Dennenesch Zoudé

Dennenesch Zoudé (born 14 December 1966) is a German actress.[1][2][3] Zoudé is principally employed in television. She has been married since October 2009 to Italian film director Carlo Rola and lives in Berlin and Monte Carlo.

Dennenesch Zoudé
Born(1966-12-14)December 14, 1966
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
NationalityGerman
OccupationActress
Years active1986 — present
WebsiteDennenesch Zoudé

Life

Dennenesch Zoudé was born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. When she was two (1968) her family moved to West Berlin, Germany. After finishing High School she trained to be a business correspondent, as was her parents' wish. Afterwards she started working as a secretary in a contracting firm in Berlin. Later, she trained to become an actress at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. Additionally, Zoudé took singing lessons with Cullen Maiden and Veronika Fischer.

From 1996 to 2000 Dennenesch Zoudé was is a relationship with author and TV presenter Roger Willemsen. In 2001 she started dating Carlo Rola, a German director, producer and screen writer. They got married on October 6th 2009 in New York City, which was also Rola's birthday. In 2016 Carlo Rola died of sudden cardiac death.

Since February 24th 2020 Zoudé is a board member of Deutsche Filmakademie (The German Film Academy).

Work

Zoudé trained to be an actress at the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York City. In addition to this, she took singing lessons with Cullen Maiden and Veronika Fischer. Dennenesch Zoudè gained her first acting experience in a play in 1986 in a principal role with her theater debut in Lysistrata. She acted in the Hemingway piece The Fifth Column at the Ernst Deutsch Theater. In 2002 and 2003 she was the love interest in the Berlin Everyman Festival in Jedermann by Brigitte Grothum.

She is known today from numerous TV and cinema productions:

  • Established as the first dark-skinned TV detective in the German TV series Polizeiruf 110.
  • The series Gegen den Wind (Against the Wind) provided her breakthrough in Germany.
  • Her later films, 2008 and 2009, are Meine Heimat Afrika (Africa, My Homeland) and Vergiss nie, dass ich dich liebe (Never forget that I love you).

Social involvement

Zoudé is involved in the rights of the black population in Germany and in Africa; at the same time, she is the special ambassador for the United Buddy Bears.[4][5]

References
  1. Lambrecht, Kathi (8 January 2011). "Dennenesch Zoudé über ihr Deutschsein". B.Z. (in German). Berlin, Germany: Ullstein-Verlag. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  2. Rosendahl, Iris (17 November 2010). "Hardy Krüger nach 20 Jahren wieder vor der Kamera". Bild. Berlin, Germany: Axel Springer AG. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  3. Varnhorn, Beate (2008). Das grosse Lexikon der Vornamen. Wissen Media Verlag. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-577-07694-4.
  4. United Buddy Bears Special Ambassador Dennenesch Zoudé
  5. Jadi Campell: "The United Buddy Bears have a Special Ambassador: the actress Dennenesch Zoudé."
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