Maria Simon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1976-02-06 (49 years old)
Place of Birth
Leipzig, Germany
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.
Acting
(2024)
Alle Jahre wieder
as Kathrin
(2023)
Wolfsjagd
as Sara Jahnke
(2023)
Der Zeuge
as Reporterin
(2021)
Zwerg Nase
as Hanne
(2019)
A Hidden Life
as Resie
(2019)
Curling für Eisenstadt
as Petra Glewitz
(2018)
Break-Out to the Unknown
as Sarah Schneider
(2017)
Ich gehöre ihm
as Anna
(2017)
Im Tunnel
as Maren Adam
(2015)
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
as Silvia Schubert
(2015)
Das Geständnis
as KGB
(2014)
Der Geruch von Erde
as Ellen Bischoff
(2013)
Death on the Baltic
as Evelyn Kossack
(2012)
Herzversagen
as Ellen Roth
(2012)
Die Tote im Moorwald
as Josefine Mehdorn
(2011)
Engel der Gerechtigkeit
as Sonja Danner
(2010)
Kongo
as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
(2010)
Civil Courage
as Monika Keller
(2010)
Masserberg
as Tinka Sanchez
(2010)
Es war einer von uns
as Johanna Schröder
(2010)
Blessed Events
as Susa
(2009)
The Countess
as Helena
(2009)
Romeo und Jutta
as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
(2009)
Tod in der Eifel
as Lona Schanz
(2007)
Fürchte dich nicht
as Katrin Bischof
(2006)
Not All Were Murderers
as Lona Furkert
(2006)
Nichts als Gespenster
as Ellen
(2006)
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
as Leo Herzog
(2004)
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
as Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
(2003)
Luther
as Hanna
(2003)
Good Bye, Lenin!
as Ariane
(2003)
Distant Lights
as Sonja
(2003)
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
as Andrea Bär
(2003)
Fast perfekt verlobt
as Nika Kreschninski
(2002)
Against All Evidence
as Stefanie
(2002)
(2001)
Passing Summer
as Johanna
(2001)
Jonathan's Liebe
as Nina Buchwald
(2001)
Verbotene Küsse
as Andrea
(2000)
Mord im Swingerclub
as Susanna Bach
(2000)
Amerika
as Mädchen mit Kind
Crew
(2015)
Das Geständnis
Producer