Zimran Clottey is a Ghanaian actor, writer, musician, film director[1] and a teacher,[2] popularly known as "Aluta" which was his name in the TV series Things We Do for Love. He is married with seven children; two are twins. He started acting at the age of six in Children's Own, a TT programme on Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) hosted by the late Tina Moses in the 1980s.