Benita Bailey

Benita Bailey

Biography

Benita Bailey is an actress, theatre & film maker and lecturer. She studied International Relations and African Studies at the University of Leipzig and in Hong Kong as well as acting in Berlin. She has worked for the UN in New York and for the German government in Beijing and Berlin. She is currently developing her first feature film and, since July 2020, the show #yellit on YT, in which she presents Black artists. In 2023, Bailey founded the black film production company JABESA Films with Jane Chirwa and is a board member of Schwarze Filmschaffende e.V.. She can currently be seen alongside Bastian Pastewka in the comedy "Alles Gelogen", which celebrated its TV premiere on 5 September 2024.

Filmography

@YELLIT! FROM THE MOUNTAIN - WITH CURLY HAIR ARTIST FATIMA YORK (2024): Direction