| Name |
Tigist Selam |
| Height |
5 ft 4 in |
| Naionality |
German |
| Date of Birth |
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| Place of Birth |
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| Famous for |
Acting |
Born to an Ethiopian mother and a German father, Tigist Selam, enjoyed the diverse experience of growing up in Nigeria, Argentina and foremost Germany. At a very young age, she started her classical training in ballet, music and later on in theater. Her multiple talents allowed her to attend the prestigious Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands, a school for the gifted in Germany. She continued her passion for the performing arts, while graduating in International Relations at San Francisco State University followed by a Master's in Communication, Culture and Society at the internationally renown Goldsmith's University of London, where she wrote about film, music and style.
In 2009, Tigist returned to New York City where she met the award winning writer, director and producer Nelson George (Good Hair), who asked her to write and act in her first feature film called 'Left Unsaid', which premiered at HBO's American Black Film Festival in 2010. The same year, Tigist was officially selected as the face of Ethiopia's leading lifestyle magazine, 'Tadias' and has interviewed prominent Ethiopians along with pioneering filmmaker Haile Gerima. In 2011, Nelson George asked her to be the lead in his international feature film under the working title 'Migration(s)' alongside Chris Rock, Melvin Van Peebles, Roger Guenveur Smith, Saul Williams and many more which is currently in production.
In January of 2012, she has been selected as an official board member of Ethiopia Reads, which aspires to create a reading culture in Ethiopia one book at a time and was previously honored with the CNN Hero award. Tigist has appeared in numerous films, documentaries, books, music videos, magazines and commercials as an actor, writer and activist internationally.
