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