Maria Simon
Acting
1976-02-06 · 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.
Filmography
Roland
2027 · Movie
Alle Jahre wieder
2024 · Movie
Wolfsjagd
2023 · Movie
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy
2023 · Series
Der Zeuge
2023 · Movie
Drahá Vivi
2023 · Series
Zwerg Nase
2021 · Movie
Erzgebirgskrimi
2019 · Series
Curling für Eisenstadt
2019 · Movie
A Hidden Life
2019 · Movie
Break-Out to the Unknown
2018 · Movie
Über Land
2017 · Series
Loverboy
2017 · Movie
Im Tunnel
2017 · Movie
Das Geständnis
2015 · Movie
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
2015 · Movie
Murder by the Lake
2014 · Series
Der Geruch von Erde
2014 · Movie
Stadt, Rad, Hund
2013 · Series
Death on the Baltic
2013 · Movie
Zärtlichkeiten im Bus
2013 · Series
Die Tote im Moorwald
2012 · Movie
Herzversagen
2012 · Movie
Letzte Spur Berlin
2012 · Series
Engel der Gerechtigkeit
2011 · Movie
Frühling
2011 · Series
Kongo
2010 · Movie
Es war einer von uns
2010 · Movie
Blessed Events
2010 · Movie
Masserberg
2010 · Movie
Civil Courage
2010 · Movie
Romeo und Jutta
2009 · Movie
The Countess
2009 · Movie
Death in the Eifel
2009 · Movie
Der Bergdoktor
2008 · Series
Fürchte dich nicht
2007 · Movie
Der Kriminalist
2006 · Series
Nichts als Gespenster
2006 · Movie
Not All Were Murderers
2006 · Movie
Unter anderen Umständen
2006 · Series
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
2006 · Movie
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
2004 · Movie
ZIBB
2003 · Series
Luther
2003 · Movie
K3 – Kripo Hamburg
2003 · Series
Fast perfekt verlobt
2003 · Movie
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
2003 · Movie
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · Movie
Distant Lights
2003 · Movie
Erste Ehe
2002 · Movie
Against All Evidence
2002 · Movie
Jonathan's Liebe
2001 · Movie
Verbotene Küsse
2001 · Movie
Passing Summer
2001 · Movie
Mord im Swingerclub
2000 · Movie
Einsatz in Hamburg
2000 · Series
Amerika
2000 · Movie
Volle Kanne
1999 · Series
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
1998 · Series
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
1997 · Series
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996 · Series
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995 · Series
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
1995 · Series
Balko
1995 · Series
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994 · Series
Ein starkes Team
1994 · Series
Riverboat
1992 · Series
DAS!
1991 · Series
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Series
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Series
SOKO München
1978 · Series
The Old Fox
1977 · Series
Polizeiruf 110
1971 · Series
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series
German Film Award
1951 · Series
Mädchen in Uniform
Movie