Maria Simon

Known for ActingBorn 1976-02-06 (age 50)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Kongo

Against All Evidence

Carola Stern - Doppelleben

Fast perfekt verlobt

Amerika

Fürchte dich nicht

Good Bye, Lenin!

HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin

Distant Lights

Silvia S.: Blinde Wut

Wolfsjagd

A Hidden Life

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Im Namen des Gesetzes

Murder by the Lake

Gestern waren wir noch Kinder

Es war einer von uns

Romeo und Jutta

Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet

ZIBB

Everyone Is Fucking Crazy

Not All Were Murderers

Unter anderen Umständen

Der Geruch von Erde

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Luther

Civil Courage

NDR Talk Show

Letzte Spur Berlin

Frühling

Death on the Baltic

Die Tote im Moorwald

Balko

Masserberg

The Old Fox

Death in the Eifel

Loverboy

The Countess

Curling für Eisenstadt

Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen

Polizeiruf 110

Scene of the Crime

Der Bergdoktor

Nichts als Gespenster

SOKO München

Passing Summer

Goldene Kamera

German Film Award