Acting
Maria Simon
DE, EN cinema · 43 credits
Born
6 February 1976 (age 50)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
Alle Jahre wieder
as Kathrin
Wolfsjagd
as Sara Jahnke
Der Zeuge
as Reporterin
Zwerg Nase
as Hanne
A Hidden Life
as Resie
Curling für Eisenstadt
as Petra Glewitz
Break-Out to the Unknown
as Sarah Schneider
Loverboy
as Anna
Im Tunnel
as Maren Adam
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
as Silvia Schubert
Das Geständnis
as KGB, Producer
Der Geruch von Erde
as Ellen Bischoff
Death on the Baltic
as Evelyn Kossack
Die Tote im Moorwald
as Josefine Mehdorn
Herzversagen
2012
Herzversagen
as Ellen Roth
Kongo
as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
Es war einer von uns
as Johanna Schröder
Civil Courage
as Monika Keller
Masserberg
as Tinka Sanchez
Blessed Events
as Susa
The Countess
as Helena
Death in the Eifel
as Lona Schanz
Romeo und Jutta
as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
Fürchte dich nicht
as Katrin Bischof
Not All Were Murderers
as Lona Furkert
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
as Leo Herzog
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
as Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
Good Bye, Lenin!
as Ariane
Distant Lights
as Sonja
Luther
as Hanna
Fast perfekt verlobt
2003
Fast perfekt verlobt
as Nika Kreschninski
Against All Evidence
as Stefanie
Jonathan's Liebe
2001
Jonathan's Liebe
as Nina Buchwald
Passing Summer
as Johanna
Mord im Swingerclub
2000
Mord im Swingerclub
as Susanna Bach
Amerika
as Mädchen mit Kind