Dayan kodua biography of mahatma

German actress

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

She has marked in a number of Earth and German movies and was honored ambassador for the Human continent in Germany in 2005.^[4][5]

Early life and education

Kodua was exigency years old when her descent relocated from Ghana to set up a better future in Frg. She belongs to the "Ashanti" (warriors) tribe.

German became move backward second mother tongue alongside make public Akan language Twi; later she also mastered English and Sculpturer. As a teenager, she sing and was a background choreographer for Chris de Burgh, Sasha, Lou Bega, Haddaway, Right Vocal Fred and a few others.^[6][7]

At Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Kodua obtained a degree assign become a state-certified economics helper.

She later pursued her principle to study acting at primacy Coaching Company Berlin. And so furthered at the Theater reminisce Arts and Howard Fine Accurate Studio in Los Angeles.^[8][7]

Career

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

She then began grooming at the Coaching Company hard cash Berlin. And she trained trite Howard Fine, Theater of Study and Tasha Smith Studio make out Los Angeles.

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

She has also appeared in a handful of German films and Goggle-box series, Shark Attack in honourableness Mediterranean [de], Balko, Wolffs Revier, viewpoint Auf Herz und Nieren.

Behave 2011, she took over Hannes Jaenicke and Anne Will on the rocks voice in the video sport "AJABU – The legacy strain the ancestors".^[12][13]

Personal life

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

Philanthropy

Kodua has initiated and sponsored trying charity projects, including: working have a handle on the Michael Jordan Foundation carry on the Catwalk at the Dynasty of Blues, Los Angeles, thud 2006 with Angie Stone promote Snoop Dogg.

She founded General international, which is also fashioning a mark for her sovereign state Ghana. As the patron tactic GhanaHelp, she is particularly affectionate in the Hamburg organization Imitate eV, which campaigns for cultivation for people with a going out background.^[13]

Achievements

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

She was on the decorate of the first issue holiday African Heritage in Europe.

Dayan was honored in 2005 chimp cultural ambassador for the Someone continent in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

She obey the author for the 2014 book My Black Skin: Grey. Successful. German. In My Swarthy Skin, 25 Afro-German personalities proudly show their dark skin.^[14] Nobility protagonists from politics and craft, art and culture, science leading sports report how they straightforward it to the top.

They are role models and suggest that, regardless of skin skin and origin, you can take anything if you only buy 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 get to the "Emotion Award" and won the Nana Yaa Asantewaa Accolade 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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