Nancy Mensah-Offei

Nancy Mensah-Offei was born in 1989 in Ghana and studied drama at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. In 2012, she made her début in Verrücktes Blut (Mad Blood – directed by Volker Schmidt) at Garage X. Other appearances at the Rabenhoftheater and at Rosenburg Castle followed during her studies. Nancy has also been seen in the popular German-language crime series Tatort (Crime Scene) as well as in Schlawiner (Scoundrels). For her portrayal of Lila in the Dschungel Wien production SchwarzWeißLila (BlackWhitePurple), she was awarded the STELLA-Darstellender.Kunst.Preis as Best Leading Actor (f) in 2016. In 2019, Nancy made a guest appearance at TAG and at the Akademietheater in Vienna and was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim from 2018 until 2020. She has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Münchner Kammerspiele since 2020.