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Maria Simon

Maria Simon

Acting

February 6, 1976 (50 years old)
Leipzig, Germany
Female
43 Movies
42 TV Shows

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.

Good Bye, Lenin!
Good Bye, Lenin!

Good Bye, Lenin!

2003 7.5

as Ariane

Age 27 (now 50)
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life

2019 7.2

as Resie

Age 43 (now 50)
Distant Lights
Distant Lights

Distant Lights

2003 7.4

as Sonja

Age 27 (now 50)
The Countess
The Countess

The Countess

2009 5.9

as Helena

Age 33 (now 50)
Luther
Luther

Luther

2003 6.5

as Hanna

Age 27 (now 50)
Nichts als Gespenster
Nichts als Gespenster

Nichts als Gespenster

2006 5.8

as Ellen

Age 30 (now 50)
Loverboy
Loverboy

Loverboy

2017 5.9

as Anna

Age 41 (now 50)
Polizeiruf 110
Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110

1971 6.2

as Olga Lenski

10 eps
Break-Out to the Unknown
Break-Out to the Unknown

Break-Out to the Unknown

2018 5.1

as Sarah Schneider

Age 42 (now 50)
Gestern waren wir noch Kinder
Gestern waren wir noch Kinder

Gestern waren wir noch Kinder

2023 6.9

as Anna Klettmann

Age 46 (now 50)
7 eps
Not All Were Murderers
Not All Were Murderers

Not All Were Murderers

2006 6.7

as Lona Furkert

Age 30 (now 50)
Es war einer von uns
Es war einer von uns

Es war einer von uns

2010 7.0

as Johanna Schröder

Age 34 (now 50)
Polizeiruf 110
Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110

1971 6.2

as Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski

5 eps
Die Tote im Moorwald
Die Tote im Moorwald

Die Tote im Moorwald

2012 6.0

as Josefine Mehdorn

Age 36 (now 50)
Blessed Events
Blessed Events

Blessed Events

2010 4.7

as Susa

Age 34 (now 50)
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut

Silvia S.: Blinde Wut

2015 7.3

as Silvia Schubert

Age 39 (now 50)