Biography

Elfi Fiegert is an Afro-German film actor who became famous as a child actor for playing the lead role in the film Toxi (1952) filmed when she was five years old. This was followed in 1955 with the film The Dark Star which has erroneously been described as sequel.

Elfie did not receive a credit for a role in Toxi. She was described as playing herself. The publicity for the film suggested that the story of the film reflected Elfie's own origins, and she came to use the stage name Toxi. The name Toxi also became widely used as shorthand in the German media when referring to Afro-Germans and their social condition.

In 1955, after the film Toxi, she was cast again in a leading role in " Der dunkle Stern" (The Dark Star). Fiegert portrayed a young mixed-race child who is bullied at school because of her skin color and finds happiness in the world of the circus. However, the child actress was never destined for a major career.

At the age of 18, she married in 1964 the Nigerian student Christopher Nwako in Munich. In 1965 they had a son - Okwudili John Nwako. After his birth they divorced, and she resumed her acting career.

Her mother, a doctor from Freising who later emigrated to the USA, placed the child in the care of a children's home. She was eventually adopted by the Fiegert couple, originally from Silesia.