Liz Baffoe (born 6 July 1969) is a Ghanaian-German born actress. She is the younger sister of former Ghanaian international footballer

Anthony Baffoe Anthony Baffoe (born 25 May 1965) is a football business manager and former player who is the Deputy General Secretary of the Confederation of African Football. He played as a defender. As the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, Baffoe was born and ra ...

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 Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

Bad Godesberg Bad Godesberg () is a borough () of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 to 1999, while Bonn was the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, most foreign embassies were in Bad Godesberg. Some buildings are still used as br ...

. Her brother is former Ghanaian footballer, football administrator and pundit

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 A drama school, stage school, or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or Academic department, department at a college or university, or a free-standing institution (such as the drama section at the Juilliard School) that ...

of the Theater der Keller in Cologne and in 2001 the

Herbert Berghof Studio The HB Studio (Herbert Berghof Studio) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization offering professional training in the performing arts through classes, workshops, free lectures, theater productions, theater rentals, a theater artist residency prog ...

in New York.

Career

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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 Rudi Carrell (born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar; 19 December 1934 – 7 July 2006) was a Dutch entertainer. Along with famous entertainers such as Johannes Heesters and Linda de Mol, he was one of the most successful Dutch personalities active in ...

'' 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 ''Schloss Einstein'' is a long-running, popular German television series which is designed as a teenage soap opera. It portrays the lives of teenagers in Schloss Einstein (Castle Einstein), a fictional boarding school. The intended audience is 10 ...

'' . She also played the kiosk operator ''Hadiya Wedekind'' in the series

Die Anrheiner ''Die Anrheiner'' is a German television soap opera series, broadcast on WDR-TV since March 21, 1998. The series is set and filmed in Cologne. See also *'' Ein Fall für die Anrheiner'' (2011 – 2014) *List of German television series Th ...

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. Since December 2013, Baffoe has been represented by the management ''agency ONEeins Management'' from Odenthal. Baffoe supports the Respekt! No place for racism. Since 2013, Baffoe has been the patron of Gye Nyame Kids eV. 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. Since 6 April 2018, Liz Baffoe has been selling her own jewellery collection on the channel QVC . 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 Kaiserslautern (; ) is a town in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, 666 kilometers (414 m ...

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 ''Lindenstraße'' (literally "Linden Street") was a long-running German television Drama (film and television), drama series, broadcast by Das Erste. The first episode aired on 8 December 1985 and since then new episodes were broadcast weekly u ...

* 1999:

Der Fahnder ''Der Fahnder'' is a German television crime drama series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985. Plot The first title character of the series was the investigator ...

* 2000:

Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman ''Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman'' (; ''The Manns – Novel of a Century'') is a 2001 German Docudrama-miniseries directed by Heinrich Breloer. The miniseries is divided in three parts and tells the story of the Mann family, a family of famou ...

* 2001: Tatort – Bestien * 2002: Problemzone Mann * 2003:

Im Namen des Gesetzes ''Im Namen des Gesetzes'' () is a German television series. It follows the work of Berlin based criminal police officers and public prosecutors. Plot The series is based on the long-running U.S. television series Law & Order ''Law & ...

* 2008–:

* 2008–2011:

* 2009:

In aller Freundschaft (''In all friendship'') is a German television soap opera that began airing in 1998 every Tuesday. The series follows the staff of the fictional Sachsenklinik hospital in the city of Leipzig. The series is produced by Degeto (a subsidiary of ...

* 2011–2014:

Ein Fall für die Anrheiner Ein or EIN may refer to: Science and technology * Ein function, in mathematics * Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia, a lesion of the uterine lining * Equivalent input noise, of a microphone * European Informatics Network, a 1970s computer netw ...

* 2011: Nachtschicht – Reise in den Tod * 2012:

Verbotene Liebe ''Verbotene Liebe'' (, "Forbidden Love") is a German television soap opera created by Reg Watson for Das Erste. The show was set primarily in the German city of Düsseldorf although, at times, the city of Cologne and the Spanish island of Mall ...

* 2012: * 2016:

Kreuzfahrt ins Glück ''Cruise to Happiness'' (in German: ''Kreuzfahrt ins Glück'') is a German television series. It is a '' Das Traumschiff'' spin-off that follows two wedding planners and the couple that hired them. They are all traveling on the Dream Ship cruis ...

* 2018: Die Füchsin – Spur in die Vergangenheit * 2019: Nachtschicht – Cash & Carry (Krimireihe)

References

External links

Official Website

Liz Baffoe
at ''ONEeins Management'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baffoe, Liz 1969 births German people of Ghanaian descent Living people Ghanaian film actresses German film actresses German stage actresses Actresses from Bonn