1945-08-27 ( 79 years old ) in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
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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Silence
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Schmucklos
2019-11-21
Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
2018-10-05
Erik & Erika
2018-02-03
Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
2016-11-03
Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus
2014-10-12
The Circle
2014-09-18
Omamamia
2012-11-01
Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
2012-01-11
So ein Schlamassel
2010-01-29
Frau Holle
2008-12-25
Immer Wirbel um Marie
2008-10-17
Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
2007-04-20
Bezaubernde Marie
2007-03-23
Charlotte und ihre Männer
2005-01-01
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
2004-12-28
Großglocknerliebe
2004-06-04
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
2003-01-01
Marga Engel schlägt zurück
2001-03-14
Scheidung auf amerikanisch
2001-02-28
Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
2001-01-01
Without Family
2000-12-12
Am Ende siegt die Liebe
2000-04-14
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
2000-01-02
Santa's Secretary
1999-12-22
Ganz unten, ganz oben
1999-12-17
Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
1999-05-28
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
1999-02-03
Spanish Fly
1998-09-10
Left Luggage
1998-03-30
Eine Frau nach Maß
1998-03-05
And Suddenly Everything Was Different
1997-12-30
Soleil
1997-06-11
Lorenz im Land der Lügner
1997-04-10
The Little Lord
1996-12-18
The Ogre
1996-09-12
Katrin und Wladimir
1996-04-05
All Men Are Mortal
1995-11-17
Luise knackt den Jackpot
1995-01-01
Beauville
1995-01-01
Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
1994-12-16
Erotique
1994-05-14
Mona Must Die
1994-05-12
Mr. Bluesman
1993-04-01
The Milky Life
1993-02-23
Dust Devil
1992-07-11
Martha and I
1990-09-01
The War of the Roses
1989-12-08
Rosalie Goes Shopping
1989-11-09
Moon Over Parador
1988-09-09
One Day
1988-01-22
Bagdad Cafe
1987-11-12
Crazy Boys - A handful of pleasure
1987-02-26
Herz mit Löffel
1987-01-01
Sugarbaby
1985-06-28
Ein irres Feeling
1984-11-23
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
1984-10-31
The Swing
1983-10-14
C.O.D.
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