Thelma Buabeng (born 31 March 1981 in

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) is a German actress.

Life

Thelma Buabeng grew up with two siblings in Meckenheim (Rhineland), where her family moved to from Ghana in 1984. She passed her high school diploma at the St. Joseph Gymnasium in Rheinbach; She then studied media marketing at the West German Academy of Communications in Cologne. Buabeng began her acting career in 1996 with the theater group "Junge Bühne Brotfabrik" in Bonn. After attending drama school in Cologne's "Theater der Keller" for two years, she moved to Berlin in 2005, where in 2009 she completed her acting training at the Filmschauspielschule Berlin. In 2003, she celebrated her television debut in the ARD series ''

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''. Thereafter, Thelma Buabeng was seen in inter alia, ''

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'' (TV), ' (cinema) and several other scenes. After further film and television work, including in the ZDF multi-part ' (TV), ''bestefreunde'', ' (cinema) and ' (cinema), Thelma Buabeng launched her own comedy project ''Tell Me Nothing From The Horse'' in 2016 in addition to her acting career (formerly ''3 Sistas'' since 2009). Buabeng is seen on various theatrical stages, such as '' Die Schutzbefohlenen'' at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, 2014; ''Meteorites'' at the

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in Berlin, 2016; ''Faust'', Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 2017 and Frank Castorf's ''Les Misérables'' at the Berliner Ensemble.

Filmography (selection)

* 2003:

(4 Episodes, Director: Kerstin Krause) * 2006: Berlin Bohème (8 Episodes) * 2010: Wenn Bäume Puppen tragen (short film Director: Ismail Sahin) * 2011:

– Unter Druck (Director: Hannu Salonen) * 2012:

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– Ihr Kinderlein kommet (Director: Thomas Jauch) * 2012: (Director:

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) * 2013: (Director:

Uli Edel Ulrich "Uli" Edel (; born 11 April 1947) is a German film and television director, best known for his work on films such as ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'', '' Body of Evidence'' and '' The Baader Meinhof Complex.'' His '' Rasputin: Dark Servant of ...

) * 2014: Ein Sommer in Amsterdam (Director: Karola Meeder) * 2015: Dora oder die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Director: Stina Werenfels) * 2014: bestefreunde (Director: Jonas Grosch) * 2014: ... und dann kam Wanda (Director: Holger Haase) * 2015:

– Verbrannt (Director: Thomas Stuber) * 2015: (Director:

Oskar Roehler Oskar Roehler (born 21 January 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg, the son of writers Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among ot ...

) * 2015: (Director: Dietrich Brüggemann) * 2015: Kommissarin Heller – Schattenriss (Regie: Christiane Balthasar) * 2016: Dating Alarm (Director: Holger Haase) * 2016:

– Narben (Director: Torsten C. Fischer) * 2016: – (Director: Lars Becker) * 2017: Jerks. – Hindenburg (Director:

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) * 2017: Am Ruder (Director: Stephan Wagner) * 2017: Unter deutschen Betten (Director: Jan Fehse) * 2017: (Director:

Sebastian Marka Sebastian Marka (born 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a German film director and editor. Life and work Sebastian Marka was born in Geneva in 1978 and grew up in Königsbach-Stein near Karlsruhe. Marka began studying at the Filmakademie Baden-W ...

) * 2018: Echte Bauern singen besser

References

External links

* * Thelma Buabeng at filmportal.de
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