Maria Simon
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.
74 acting credits
Acting · 74
Scene of the Crime
1970
ZIBB
2003
The Old Fox
1977
Polizeiruf 110
1971
DAS!
1991
Volle Kanne
1999
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
SOKO München
1978
Riverboat
1992
Ein starkes Team
1994
German Film Award
1951
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994
Der Bergdoktor
2008
Goldene Kamera
1984
Der Kriminalist
2006
Letzte Spur Berlin
2012
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
1995
Balko
1995
Frühling
2011
Murder by the Lake
2014
Einsatz in Hamburg
2000
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
1997
Unter anderen Umständen
2006
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
1998
A Hidden Life
2019
Erzgebirgskrimi
2019
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003
Stadt, Rad, Hund
2013
The Countess
2009
Luther
2003
K3 – Kripo Hamburg
2003
Gestern waren wir noch Kinder
2023
Zärtlichkeiten im Bus
2013
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy
2023
Distant Lights
2003
Herzversagen
2012
Passing Summer
2001
Not All Were Murderers
2006
Über Land
2017
Romeo und Jutta
2009
Civil Courage
2010
Fürchte dich nicht
2007
Against All Evidence
2002
Death on the Baltic
2013
Wolfsjagd
2023
Fast perfekt verlobt
2003
Nichts als Gespenster
2006
Im Tunnel
2017
Break-Out to the Unknown
2018
Masserberg
2010
Zwerg Nase
2021
Mord im Swingerclub
2000
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
2004
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
2003
Erste Ehe
2002
Alle Jahre wieder
2024
Death in the Eifel
2009
Es war einer von uns
2010
Curling für Eisenstadt
2019
Jonathan's Liebe
2001
Loverboy
2017
Kongo
2010
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
2006
Verbotene Küsse
2001
Der Geruch von Erde
2014
Blessed Events
2010
Der Zeuge
2023
Das Geständnis
2015
Amerika
2000
Die Tote im Moorwald
2012
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
2015
Engel der Gerechtigkeit
2011