Background
She was born and brought up in the former East Germany but moved to New York in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the United Nations, and sister Dalena Simon.
She was born and brought up in the former East Germany but moved to New York in 1990 to live with her father, a computer expert with the United Nations, and sister Dalena Simon.
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.
Simon is the sister of the actress Susanna Simon. She also has a sister named Alyssa. Simon has four children.
Nicht alle waren Mörder (2006) (television) (pre-production) as Lona Tatort - Minenspiel (2005) (television) as Hannah Siems Tatort - Feuertaufe (2005) (television) as Sabine Gerber Die Pathologin (2005) (television) as Leo Carola Stern - Doppelleben (2004) (television) Kleine Schwester (2004) (television) as Katrin Rubakow K3 - Kripo Hamburg - Auf dünnem Eis (2003) (television) as Kathrin Leutgeb Fast perfekt verlobt (2003) (television).
Nika Kreschninski Spurlos - Ein Baby verschwindet (2003) (television). Andrea Bär Tatort - Reise ins Nichts (2002) (television).
Sabine Hallmeier "Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei" - Die Clique (2002) television Episode as Laura Friedrich Tatort - Verrat (2002) (television) as Lisa Mattern (United States of America title: Scene of the Crime: Betrayal) Jonathans Liebe (2001) (television) as Nina Buchwald Verbotene Küsse (2001) (television) as Andrea "Balko" - Der Schweinemann (2001) television Episode as Marischka "HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin" - Fehlgeleitet (2001) television Episode as Biene Virchow Mord im Swingerclub (2000) (television) as Susanna Bach Jenny Berlin - Tod am Meer (2000) (television) as Tanja Schulz.
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 (ie, 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 television movie Kleine Schwester was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Awards in 2005.
