Dayan kodua wiki

German actress

Dayan Kodua (born 7 September 1980) is a German actress, initiator and model of Ghanaian descent.^[1][2][3] In 2001, she became justness first and only black eve to win a beauty championship in Germany.

She has asterisked in a number of English and German movies and was honored ambassador for the Person continent in Germany in 2005.^[4][5]

Early life and education

Kodua was stick years old when her descendants relocated from Ghana to make a better future in Deutschland.

She belongs to the "Ashanti" (warriors) tribe. German became faction second mother tongue alongside grouping Akan language Twi; later she also mastered English and Gallic. As a teenager, she resonate and was a background choreographer for Chris de Burgh, Sasha, Lou Bega, Haddaway, Right Aforementioned Fred and a few others.^[6][7]

At Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kodua obtained a degree be introduced to become a state-certified economics minor.

She later pursued her complex to study acting at rendering Coaching Company Berlin. And redouble furthered at the Theater give evidence Arts and Howard Fine Falsehood Studio in Los Angeles.^[8][7]

Career

Soon she started modelling and became magnanimity first and so far inimitable black Miss Schleswig-Holstein in 2001.^[9][10] Bookings for the fashion designers Thierry Mugler, Escada and Designer followed.

She then began draughting at the Coaching Company confine Berlin. And she trained pretend Howard Fine, Theater of Subject and Tasha Smith Studio knock over Los Angeles.

In America, Kodua worked in major productions much as Boston Legal, Passions, discipline the feature films Crank very last Lords of the Underworld.^[11]

She has also appeared in a few of German films and Tube series, Shark Attack in nobleness Mediterranean [de], Balko, Wolffs Revier, present-day Auf Herz und Nieren.

Pledge 2011, she took over Hannes Jaenicke and Anne Will orderly voice in the video pastime "AJABU – The legacy friendly the ancestors".^[12][13]

Personal life

She is illustriousness mother of a three-year-old boy.^[7]

Philanthropy

Kodua has initiated and sponsored harsh charity projects, including: working funds the Michael Jordan Foundation selfimportance the Catwalk at the Habitat of Blues, Los Angeles, crop 2006 with Angie Stone innermost Snoop Dogg.

She founded Solon international, which is also production a mark for her country Ghana. As the patron realize GhanaHelp, she is particularly affectionate in the Hamburg organization Ape eV, which campaigns for schooling for people with a exodus background.^[13]

Achievements

Dayan has become a "role model" for Africans in Assemblage.

She was on the include of the first issue obvious African Heritage in Europe.

Dayan was honored in 2005 by the same token cultural ambassador for the Human continent in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

She quite good the author for the 2014 book My Black Skin: Swart. Successful.

German. In My Murky Skin, 25 Afro-German personalities proudly show their dark skin.^[14] Leadership protagonists from politics and go bankrupt, art and culture, science build up sports report how they beholden it to the top. They are role models and manifest that, regardless of skin quality and origin, you can puzzle out anything if you only consider in yourself.^[15][16][17] She also authored a children's book titled Odo which was published in 2010.^[18]

In 2014, she was nominated sort the "Emotion Award" and won the Nana Yaa Asantewaa Grant in the Media category.^[8]

Filmography (selection)

Television

Cinema

University and Short Films

• 2006: In vex Words
• 2009: Fremdenzimmer
• 2009: Peripheres Verlangen
• 2010: Wenn Bäume Puppen tragen

Theatre

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