Maria Simon
Date of birth: 1976-02-06
Place of birth: Leipzig, Germany
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003-02-13
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Distant Lights
2003-02-11
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany
Nichts als Gespenster
2006-11-29
Episodes about different stages of relationships: from flirtation to falling out of love.
Luther
2003-10-29
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in
Fürchte dich nicht
2007-01-22
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The Countess
2009-03-13
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),
Erste Ehe
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A young couple argue through their own wedding party.
Zwerg Nase
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Kongo
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Es war einer von uns
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Story of 33-year-old Johanna, who wakes up distraught and disoriented in a park near her apartment t
Die Tote im Moorwald
2012-11-12
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Against All Evidence
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Wolfsjagd
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Not All Were Murderers
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Mord im Swingerclub
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Der Geruch von Erde
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Civil Courage
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Death on the Baltic
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Death in the Eifel
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Verbotene Küsse
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Jonathan's Liebe
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Masserberg
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Engel der Gerechtigkeit
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Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
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Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
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Amerika
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Im Tunnel
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Das Geständnis
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Blessed Events
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Carola Stern - Doppelleben
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Herzversagen
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Break-Out to the Unknown
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Curling für Eisenstadt
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Until now, spoiled Vicky has always got through life by relying on the name of her father, who is an
Passing Summer
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A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways wit
Alle Jahre wieder
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