Biography:

Elfriede (Elfie) Fiegert was born in 1946 to a white German mother and an African American father who had been in the US military. Her mother placed her in an orphanage. Fiegert later found out that her mother had been a doctor in Freising and had emigrated to the United States soon after her birth. After his tour of duty in Germany, her African-American father was transferred to Korea. 

In 1948, Fiegert was adopted by a white German couple living in Mark Schwaben, Bavaria. In 1951, she was cast in the leading child’s role in Robert A. Stemmle’s Toxi and became known throughout West Germany with the release of the film.

Fiegert continued getting small roles until 1964, when she married a Nigerian student in Munich who forbade her from acting in films. A few years later, she returned to film and television acting after getting divorced. She also appeared in documentaries on the US television networks CBS and NBC.

In 1986, a newspaper article reported that Elfriede Fiegert had remarried, had lived in Mallorca for nine years, and rarely visited Germany. Her current whereabouts are unknown.