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Marianne Sägebrecht

Actor, Additional Credits
Born August 27, 1945 (79 years)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945, Starnberg, Bavaria) is a German actress, most famous for her appearance in the movies Sugarbaby, Bagdad Café, and The War of the Roses.

This Rubenesque character player with a heart-shaped face and child-like features began her career as a leading producer and performer of Germany's alternative theater/cabaret scene. The eclectic background of Marianne Sägebrecht included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the "mother of Munich's sub-culture" as producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with her troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder in which she essayed the role of a delicate prostitute, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director put her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then created the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985) especially for her.

American films beckoned as well and Sägebrecht was often cast in roles tailored to her unique abilities. Paul Mazursky reworked the part of a teutonic masseuse for her in Moon over Parador (1988) while Danny DeVito tailored the part of the German housekeeper for a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses (1989). Returning to Germany, she shone as the timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the USA in 1995). Sägebrecht headlined the black comedy as an unhappy wife whose straying husband plots her death in Mona Must Die (1994) and had small supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998).

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Bagdad Cafe
  • Rosalie Goes Shopping
  • Sugar Baby
  • The Swing
Known For
  • Bagdad Cafe
  • The War of the Roses
  • Dust Devil
  • Rosalie Goes Shopping
  • Sugar Baby
  • The Ogre
  • Left Luggage
  • Frau Holle
  • Omamamia
  • Pettson and Findus: A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship
  • Pettersson und Findus 2 - Das schönste Weihnachten überhaupt
  • Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
  • A Whole Life
  • Erik & Erika
  • Without Family
  • All Men Are Mortal
  • Die Mucklas ... und wie sie zu Pettersson und Findus kamen
  • Spanish Fly
  • Private Lies
  • Am Ende siegt die Liebe
  • Thanksgivin', die nachtblaue Stadt
  • Beer Royal
  • Soleil
  • Il piccolo lord

Filmography

2024
2023
A Whole Life · as Ahnl
2022
2019
Schmucklos · as Oma Gerti Schmuck
2018
Beer Royal (TV Series) · as Rosa Seidl
2018
2018
Erik & Erika · as Schwester Sigberta
2016
2014
The Circle · as Erika Rapp
2014
2012
2012
Omamamia · as Oma Marguerita
2012
A Deal with Adele · as Edeltraud Staller
2010
Conference of Animals · as Ma'besa Flusspferd
2009
So ein Schlamassel · as Tante Sarah Silberschatz
2008
Frau Holle · as Frau Holle
2008
Immer Wirbel um Marie · as Marie Meyer
2007
Bezaubernde Marie · as Marie Meyer
2004
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf · as Marga Engel
2003
Großglocknerliebe · as Anneliese
2003
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut · as Marga Engel
2001
2001
Private Lies · as Betty
2000
2000
Without Family (TV Series) · as Mère Barberin
2000
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord · as Fräulein Klara
2000
Without Family · as Mère Barberin
2000
Am Ende siegt die Liebe · as Anna Linke
2000
Augsburg Puppetchest 1948 (TV Series) · as Lukulla - Die Hofkrähe
1999
Ganz unten, ganz oben · as Elli Schulze
1999
1999
1998
Spanish Fly · as Rosa
1998
In aller Freundschaft (TV Series) · as Helga Schulze
1998
Left Luggage · as Mrs. Silberschmidt
1998
Eine Frau nach Maß · as Margret
1997
Soleil · as Tata Jeannette
1997
Lorenz im Land der Lügner · as Tante Martha
1997
Johnny · as Cast
1996
Il piccolo lord · as Klara
1996
The Ogre · as Frau Netta
1995
All Men Are Mortal · as Annie
1995
1994
Inspector Rex (TV Series) · as Tanja Kraus
1994
Erotique · as Hilde (segment 'taboo Parlor')
1994
Mona Must Die · as Mona Von Snead
1993
Mr. Bluesman · as Emma
1992
Dust Devil · as Dr. Leidzinger
1990
Martha et moi · as Martha
1989
1989
Rosalie Goes Shopping · as Rosalie Greenspace
1988
Moon Over Parador · as Magda
1987
Bagdad Cafe · as Jasmin Münchgstettner
1985
Sugar Baby · as Marianne
1984
Ein irres Feeling · as Alfa's Mother
1984
1983
The Swing · as Tandlerin
1981
The Love Boat (DE) (TV Series) · as Sister Magdalena
1981
C.O.D. · as Freda (as Barbara Hermani)
1980
Anderland (TV Series) · as Verkäuferin
1978
SOKO 5113 (TV Series) · as Frieda
1973
Sesame Street (German) (TV Series) · as Momi

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