Anthony Fabiyi, both parents who are Nigerians. After graduating from college, Emmanuel studied Information communication technology at the university of East London, he just wanted to get into the I.T industry as his father wanted him to get into that profession as he thought it would be the best for him. Emmanuel over the years had written screen play for film and television and currently is now creating his own opportunities working on them. He studied drama at the Academy drama school where he worked along side Principal Tim Reynolds, who encouraged him to take his career very seriously, after graduating from the academy drama school, his first paid job was when he featured on CBBC's children's program Prank patrol.He then continued constantly work on a number of shorts films.
He worked along side Holly oaks Jamie Lomas in the movie Eternal life which won a number of awards. Emmanuel Fabiyi as an actor and film maker now creates his own opportunities, his current feature film is to be released in 2017 called consciousness, he took up his directorial debut in 2014 where he shot his first short called redemption a film that reflects on discrimination within the police force.