She is perhaps the best-known American in Germany: entertainer Gayle Tufts. Raised in Brockton, Massachusetts—her mother was a supermarket cashier and her father a bartender—she had her first big moment on stage as a child. Later, she fell in love with Berlin, and she has now lived there for more than 30 years. Partly, but not solely, because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term in office, she applied for German citizenship in 2017.

KNOWN FOR

ZIBB
2007
Volle Kanne
2002
DAS!
2008
NDR Talk Show
2006
Kölner Treff
2008
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
2006
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2021
Riverboat
2005
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
2013
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
2018
3 nach 9
2025
Genial daneben
2005

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
45
2025
Das Gipfeltreffen
as Self
2025
3 nach 9
as Self
2022
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
as Self
2021
Wer weiß denn sowas?
as Self
2020
Talk aus Berlin
as Self
2020
Abendshow
as Self
2019
Dinner Party - Der Late-Night-Talk
as Self
2019
Die NDR Quizshow
as Self
2018
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
as Self
2018
Jede Antwort zählt
as Self
2018
Was geht Hesse?!
as Self
2017
Kölner Sommer-Treff
as self
2016
Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden
as Brenda McAndrew
2016
Das NRW Duell
as Self
2016
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
as Self
2014
30 Favoriten
as Self
2013
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
as Self
2013
Stadt, Rad, Hund
as Self
2013
Inka!
as Self
2012
So gesehen – Talk am Sonntag
as Self
2010
Deutschland für Einsteiger
as Host
2010
Dickes B
as Self
2008
Gayle Tufts and Guests - Real Life & White Christmas
as Hauptrolle
2008
Kölner Treff
as Self
2008
Menschen der Woche
as Self
2008
DAS!
as Self
2008
Kult am Sonntag
as herself
2008
Thadeusz
as self
2008
Ladies Night
as self
2007
ZIBB
as Self
2006
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
2006
NDR Talk Show
as Self
2005
Genial daneben
2005
Riverboat
as Self
2005
Menschen bei Maischberger
as Self
2005
Im Dialog
as self
2004
Leute am Donnerstag
as herself
2004
Im Palais
as Self
2003
Tietjen und Bommes
as Self
2003
Blond am Freitag
as self
2002
Popclub
as herself
2002
Volle Kanne
as Self
1998
Zimmer frei!
as Self
1997
Quatsch Comedy Club
as Self
1996
Deathline
as Marion