Cast & creator
Maria Simon
Best known for Scene of the Crime, Scene of the Crime, Scene of the Crime
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.
44
film credits
42
television credits
85
1951–2027 · acting roles
6.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (86)
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Scene of the Crime
Sylvia Keller
1970Scene of the Crime
Lisa Mattern
1970Scene of the Crime
1970Scene of the Crime
Sabine Gerber
1970Scene of the Crime
Hannah Siems
1970
DAS!
Self
1991Volle Kanne
Self
1999ZIBB
Self
2003
The Old Fox
Anke Flemming
1977The Old Fox
Katrin Schwab
1977The Old Fox
Anna Sophie Belitz
1977
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
SOKO München
Tamara Lanz
1978
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Laura Friedrich
1996
Polizeiruf 110
KHK Olga Lenski
1971Polizeiruf 110
Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski
1971Polizeiruf 110
Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski
1971Polizeiruf 110
Olga Lenski
1971
Riverboat
Self
1992
Der Bergdoktor
Ina Lechner
2008Im Namen des Gesetzes
Lydia Stein
1994German Film Award
Self
1951
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Helena Klamerski
1995
Letzte Spur Berlin
Swantje Holthusen
2012
Ein starkes Team
Stefanie Lentz
1994Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Der Kriminalist
Bettina Winkler
2006
Balko
Marischka Frankovka
1995
Frühling
Sonja Feichtmayr
2011Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen
Dorkas Schlüter
1997
Murder by the Lake
Verena Garchinger
2014
Unter anderen Umständen
Rike Kramer
2006
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
Biene Virchow
1998
Erzgebirgskrimi
Tanja Rossner
2019
Good Bye, Lenin!
Ariane
2003Einsatz in Hamburg
Tanja Schulz
2000
A Hidden Life
Resie
2019
Luther
Hanna
2003
Drahá Vivi
Anna Klettmann
2023Stadt, Rad, Hund
Self
2013
The Countess
Helena
2009Zärtlichkeiten im Bus
Self
2013K3 – Kripo Hamburg
Kathrin Leutgeb
2003
Silvia S.: Blinde Wut
Silvia Schubert
2015
Death on the Baltic
Evelyn Kossack
2013
Not All Were Murderers
Lona Furkert
2006
Distant Lights
Sonja
2003
Everyone Is Fucking Crazy
Jella
2023Roland
2027
Über Land
Frieda Mirko
2017
Against All Evidence
Stefanie
2002Verbotene Küsse
Andrea
2001
Death in the Eifel
Lona Schanz
2009
Amerika
Mädchen mit Kind
2000
Im Tunnel
Maren Adam
2017
Es war einer von uns
Johanna Schröder
2010
Die Tote im Moorwald
Josefine Mehdorn
2012Fast perfekt verlobt
Nika Kreschninski
2003
Passing Summer
Johanna
2001
Der Geruch von Erde
Ellen Bischoff
2014Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet
Andrea Bär
2003
Nichts als Gespenster
Ellen
2006Herzversagen
Ellen Roth
2012Jonathan's Liebe
Nina Buchwald
2001
Break-Out to the Unknown
Sarah Schneider
2018Mädchen in Uniform
Zwerg Nase
Hanne
2021
Romeo und Jutta
Dr.Annette Meerkatz
2009Engel der Gerechtigkeit
Sonja Danner
2011
Blessed Events
Susa
2010
Alle Jahre wieder
Kathrin
2024
Carola Stern - Doppelleben
Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
2004
Masserberg
Tinka Sanchez
2010
Loverboy
Anna
2017Mord im Swingerclub
Susanna Bach
2000
Erste Ehe
2002
Das Geständnis
KGB
2015Das Geständnis
Producer
2015
Curling für Eisenstadt
Petra Glewitz
2019
Fürchte dich nicht
Katrin Bischof
2007
Civil Courage
Monika Keller
2010
Kongo
Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
2010
Der Zeuge
Reporterin
2023
Wolfsjagd
Sara Jahnke
2023
Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten
Leo Herzog
2006