Maria Simon
- Acting
- February 6, 1976 · 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. 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Mädchen in Uniform
- Roland
- Alle Jahre wieder · Kathrin
- Wolfsjagd · Sara Jahnke
- Everyone Is Fucking Crazy · Jella
- Der Zeuge · Reporterin
- Drahá Vivi · Anna Klettmann
- Zwerg Nase · Hanne
- Erzgebirgskrimi · Tanja Rossner
- Curling für Eisenstadt · Petra Glewitz
- A Hidden Life · Resie
- Break-Out to the Unknown · Sarah Schneider
- Über Land · Frieda Mirko
- Loverboy · Anna
- Im Tunnel · Maren Adam
- Das Geständnis · KGB, Producer
- Silvia S.: Blinde Wut · Silvia Schubert
- Murder by the Lake · Verena Garchinger
- Der Geruch von Erde · Ellen Bischoff
- Stadt, Rad, Hund · Self
- Death on the Baltic · Evelyn Kossack
- Zärtlichkeiten im Bus · Self
- Die Tote im Moorwald · Josefine Mehdorn
- Herzversagen · Ellen Roth
- Letzte Spur Berlin · Swantje Holthusen
- Engel der Gerechtigkeit · Sonja Danner
- Frühling · Sonja Feichtmayr
- Kongo · Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
- Es war einer von uns · Johanna Schröder
- Blessed Events · Susa
- Masserberg · Tinka Sanchez
- Civil Courage · Monika Keller
- Romeo und Jutta · Dr.Annette Meerkatz
- The Countess · Helena
- Death in the Eifel · Lona Schanz
- Der Bergdoktor · Ina Lechner
- Fürchte dich nicht · Katrin Bischof
- Der Kriminalist · Bettina Winkler
- Nichts als Gespenster · Ellen
- Not All Were Murderers · Lona Furkert
- Unter anderen Umständen · Rike Kramer
- Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten · Leo Herzog
- Carola Stern - Doppelleben · Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
- ZIBB · Self
- Luther · Hanna
- K3 – Kripo Hamburg · Kathrin Leutgeb
- Fast perfekt verlobt · Nika Kreschninski
- Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet · Andrea Bär
- Good Bye, Lenin! · Ariane
- Distant Lights · Sonja
- Erste Ehe
- Against All Evidence · Stefanie
- Jonathan's Liebe · Nina Buchwald
- Verbotene Küsse · Andrea
- Passing Summer · Johanna
- Mord im Swingerclub · Susanna Bach
- Einsatz in Hamburg · Tanja Schulz
- Amerika · Mädchen mit Kind
- Volle Kanne · Self
- HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin · Biene Virchow
- Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen · Dorkas Schlüter
- Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police · Laura Friedrich
- Die Harald Schmidt Show · Self
- Für alle Fälle Stefanie · Helena Klamerski
- Balko · Marischka Frankovka
- Im Namen des Gesetzes · Lydia Stein
- Ein starkes Team · Stefanie Lentz
- Riverboat · Self
- DAS! · Self
- Goldene Kamera · Self
- NDR Talk Show · Self
- SOKO München · Tamara Lanz
- The Old Fox · Anke Flemming, Katrin Schwab
- Polizeiruf 110 · KHK Olga Lenski, Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
- Scene of the Crime · Sylvia Keller, Lisa Mattern
- German Film Award · Self