Maria Simon
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.
Born: February 6, 1976
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Known For
Filmography
as Kathrin
as Sara Jahnke
as Jella
as Reporterin
as Anna Klettmann
as Hanne
as Tanja Rossner
as Petra Glewitz
as Resie
as Sarah Schneider
as Frieda Mirko
as Anna
as Maren Adam
as KGB
as Silvia Schubert
as Verena Garchinger
as Ellen Bischoff
as Evelyn Kossack
as Josefine Mehdorn
as Swantje Holthusen
as Sonja Feichtmayr
as Johanna Schröder
as Susa
as Tinka Sanchez
as Monika Keller
as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
as Helena
as Lona Schanz
as Ina Lechner
as Katrin Bischof
as Bettina Winkler
as Ellen
as Lona Furkert
as Rike Kramer
as Leo Herzog
as Hanna
as Ariane
as Sonja
as Johanna
as Tanja Schulz
as Mädchen mit Kind
as Self
as Biene Virchow
as Laura Friedrich
as Self
as Helena Klamerski
as Marischka Frankovka
as Stefanie Lentz
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Tamara Lanz
as Anke Flemming
as Katrin Schwab
as Anna Sophie Belitz
as KHK Olga Lenski
as Hauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
as Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
as Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski
as Olga Lenski
as Sylvia Keller
as Lisa Mattern
as Sabine Gerber
as Hannah Siems