[1] Thelma Buabeng grew up with two siblings in Meckenheim (Rhineland), where her family moved to from Ghana in 1984.
She passed her high school diploma at the St. Joseph Gymnasium in Rheinbach; She then studied media marketing at the West German Academy of Communications in Cologne.
Buabeng began her acting career in 1996 with the theater group "Junge Bühne Brotfabrik" in Bonn.
Thereafter, Thelma Buabeng was seen in inter alia, Der Kriminalist (TV), The Adventures of Huck Finn [de] (cinema) and several other scenes.
Buabeng is seen on various theatrical stages, such as Die Schutzbefohlenen at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, 2014; Meteorites at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, 2016; Faust, Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 2017 and Frank Castorf's Les Misérables at the Berliner Ensemble.