Liz Baffoe (born 6 July 1969) is a Ghanaian-German born actress. She is the younger sister of former Ghanaian international footballer Anthony Baffoe who is now the Deputy General Secretary for CAF.
Early life 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 Ghanaian footballer, football administrator and pundit 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.
Career
Baffoe played the role of the Nigerian Mary in the television series Lindenstrasse from episode 518, broadcast on 5 November 1995, to episode 1112 of 25 March 2007. She has also played supporting roles in some German television series and films. Her long-term role in Lindenstrasse in particular gave the impression that Baffoe only spoke broken German, which, however, did not correspond to reality.
Baffoe sings in a soul band and from 1992, she was a background singer in 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 27 January 2013, she was candidate in the VOX telecast Perfect Celebrity Dinner., auf zeitgeistmagazin.com Since December 2013, Baffoe has been represented by the management agency ONEeins Management from Odenthal.
Baffoe supports the Respekt! No place for racism.Liz Baffoe »Respekt! 100 Menschen - 100 Geschichten« Botschafter - Kultur und TV - Liz Baffoe 29 December 2011. Since 2013, Baffoe has been the patron of Gye Nyame Kids eV.Hilfe für Waisenkinder in Ghana, Westfalenpost 2 December 2014, retrieved 21 March 2020. 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 place.
On 1 September 2015, Baffoe opened the fashion label Atinka Ashenso together with the entrepreneur Alexander Leon Diaz., Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Since 6 April 2018, Liz Baffoe has been selling her own jewellery collection on the channel QVC ., auf qvc.de
Since 2021, Liz Baffoe is ambassador of WW. Since November 2021, Baffoe has been part of the guessing team of the SWR television program Ich trage einen großen Namen and since March 2022, she has been part of the guessing team of the SWR television program Sag die Wahrheit.
Personal life Baffoe married Jens Krieger on 1 June 2012. She lived with her family in a small town near Kaiserslautern in the Palatinate, but in 2014 she moved back to Cologne. In the spring of 2015, Baffoe separated from her husband.
Filmography (selected)
1995–2007: Lindenstraße 1999: Der Fahnder 2000: Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman 2001: Tatort – Bestien 2002: Problemzone Mann 2003: Im Namen des Gesetzes 2008–: Schloss Einstein 2008–2011: Die Anrheiner 2009: In aller Freundschaft 2011–2014: Ein Fall für die Anrheiner 2011: Nachtschicht – Reise in den Tod 2012: Verbotene Liebe 2012: 2016: Kreuzfahrt ins Glück 2018: Die Füchsin – Spur in die Vergangenheit 2019: Nachtschicht – Cash & Carry (Krimireihe)
References
External links Official Website Liz Baffoe at ONEeins Management