Maria Simon
Acting • Born 1976-02-06
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.
Filmography
84 credits
Good Bye, Lenin!
Movie • 2003
Ariane
Distant Lights
Movie • 2003
Sonja
Nichts als Gespenster
Movie • 2006
Ellen
Luther
Movie • 2003
Hanna
Fürchte dich nicht
Movie • 2007
Katrin Bischof
The Countess
Movie • 2009
Helena
Erste Ehe
Movie • 2002
Zwerg Nase
Movie • 2021
Hanne
Kongo
Movie • 2010
Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
Es war einer von uns
Movie • 2010
Johanna Schröder
Die Tote im Moorwald
Movie • 2012
Josefine Mehdorn
Against All Evidence
Movie • 2002
Stefanie
Wolfsjagd
Movie • 2023
Sara Jahnke
Not All Were Murderers
Movie • 2006
Lona Furkert
Mord im Swingerclub
Movie • 2000
Susanna Bach
Der Geruch von Erde
Movie • 2014
Ellen Bischoff
Civil Courage
Movie • 2010
Monika Keller
Death on the Baltic
Movie • 2013
Evelyn Kossack
Death in the Eifel
Movie • 2009
Lona Schanz
Verbotene Küsse
Movie • 2001
Andrea
Jonathan's Liebe
Movie • 2001
Nina Buchwald
Masserberg
Movie • 2010
Tinka Sanchez
Romeo und Jutta
Movie • 2009
Dr.Annette Meerkatz
Engel der Gerechtigkeit
Movie • 2011
Sonja Danner
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
Movie • 2015
Silvia Schubert
Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
Movie • 2003
Andrea Bär
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
Movie • 2006
Leo Herzog
Amerika
Movie • 2000
Mädchen mit Kind
A Hidden Life
Movie • 2019
Resie
Ich gehöre ihm
Movie • 2017
Anna
Im Tunnel
Movie • 2017
Maren Adam
Das Geständnis
Movie • 2015
KGB
Blessed Events
Movie • 2010
Susa
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
Movie • 2004
Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
Herzversagen
Movie • 2012
Ellen Roth
Break-Out to the Unknown
Movie • 2018
Sarah Schneider
Fast perfekt verlobt
Movie • 2003
Nika Kreschninski
Der Zeuge
Movie • 2023
Reporterin
Curling für Eisenstadt
Movie • 2019
Petra Glewitz
Passing Summer
Movie • 2001
Johanna
Alle Jahre wieder
Movie • 2024
Kathrin
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
KHK Olga Lenski
Unter anderen Umständen
TV • 2006
Rike Kramer
Im Namen des Gesetzes
TV • 1994
Lydia Stein
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Hauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
Einsatz in Hamburg
TV • 2000
Tanja Schulz
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Anke Flemming
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Katrin Schwab
Der Alte
TV • 1977
Anna Sophie Belitz
K3 – Kripo Hamburg
TV • 2003
Kathrin Leutgeb
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Sylvia Keller
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski
Ein starkes Team
TV • 1994
Stefanie Lentz
Der Kriminalist
TV • 2006
Bettina Winkler
SOKO München
TV • 1978
Tamara Lanz
Balko
TV • 1995
Marischka Frankovka
Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
TV • 1997
Dorkas Schlüter
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy
TV • 2023
Jella
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
TV • 1995
Helena Klamerski
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
TV • 1998
Biene Virchow
Letzte Spur Berlin
TV • 2012
Swantje Holthusen
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Lisa Mattern
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Sabine Gerber
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Hannah Siems
Frühling
TV • 2011
Sonja Feichtmayr
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
TV • 1996
Laura Friedrich
Erzgebirgskrimi
TV • 2019
Tanja Rossner
Murder by the Lake
TV • 2014
Verena Garchinger
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Volle Kanne
TV • 1999
Self
Stadt, Rad, Hund
TV • 2013
Self
Gestern waren wir noch Kinder
TV • 2023
Anna Klettmann
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Olga Lenski
Zärtlichkeiten im Bus
TV • 2013
Self
DAS!
TV • 1991
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Riverboat
TV • 1992
Self
Der Bergdoktor
TV • 2008
Ina Lechner
ZIBB
TV • 2003
Self
Über Land
TV • 2017
Frieda Mirko