Maria Simon
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Scene of the Crime
Sylvia Keller
1970
Series
Scene of the Crime
Lisa Mattern
1970
Series
Scene of the Crime
1970
Series
Scene of the Crime
Sabine Gerber
1970
Series
Scene of the Crime
Hannah Siems
1970
Volle Kanne
Self
1999
Series
DAS!
Self
1991
Series
The Old Fox
Anke Flemming
1977
Series
The Old Fox
Katrin Schwab
1977
Series
The Old Fox
Anna Sophie Belitz
1977
ZIBB
Self
2003
Series
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
Series
SOKO München
Tamara Lanz
1978
Series
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Series
Polizeiruf 110
KHK Olga Lenski
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Olga Lenski
1971
Series
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Laura Friedrich
1996
Series
Riverboat
Self
1992
Series
Der Kriminalist
Bettina Winkler
2006
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Series
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Helena Klamerski
1995
Im Namen des Gesetzes
Lydia Stein
1994
Series
Ein starkes Team
Stefanie Lentz
1994
Series
Der Bergdoktor
Ina Lechner
2008
German Film Award
Self
1951
Series
Letzte Spur Berlin
Swantje Holthusen
2012
Series
Balko
Marischka Frankovka
1995
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
Dorkas Schlüter
1997
Series
Frühling
Sonja Feichtmayr
2011
Series
Murder by the Lake
Verena Garchinger
2014
Series
Unter anderen Umständen
Rike Kramer
2006
Series
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
Biene Virchow
1998
Film
Good Bye, Lenin!
Ariane
2003
Film
A Hidden Life
Resie
2019
Einsatz in Hamburg
Tanja Schulz
2000
Series
Erzgebirgskrimi
Tanja Rossner
2019
Film
Luther
Hanna
2003
Film
The Countess
Helena
2009
Stadt, Rad, Hund
Self
2013
Series
Drahá Vivi
Anna Klettmann
2023
Verbotene Küsse
Andrea
2001
Film
Not All Were Murderers
Lona Furkert
2006
Zärtlichkeiten im Bus
Self
2013
K3 – Kripo Hamburg
Kathrin Leutgeb
2003
Film
Distant Lights
Sonja
2003
Film
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
Silvia Schubert
2015
Film
Death on the Baltic
Evelyn Kossack
2013
Series
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy
Jella
2023
Film
Against All Evidence
Stefanie
2002
Roland
2027
Series
Über Land
Frieda Mirko
2017
Film
Es war einer von uns
Johanna Schröder
2010
Film
Death in the Eifel
Lona Schanz
2009
Film
Im Tunnel
Maren Adam
2017
Film
Zwerg Nase
Hanne
2021
Film
Break-Out to the Unknown
Sarah Schneider
2018
Film
Der Geruch von Erde
Ellen Bischoff
2014
Film
Die Tote im Moorwald
Josefine Mehdorn
2012
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
Andrea Bär
2003
Film
Amerika
Mädchen mit Kind
2000
Film
Passing Summer
Johanna
2001
Film
Nichts als Gespenster
Ellen
2006
Mädchen in Uniform
Film
Loverboy
Anna
2017
Film
Der Zeuge
Reporterin
2023
Film
Kongo
Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
2010
Film
Wolfsjagd
Sara Jahnke
2023
Fast perfekt verlobt
Nika Kreschninski
2003
Film
Blessed Events
Susa
2010
Film
Masserberg
Tinka Sanchez
2010
Film
Fürchte dich nicht
Katrin Bischof
2007
Film
Curling für Eisenstadt
Petra Glewitz
2019
Film
Erste Ehe
2002
Herzversagen
Ellen Roth
2012
Film
Romeo und Jutta
Dr.Annette Meerkatz
2009
Film
Alle Jahre wieder
Kathrin
2024
Film
Civil Courage
Monika Keller
2010
Jonathan's Liebe
Nina Buchwald
2001
Engel der Gerechtigkeit
Sonja Danner
2011
Film
Das Geständnis
KGB
2015
Mord im Swingerclub
Susanna Bach
2000
Film
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
Leo Herzog
2006
Film
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
2004