Maria Simon
43 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 6, 1976 (age 50)
- Place of birth
- Leipzig, Germany
Biography
Maria Simon (born February 6, 1976) is a German actress.
Simon's German father originally hailed from Leipzig and studied mathematics in Leningrad. There he met Simon's Russian-Jewish mother, Olga, who studied electronics and originally hailed from Kazakhstan. The couple married while studying.
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Maria Simon is the younger sister of actress Susanna Simon, who was born on 23 July 1968, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Maria was born and brought up in the former East Germany, but moved to New York City in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the United Nations, and her sister Dalena Simon. She also has a sister named Alyssa. Simon has four children, the first from a former relationship with the actor Devid Striesow, and three with her ex-husband, the actor Bernd Michael Lade.
After finishing school she moved back to the newly reunited Germany to study acting at the Academy of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin where she received her diploma in 1999.
She won the award for Best Actress for her role in the film Zornige Küsse at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival in 2000. Simon was nominated as the best supporting actress in the 2003 German Film Awards, and was named European Shooting Star (i.e., best newcomer) at the 2004 Berlinale. In the same year she played Polly in Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenoper at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Her TV movie Kleine Schwester was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Awards in 2005.
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Known for
Maria Simon: movies and TV shows
Acting (66)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2024 Alle Jahre wieder
as Kathrin
- 2023 Wolfsjagd
as Sara Jahnke
- 2023
- 2023 Der Zeuge
as Reporterin
- 2023
- 2021 Zwerg Nase
as Hanne
- 2019
- 2019 Curling für Eisenstadt
as Petra Glewitz
- 2019 A Hidden Life
as Resie
- 2018 Break-Out to the Unknown
as Sarah Schneider
- 2017
- 2017 Loverboy
as Anna
- 2017 Im Tunnel
as Maren Adam
- 2015 Das Geständnis
as KGB
- 2015 Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
as Silvia Schubert
- 2014
- 2014 Der Geruch von Erde
as Ellen Bischoff
- 2013 Death on the Baltic
as Evelyn Kossack
- 2012 Die Tote im Moorwald
as Josefine Mehdorn
- 2012 Herzversagen
as Ellen Roth
- 2012
- 2011 Engel der Gerechtigkeit
as Sonja Danner
- 2011
- 2010 Kongo
as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
- 2010 Es war einer von uns
as Johanna Schröder
- 2010 Blessed Events
as Susa
- 2010 Masserberg
as Tinka Sanchez
- 2010 Civil Courage
as Monika Keller
- 2009 Romeo und Jutta
as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
- 2009 The Countess
as Helena
- 2009 Death in the Eifel
as Lona Schanz
- 2008
- 2007 Fürchte dich nicht
as Katrin Bischof
- 2006
- 2006 Nichts als Gespenster
as Ellen
- 2006 Not All Were Murderers
as Lona Furkert
- 2006
- 2006 Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
as Leo Herzog
- 2004 Carola Stern - Doppelleben
as Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
- 2003 Luther
as Hanna
- 2003
- 2003 Fast perfekt verlobt
as Nika Kreschninski
- 2003 Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
as Andrea Bär
- 2003 Good Bye, Lenin!
as Ariane
- 2003 Distant Lights
as Sonja
- 2002
- 2002 Against All Evidence
as Stefanie
- 2001 Jonathan's Liebe
as Nina Buchwald
- 2001 Verbotene Küsse
as Andrea
- 2001 Passing Summer
as Johanna
- 2000 Mord im Swingerclub
as Susanna Bach
- 2000
- 2000 Amerika
as Mädchen mit Kind
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994
- 1978
- 1977
- 1971 Polizeiruf 110 · TV
as KHK Olga Lenski / Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski / Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski / Olga Lenski · 18 episodes
- 1970
Behind the camera (1)
- 2015 Das Geständnis
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (10)
- 2013 Stadt, Rad, Hund
1 episode
- 2013 Zärtlichkeiten im Bus
1 episode
- 2003 ZIBB
1 episode
- 1999 Volle Kanne
1 episode
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show
1 episode
- 1992 Riverboat
2 episodes
- 1991 DAS!
3 episodes
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1979 NDR Talk Show
1 episode
- 1951 German Film Award
1 episode