Maria Simon

Maria Simon (born February 6, 1976) is a German actress.

For the Argentine sculptor, see María Simón.
Maria Simon
Maria Simon, 2010
Born (1976-02-06) February 6, 1976
Leipzig, East Germany

Family and background

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.[1]

Maria Simon is the younger sister of actress Susanna Simon, who was born on July 23, 1968 in Almaty. 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 UN, and 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 husband, the actor Bernd Michael Lade.

Education

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.

Roles and awards

She won the award for Best Actress for her role in the film Zornige Küsse at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival in 2000.[2] Simon was nominated as the best supporting actress in the 2003 German Film Awards,[3] and was named European Shooting Star (i.e., best newcomer) at the 2004 Berlinale.[4] 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.[5]

Filmography
  • Luther (2003) as Hanna
  • Lichter (2003) as Sonja (English title: Distant Lights) Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
  • Good Bye Lenin! (2003) as Ariane Kerner (English title: Goodbye Lenin!)
  • My Daughter's Tears (2002) as Stefanie (USA title: Against All Evidence, German title: Meine Tochter ist keine Mörderin)
  • Erste Ehe (2002) as Dorit (USA title: Portrait of a Married Couple)
  • Mein langsames Leben (2001) as Johanna (English title: Passing Summer)
  • Zornige Küsse (1999) as Lea (Hong Kong title: Angry Kisses)

TV Work
  • Not All Were Murderers (2006, TV) (pre-production), as Lona
  • Tatort - Minenspiel (2005, TV), as Hannah Siems
  • Tatort - Feuertaufe (2005, TV), as Sabine Gerber
  • Die Pathologin (2005, TV), as Leo
  • Carola Stern - Doppelleben (2004, TV)
  • Kleine Schwester (2004, TV), as Katrin Rubakow
  • Spur & Partner (2003, TV series), as Frau Stolz/Hausmädchen/Eva Hermann
  • K3 – Kripo Hamburg - Auf dünnem Eis (2003, TV), as Kathrin Leutgeb
  • Fast perfekt verlobt (2003, TV), as Nika Kreschninski
  • Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet (2003, TV), as Andrea Bär
  • Tatort - Reise ins Nichts (2002, TV), as Sabine Hallmeier
  • Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei - Die Clique (2002, TV episode), as Laura Friedrich
  • Tatort - Verrat (2002, TV), as Lisa Mattern (USA title: Scene of the Crime: Betrayal)
  • Jonathans Liebe (2001, TV), as Nina Buchwald
  • Verbotene Küsse (2001, TV), as Andrea
  • Balko - Der Schweinemann (2001, TV episode), as Marischka
  • HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin - Fehlgeleitet (2001, TV episode), as Biene Virchow
  • Mord im Swingerclub (2000, TV), as Susanna Bach
  • Jenny Berlin - Tod am Meer (2000, TV), as Tanja Schulz

References
  1. "Maria Simon: Zwischen Polizeiruf, Punk und Kindern". noz.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  2. "22nd Moscow International Film Festival (2000)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
  3. Blaney, Martin (January 2004). "Actress' Portrait - Shooting Star - A portrait of Maria Simon" (PDF). Kino - 1/2004. Export-Union des Deutschen Films. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  4. interfilm.de
  5. presseportal.de
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