Maria Simon

Maria Simon
Born	1976 Leipzig, East Germany

Maria Simon (born 1976) is a German actress.

Family and background

Simon is the sister of the actress Susanna Simon. She was born and brought up in the former East Germany but moved to New York in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the UN, and sister Dalena Simon. She also has a sister named Alyssa.

Simon's domestic partner, with whom she has two children, is the actor Bernd Michael Lade.

Education

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.

Roles and awards

Simon's first film Zornige Küsse received an award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1999. Simon was nominated as the best supporting actress in the 2003 German Film Awards,^[1] and was named European Shooting Star (i.e., best newcomer) at the 2004 Berlinale.^[2] 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.^[3]

Filmography

• Luther (2003) as Hanna
• Lichter (2003) as Sonja (English title: Distant Lights) Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
• Good Bye Lenin! (2003) as Ariane Kerner (English title: Goodbye Lenin!)
• My Daughter's Tears (2002) as Stefanie (USA title: Against All Evidence, German title: Meine Tochter ist keine Mörderin)
• Erste Ehe (2002) as Dorit (USA title: Portrait of a Married Couple)
• Mein langsames Leben (2001) as Johanna (English title: Passing Summer)
• Zornige Küsse (1999) as Lea (Hong Kong title: Angry Kisses)

TV Work

• Nicht alle waren Mörder (2006) (TV) (pre-production) as Lona
• Tatort - Minenspiel (2005) (TV) as Hannah Siems
• Tatort - Feuertaufe (2005) (TV) as Sabine Gerber
• Die Pathologin (2005) (TV) as Leo
• Carola Stern - Doppelleben (2004) (TV)
• Kleine Schwester (2004) (TV) as Katrin Rubakow
• "Spur & Partner" (2003) TV Series as Frau Stolz/Hausmädchen/Eva Hermann
• K3 - Kripo Hamburg - Auf dünnem Eis (2003) (TV) as Kathrin Leutgeb
• Fast perfekt verlobt (2003) (TV) .... Nika Kreschninski
• Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet (2003) (TV) .... Andrea Bär
• Tatort - Reise ins Nichts (2002) (TV) .... Sabine Hallmeier
• "Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei" - Die Clique (2002) TV Episode as Laura Friedrich
• Tatort - Verrat (2002) (TV) as Lisa Mattern (USA title: Scene of the Crime: Betrayal)
• Jonathans Liebe (2001) (TV) as Nina Buchwald
• Verbotene Küsse (2001) (TV) as Andrea
• "Balko" - Der Schweinemann (2001) TV Episode as Marischka
• "HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin" - Fehlgeleitet (2001) TV Episode as Biene Virchow
• Mord im Swingerclub (2000) (TV) as Susanna Bach
• Jenny Berlin - Tod am Meer (2000) (TV) as Tanja Schulz

References

1. ^ Blaney, Martin (January 2004). "Actress' Portrait - Shooting Star - A portrait of Maria Simon" (pdf). Kino - 1/2004. Export-Union des Deutschen Films. http://www.german-films.de/fileadmin/mediapool/pdf/German_Films_Quarterly/gfq1-04_scr.pdf. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
2. ^ interfilm.de
3. ^ presseportal.de

External links

• Maria Simon at the Internet Movie Database
• german-films.de: »A portrait of Maria Simon – Shooting Star«

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Date of birth	1976
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