Maria Simon

Born: 1976-02-06 in Leipzig, Germany

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2024

Alle Jahre wieder as Kathrin

2023

Gestern waren wir noch Kinder as Anna Klettmann
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy as Jella
Wolfsjagd as Sara Jahnke
Der Zeuge as Reporterin

2021

Zwerg Nase as Hanne

2019

A Hidden Life as Resie
Erzgebirgskrimi as Tanja Rossner
Curling für Eisenstadt as Petra Glewitz

2018

Break-Out to the Unknown as Sarah Schneider

2017

Über Land as Frieda Mirko
Loverboy as Anna
Im Tunnel as Maren Adam

2015

Das Geständnis as KGB
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut as Silvia Schubert

2014

Murder by the Lake as Verena Garchinger
Der Geruch von Erde as Ellen Bischoff

2013

Stadt, Rad, Hund as Self
Zärtlichkeiten im Bus as Self
Death on the Baltic as Evelyn Kossack

2012

Letzte Spur Berlin as Swantje Holthusen
Herzversagen as Ellen Roth
Die Tote im Moorwald as Josefine Mehdorn

2011

Frühling as Sonja Feichtmayr
Engel der Gerechtigkeit as Sonja Danner

2010

Masserberg as Tinka Sanchez
Civil Courage as Monika Keller
Es war einer von uns as Johanna Schröder
Kongo as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
Blessed Events as Susa

2009

The Countess as Helena
Romeo und Jutta as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
Death in the Eifel as Lona Schanz

2008

Der Bergdoktor as Ina Lechner

2007

Fürchte dich nicht as Katrin Bischof

2006

Der Kriminalist as Bettina Winkler
Unter anderen Umständen as Rike Kramer
Nichts als Gespenster as Ellen
Not All Were Murderers as Lona Furkert
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten as Leo Herzog

2004

Carola Stern - Doppelleben as Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern

2003

ZIBB as Self
Good Bye, Lenin! as Ariane
Luther as Hanna
K3 – Kripo Hamburg as Kathrin Leutgeb
Distant Lights as Sonja
Fast perfekt verlobt as Nika Kreschninski
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet as Andrea Bär

2002

Against All Evidence as Stefanie
Erste Ehe

2001

Jonathan's Liebe as Nina Buchwald
Passing Summer as Johanna
Verbotene Küsse as Andrea

2000

Einsatz in Hamburg as Tanja Schulz
Amerika as Mädchen mit Kind
Mord im Swingerclub as Susanna Bach

1995

Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
Balko as Marischka Frankovka
Für alle Fälle Stefanie as Helena Klamerski

1994

Ein starkes Team as Stefanie Lentz
Im Namen des Gesetzes as Lydia Stein

1992

Riverboat as Self

1991

DAS! as Self

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self

1979

NDR Talk Show as Self

1978

SOKO München as Tamara Lanz

1977

The Old Fox as Anke Flemming

1971

Polizeiruf 110 as KHK Olga Lenski

1970

Scene of the Crime as Sylvia Keller

1951

German Film Award as Self