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Maria Simon
Actor, ProducerBorn February 6, 1976 (48 years)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2024 | Alle Jahre wieder · as Kathrin |
| 2023 | Wolfsjagd · as Sara Jahnke |
| 2023 | Everyone is F*cking Crazy (TV Series) · as Jella |
| 2023 | Der Zeuge · as Reporterin |
| 2022 | Yesterday We Were Still Children (TV Series) · as Anna Klettmann |
| 2021 | Zwerg Nase · as Hanne |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life · as Resie |
| 2019 | Erzgebirge Crime Story (TV Series) · as Tanja Rossner |
| 2019 | Curling for Eisenstadt · as Petra Glewitz |
| 2017 | Aufbruch ins Ungewisse · as Sarah Schneider |
| 2017 | Über Land (TV Series) · as Frieda Mirko |
| 2017 | Loverboy · as Anna |
| 2016 | Im Tunnel · as Maren Adam |
| 2015 | Das Geständnis · as Kgb |
| 2015 | Silvia S.: Blinde Wut · as Silvia Schubert |
| 2014 | Murder by the Lake (TV Series) · as Verena Garchinger |
| 2014 | Der Geruch von Erde · as Ellen Bischoff |
| 2013 | Tod an der Ostsee · as Evelyn Kossack |
| 2012 | Herzversagen · as Ellen Roth |
| 2012 | Letzte Spur Berlin (TV Series) · as Swantje Holthusen |
| 2011 | Die Tote im Moorwald · as Josefine Mehdorn |
| 2011 | Frühling (TV Series) · as Sonja Feichtmayr |
| 2011 | Mörderisches Wespennest · as Junge Frau |
| 2010 | Kongo · as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler |
| 2010 | Es war einer von uns · as Johanna Schröder |
| 2010 | Glückliche Fügung · 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 |
| 2008 | Death in the Eifel · as Lona Schanz |
| 2008 | Der Bergdoktor (2008) (TV Series) · as Ina Lechner |
| 2007 | Fürchte dich nicht · as Katrin Bischof |
| 2006 | Der Kriminalist (TV Series) · as Bettina Winkler |
| 2006 | Nothing But Ghosts · as Ellen |
| 2006 | Nicht alle waren Mörder · as Lona Furkert |
| 2006 | In Other Circumstances (TV Series) · as Rike Kramer |
| 2006 | Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten · as Leo Herzog |
| 2004 | Kleine Schwester · as Katrin Rubakow |
| 2003 | Luther · as Hanna |
| 2003 | Distant Lights · as Sonja |
| 2003 | Fast perfekt verlobt · as Nika Kreschninski |
| 2003 | Good Bye Lenin! · as Ariane |
| 2003 | Spur & Partner (TV Series) · as Eva Hermann |
| 2002 | Against All Evidence · as Stefanie |
| 2001 | Jonathans Liebe · as Nina Buchwald |
| 2001 | Passing Summer · as Johanna |
| 2000 | Zornige Küsse · as Lea Hauser |
| 2000 | Einsatz in Hamburg (TV Series) · as Tanja Schulz |
| 1999 | Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz (TV Series) · as Martha Cesnik |
| 1998 | Helicops (TV Series) · as Biene Virchow |
| 1997 | Dr. Sommerfeld – Neues vom Bülowbogen (TV Series) · as Dorkas Schlüter |
| 1997 | alphateam (TV Series) · as Marie Müller |
| 1996 | Alarm for Cobra 11 (TV Series) · as Laura Friedrich |
| 1995 | Für alle Fälle Stefanie (TV Series) · as Helena Klamerski |
| 1995 | Balko (TV Series) · as Marischka Frankovka |
| 1994 | Im Namen des Gesetzes (TV Series) · as Lydia Stein |
| 1994 | Ein starkes Team (TV Series) · as Stefanie Lentz |
| 1978 | SOKO 5113 (TV Series) · as Tamara Lanz |
| 1977 | The Old Fox (TV Series) · as Anke Flemming |
| 1971 | Police Call 110 (TV Series) · as Hauptkommissarin Olga Lenski |
| 1970 | Tatort (TV Series) · as Sabine Gerber |