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Woman Crush Wednesday
There’s no better way to ring in the first official Hump Day of summer 2021 than by kicking back to read about our newest Woman Crush Wednesday! This week, we’re celebrating an amazing actress and comedian who has been putting in consistently wonderful work throughout the past two decades. She deserves our recognition and support, so make sure to get ready to become a fan if you aren’t one already and give it up for her, your WCW, the magnificent MaameYaa Boafo!
WHO’S THAT GAL: MaameYaa Boafo
WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: Boafo is set to star as Rhonda in the upcoming Disney+ Original mystery adventure show The Mysterious Benedict Society, which premieres on the platform this Friday, June 25th. Based on Trenton Lee Stewart’s young adult book series of the same name, The Mysterious Benedict Society revolves around four orphans, each with their own unique skill, who are summoned to a boarding school known as the Institute by an eccentric benefactor who wants them to stop a plot that may have big consequences on a global level.
In addition to Boafo, the show features names like Tony Hale, Kristen Schaal, Ryan Hurst, and Seth Carr. With a cast as talented as this one, it’s no wonder that the show is already being tapped as a title to watch this month by publications like Newsweek, USA Today, Forbes, and more. Make sure to see what the hype is about by catching Boafo and the rest of the cast and crew’s great work by streaming The Mysterious Benedict Society as soon as it drops this week, only on Disney+.
WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER BEFORE: Boafo’s professional onscreen career in 2012, when she acted in two short drama films, Tied & True and Azure II. Over the next few years, she worked on other short films like Asa, A Beautiful Girl and When It All Falls Down before making the leap to television, appearing in an episode of CBS political drama series Madam Secretary in 2014, as the lead of Ghanian romantic-comedy An African City the same year, as a small recurring role in animated sci-fi series Deadstar from 2014 to 2015, and as a lead role in comedy-drama Thru25 from 2013 to 2018.
Following a 2015 feature film debut in mystery comedy-drama The Family Fang, Boafo began taking over screens big and small, racking up credits in feature films like 2017 drama Where is Kyra?, short films like 2016 drama New York, I Love You, 2016 drama Olive, 2017 animated drama The Blue Car, and 2017 drama Ibrahim, and in shows like The Blacklist, The Mysteries of Laura, Conversating While Black, Beyond Complicated, Iron Fist, Chicago Med, and Theater Close-Up.
Most recently, the actress has had notable recurring roles that include Briana Johnson in NBC legal drama series Bluff City Law in 2019, and Zainab in Hulu comedy-drama Ramy in 2020. With this fantastic filmography accumulated over the years and showing no signs of slowing down, we are sure that Boafo has many more successful years of acting and impactful work ahead of her, and we can’t wait to see all that she accomplishes in the future.
WHERE YOU’LL SEE HER AGAIN: Luckily, you won’t have to wait too much longer to see more from Boafo. The actress is set to star in a sci-fi short film called Exposure, which is currently in post-production and set for a 2022 release.
To keep up with the actress in the meantime, make sure to follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and to check out her website.
