---
name: "Maria Simon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-simon"
fi1m_id: "maria-simon"
imdb_id: "nm0800314"
tmdb_id: 4794
wikidata_id: "Q88871"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 February 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T09:11:36.208886+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Maria Simon

## Identity

Maria Simon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-simon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-simon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0800314
- **TMDB ID:** 4794
- **Wikidata ID:** Q88871
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88871, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800314/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4794

Actor. Born 6 February 1976 in Leipzig, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 February 1976, Leipzig, Germany
- **Active:** 2003–2019
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 78 (1), 2010s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88871, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800314/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4794

## Coming up

- *Roland* (2027-02-11)

## Biography

Maria Simon is a German actress. Born in Leipzig on 6 February 1976, she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and received her diploma in 1999.

She is known for her role as Ariane in the 2003 film *Good Bye, Lenin!*. She won the Best Actress award at the 2000 Moscow International Film Festival for *Zornige Küsse* and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2003 German Film Awards. In 2004 she was named a European Shooting Star at the Berlinale.

Simon has worked extensively in television, including a recurring role as Olga Lenski in the long-running crime series *Polizeiruf 110*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *A Hidden Life* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Resie — [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md)
- *Good Bye, Lenin!* (2003), Fi1m 78, as Ariane — [page](https://film.one/film/good-bye-lenin.md)

## Complete filmography (66)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Roland* (2027), Actor
- *Alle Jahre wieder* (2024), as Kathrin
- *Wolfsjagd* (2023), as Sara Jahnke
- *Everyone Is Fucking Crazy* (2023), series, as Jella
- *Der Zeuge* (2023), as Reporterin
- *Drahá Vivi* (2023), series, as Anna Klettmann
- *Zwerg Nase* (2021), as Hanne
- *Erzgebirgskrimi* (2019), series, as Tanja Rossner
- *Curling für Eisenstadt* (2019), as Petra Glewitz
- *A Hidden Life* (2019), as Resie — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-hidden-life.md)
- *Break-Out to the Unknown* (2018), as Sarah Schneider
- *Über Land* (2017), series, as Frieda Mirko
- *Loverboy* (2017), as Anna
- *Im Tunnel* (2017), as Maren Adam
- *Das Geständnis* (2015), as KGB · Producer
- *Silvia S.: Blinde Wut* (2015), as Silvia Schubert
- *Murder by the Lake* (2014), series, as Verena Garchinger
- *Der Geruch von Erde* (2014), as Ellen Bischoff
- *Death on the Baltic* (2013), as Evelyn Kossack
- *Die Tote im Moorwald* (2012), as Josefine Mehdorn
- *Herzversagen* (2012), as Ellen Roth
- *Letzte Spur Berlin* (2012), series, as Swantje Holthusen
- *Engel der Gerechtigkeit* (2011), as Sonja Danner
- *Frühling* (2011), series, as Sonja Feichtmayr
- *Kongo* (2010), as Oberleutnant Nicole Ziegler
- *Es war einer von uns* (2010), as Johanna Schröder
- *Blessed Events* (2010), as Susa
- *Masserberg* (2010), as Tinka Sanchez
- *Civil Courage* (2010), as Monika Keller
- *Romeo und Jutta* (2009), as Dr.Annette Meerkatz
- *The Countess* (2009), as Helena
- *Death in the Eifel* (2009), as Lona Schanz
- *Der Bergdoktor* (2008), series, as Ina Lechner
- *Fürchte dich nicht* (2007), as Katrin Bischof
- *Der Kriminalist* (2006), series, as Bettina Winkler
- *Nichts als Gespenster* (2006), as Ellen
- *Not All Were Murderers* (2006), as Lona Furkert
- *Unter anderen Umständen* (2006), series, as Rike Kramer
- *Die Pathologin - Im Namen der Toten* (2006), as Leo Herzog
- *Carola Stern - Doppelleben* (2004), as Erika Assmus aka Carola Stern
- *Luther* (2003), as Hanna
- *K3 – Kripo Hamburg* (2003), series, as Kathrin Leutgeb
- *Fast perfekt verlobt* (2003), as Nika Kreschninski
- *Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet* (2003), as Andrea Bär
- *Good Bye, Lenin!* (2003), as Ariane — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/good-bye-lenin.md)
- *Distant Lights* (2003), as Sonja
- *Erste Ehe* (2002), Actor
- *Against All Evidence* (2002), as Stefanie
- *Jonathan's Liebe* (2001), as Nina Buchwald
- *Verbotene Küsse* (2001), as Andrea
- *Passing Summer* (2001), as Johanna
- *Mord im Swingerclub* (2000), as Susanna Bach
- *Einsatz in Hamburg* (2000), series, as Tanja Schulz
- *Amerika* (2000), as Mädchen mit Kind
- *HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin* (1998), series, as Biene Virchow
- *Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen* (1997), series, as Dorkas Schlüter
- *Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police* (1996), series, as Laura Friedrich
- *Für alle Fälle Stefanie* (1995), series, as Helena Klamerski
- *Balko* (1995), series, as Marischka Frankovka
- *Im Namen des Gesetzes* (1994), series, as Lydia Stein
- *Ein starkes Team* (1994), series, as Stefanie Lentz
- *SOKO München* (1978), series, as Tamara Lanz
- *The Old Fox* (1977), series, as Anke Flemming, Katrin Schwab, Anna Sophie Belitz
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as KHK Olga Lenski, Kriminalhauptkommissarin Olga Lenski, Kriminalkommissarin Olga Lenski, Olga Lenski
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Sylvia Keller, Lisa Mattern, Sabine Gerber, Hannah Siems
- *Mädchen in Uniform*, Actor

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