Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 06, 1976
Place of Birth
Leipzig, Germany
Credits
76 titles
Maria Simon
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
Roland
Alle Jahre wieder
Kathrin
Wolfsjagd
Sara Jahnke
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy
Jella
Der Zeuge
Reporterin
Gestern waren wir noch Kinder
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
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