
Maria Simon
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.
Acting (31 movies)

Good Bye, Lenin!
2003

Distant Lights
2003

Nichts als Gespenster
2006

Luther
2003

Fürchte dich nicht
2007

The Countess
2009

Erste Ehe
2002

Zwerg Nase
2021

Es war einer von uns
2010

Die Tote im Moorwald
2012

Wolfsjagd
2023

Not All Were Murderers
2006

Der Geruch von Erde
2014

Civil Courage
2010

Death on the Baltic
2013

Death in the Eifel
2009

Masserberg
2010

Romeo und Jutta
2009

Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
2015

Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
2006

Amerika
2000

A Hidden Life
2019

Ich gehöre ihm
2017

Im Tunnel
2017

Das Geständnis
2015

Blessed Events
2010

Break-Out to the Unknown
2018

Der Zeuge
2023

Curling für Eisenstadt
2019

Passing Summer
2001

Alle Jahre wieder
2024
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Das Geständnis | 2015 | Producer |