Personal Info
Birth date
1976-02-06 (49 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Leipzig, Germany
Also known as
-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.
Filmography
Scene of the Crime
6.1
Overview:
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.Polizeiruf 110
6.3
Overview:
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
6.5
Overview:
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.Der Alte
6
Overview:
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.Die Harald Schmidt Show
7
Overview:
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.SOKO München
5.5
Overview:
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.Der Bergdoktor
5.7
Overview:
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.Ein starkes Team
5.7
Overview:
The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.Der Kriminalist
5.2
Overview:
Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.Good Bye, Lenin!
7.543
Overview:
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.Balko
5.8
Overview:
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.Für alle Fälle Stefanie
2.5
Overview:
Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.A Hidden Life
7.155
Overview:
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.Luther
6.4
Overview:
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.Murder by the Lake
7
Overview:
Murder by the Lake is a German-Austrian TV crime series that has been produced since 2014 by Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion and Graf Filmproduktion in cooperation with the German television broadcaster ZDF and the Austrian television broadcaster ORF. The series is filmed and set in the adjacent towns of Bregenz, Austria, and Lindau, Germany, which are both located on the southeastern shore of Lake Constance.Acting
2024Alle Jahre wieder as Kathrin
2023Wolfsjagd as Sara Jahnke
2023Everyone Is F*cking Crazy (8 Episodes) as Jella
2023Der Zeuge as Reporterin
2023Gestern waren wir noch Kinder (7 Episodes) as Anna Klettmann
2021Zwerg Nase as Hanne
2019Erzgebirgskrimi (1 Episode) as Tanja Rossner
2019Curling für Eisenstadt as Petra Glewitz
2019A Hidden Life as Resie
2018Break-Out to the Unknown as Sarah Schneider
2017Über Land (4 Episodes) as Frieda Mirko
2017Ich gehöre ihm as Anna
2017Im Tunnel as Maren Adam
2015Das Geständnis as KGB
2015Silvia S.: Blinde Wut as Silvia Schubert
2014Murder by the Lake (1 Episode) as Verena Garchinger
2014Der Geruch von Erde as Ellen Bischoff
2013Stadt, Rad, Hund (1 Episode) as Self
2013Death on the Baltic as Evelyn Kossack
2013Zärtlichkeiten im Bus (1 Episode) as Self
2012Die Tote im Moorwald as Josefine Mehdorn
2012Herzversagen as Ellen Roth
2012Letzte Spur Berlin (1 Episode) as Swantje Holthusen
2011Engel der Gerechtigkeit as Sonja Danner
2011Frühling (1 Episode) as Sonja Feichtmayr
2010Kongo as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
2010Es war einer von uns as Johanna Schröder
2010Blessed Events as Susa
2010Masserberg as Tinka Sanchez
2010Civil Courage as Monika Keller
2009Romeo und Jutta as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
2009The Countess as Helena
2009Death in the Eifel as Lona Schanz
2008Der Bergdoktor (1 Episode) as Ina Lechner
2007Fürchte dich nicht as Katrin Bischof
2006Der Kriminalist (1 Episode) as Bettina Winkler
2006Nichts als Gespenster as Ellen
2006Not All Were Murderers as Lona Furkert
2006Unter anderen Umständen (1 Episode) as Rike Kramer
2006Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten as Leo Herzog
2004Carola Stern - Doppelleben as Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
2003ZIBB (1 Episode) as Self
2003Luther as Hanna
2003K3 – Kripo Hamburg (1 Episode) as Kathrin Leutgeb
2003Fast perfekt verlobt as Nika Kreschninski
2003Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet as Andrea Bär
2003Good Bye, Lenin! as Ariane
2003Distant Lights as Sonja
2002Erste Ehe as Unknown
2002Against All Evidence as Stefanie
2001Jonathan's Liebe as Nina Buchwald
2001Verbotene Küsse as Andrea
2001Passing Summer as Johanna
2000Mord im Swingerclub as Susanna Bach
2000Einsatz in Hamburg (1 Episode) as Tanja Schulz
2000Amerika as Mädchen mit Kind
1999Volle Kanne (1 Episode) as Self
1998HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin (1 Episode) as Biene Virchow
1997Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen (1 Episode) as Dorkas Schlüter
1996Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (1 Episode) as Laura Friedrich
1995Die Harald Schmidt Show (1 Episode) as Self
1995Für alle Fälle Stefanie (1 Episode) as Helena Klamerski
1995Balko (1 Episode) as Marischka Frankovka
1994Im Namen des Gesetzes (1 Episode) as Lydia Stein
1994Ein starkes Team (1 Episode) as Stefanie Lentz
1992Riverboat (2 Episodes) as Self
1991DAS! (3 Episodes) as Self
1984Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1 Episode) as Self
1979NDR Talk Show (1 Episode) as Self
1978SOKO München (1 Episode) as Tamara Lanz
1977Der Alte (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Anke Flemming, Katrin Schwab, Anna Sophie Belitz
1971Polizeiruf 110 (1, 32, 6, 2, 2 Episode) as KHK Olga Lenski, Hauptkommissarin Olga Lenski, Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski, Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski, Olga Lenski
1970Scene of the Crime (1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Sylvia Keller, Lisa Mattern, Unknown, Sabine Gerber, Hannah Siems
1951Deutscher Filmpreis (1 Episode) as Self
Production
2015Das Geständnis ... Producer