Liz Baffoe

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Liz Baffoe (born July 6, 1969 in Bad Godesberg , now Bonn ) is a German actress .

Youth and education

Baffoe was born as the youngest daughter of a Ghanaian diplomat and grew up in the diplomatic quarter in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. Her brother is former soccer player and television presenter Anthony Baffoe and actress Rosalind Baffoe is her sister. After graduating from high school in 1992, she trained as a media designer . From 1996 to 1999 she attended the drama school of the Theater der Keller in Cologne and in 2001 the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York .

Act

From episode 518, broadcast on November 5, 1995, to episode 1112 of March 25, 2007, she played the role of the Nigerian Mary in the television series Lindenstrasse . She also played supporting roles in some German television series and films . Her permanent role in Lindenstrasse in particular gave the impression that Liz Baffoe only speaks broken German , which, however, does not correspond to reality.

Baffoe sings in a soul band and from 1992 was a background singer on the Rudi Carrell show Let yourself be surprised for two years .

In October 2006 she took part in the RTL show Dancing on Ice together with Hendryk Schamberger . Since September 2007 she has been in front of the camera in the role of the teacher Changa Miesbach for the tenth season of Schloss Einstein . She also played the kiosk operator Hadiya Wedekind in the series Die Anrheiner from 2008 to 2013 . She also plays this role in the follow-up series Ein Fall für die Anrheiner (from 2011), with Hadiya Wedekind now working as a press photographer. On January 27, 2013, it was candidate in the VOX telecast Perfect Celebrity Dinner . Since December 2013 Liz Baffoe has been represented by the management agency ONEeins Management from Odenthal . As an ambassador, Liz Baffoe supports the Respekt! No place for racism . Baffoe has been the patron of Gye Nyame Kids eV since 2013. The association supports orphans and half-orphans as well as single mothers in Ghana. In August 2014, Baffoe took part in the Sat.1 show Promi Big Brother and came in 9th there. On September 1, 2015 Liz Baffoe opened the fashion label Atinka Ashenso together with the entrepreneur Alexander Leon Diaz. Since April 6, 2018, Liz Baffoe has been selling her own jewelry collection via the channel QVC .

Private

Baffoe has been married since June 1, 2012. In the meantime she lived with her family in a small town near Kaiserslautern in the Palatinate, in 2014 she moved back to Cologne. In the spring of 2015, Baffoe separated from her husband.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Liz Baffoe  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Celebrity Dinner with Sandra Schneiders, Stefan Bockelmann, Jörg Krusche and Liz Baffoe , on zeitgeistmagazin.com
  2. How to do business Günther Klum got Liz around in three minutes. In: express.de. Express , December 18, 2013, accessed August 24, 2014 .
  3. Ambassador - Culture and TV - Liz Baffoe ( memento of February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on respekt.tv
  4. Help for orphans in Ghana , Westfalenpost from December 2, 2014, accessed on March 21, 2020
  5. Actress Liz Baffoe "I dream of my own doctor series". Retrieved March 21, 2020 . , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
  6. ATINKA - jewelry with a symbolic character. Retrieved April 10, 2018 . , on qvc.de
  7. Just married Liz Baffoe said yes. In: express.de. Express, June 19, 2012, accessed August 24, 2014 .
  8. TV star Liz Baffoe shows her yes-man. In: bz-berlin.de. BZ , June 20, 2012, accessed August 24, 2014 .
  9. How's it going, Liz Baffoe? ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), local time from Cologne from August 8, 2014
  10. Liz Baffoe - Marriage Out! Bunte, May 4, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015