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.

Filmografi

Luther2003 · HannaGood Bye, Lenin!2003 · ArianeA Hidden Life2019 · ResieVerbotene Küsse2001 · AndreaSilvia S.: Blinde Wut2015 · Silvia SchubertThe Countess2009 · HelenaAmerika2000 · Mädchen mit KindRoland2027 · Distant Lights2003 · SonjaDeath on the Baltic2013 · Evelyn KossackFast perfekt verlobt2003 · Nika KreschninskiMädchen in Uniform2027 · Break-Out to the Unknown2018 · Sarah SchneiderAgainst All Evidence2002 · StefanieJonathan's Liebe2001 · Nina BuchwaldNot All Were Murderers2006 · Lona FurkertDer Geruch von Erde2014 · Ellen BischoffPassing Summer2001 · JohannaDie Tote im Moorwald2012 · Josefine MehdornKongo2010 · Oberleutnant Nicole ZieglerBlessed Events2010 · SusaDeath in the Eifel2009 · Lona SchanzCivil Courage2010 · Monika KellerEs war einer von uns2010 · Johanna Schröder