1976-02-06 ( 49 years old ) in Leipzig, Germany
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.
Movies
Alle Jahre wieder
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Wolfsjagd
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Der Zeuge
2023-03-02
Zwerg Nase
2021-12-24
Curling für Eisenstadt
2019-09-13
A Hidden Life
2019-08-27
Break-Out to the Unknown
2018-02-14
Ich gehöre ihm
2017-08-30
Im Tunnel
2017-04-24
Das Geständnis
2015-09-15
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
2015-07-02
Der Geruch von Erde
2014-01-17
Death on the Baltic
2013-06-28
Die Tote im Moorwald
2012-11-12
Herzversagen
2012-10-22
Engel der Gerechtigkeit
2011-10-06
Kongo
2010-10-18
Es war einer von uns
2010-10-07
Blessed Events
2010-06-19
Masserberg
2010-05-19
Civil Courage
2010-01-27
Romeo und Jutta
2009-09-02
The Countess
2009-03-13
Tod in der Eifel
2009-02-09
Fürchte dich nicht
2007-01-22
Nichts als Gespenster
2006-11-29
Not All Were Murderers
2006-11-01
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
2006-01-30
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
2004-09-08
Luther
2003-10-29
Fast perfekt verlobt
2003-04-17
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
2003-03-25
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003-02-13
Distant Lights
2003-02-11
Erste Ehe
2002-07-10
Against All Evidence
2002-01-01
Jonathan's Liebe
2001-11-13
Verbotene Küsse
2001-11-12
Passing Summer
2001-09-20
Mord im Swingerclub
2000-11-07
Amerika
2000-01-27
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