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Maria Schrader

Acting

Born September 27, 1965 · Hannover, Germany

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Biography

Maria Schrader is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film Love Life and the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. She also starred in the German international hit TV series Deutschland 83 (2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.

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Awards & recognition

  • Carl Zuckmayer Medal · 2025
  • Romy · 2023
  • German Film Award — Best Direction · 2021
  • German Film Award — Best Screenplay · 2021
  • Romy · 2021
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  • Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special · 2020
  • Berliner Bär · 2018
  • European Film Award – People's Choice Award — Best European Film · 2017
  • Herbert Strate Award · 2016
  • Silver Bear — Best Actress
  • European Film Award – People's Choice Award — Best European Film · 2017 · nominated

Filmography9 titles

Deutschland 83

2015as Lenora Rauch

She Said

2022Director

In Darkness

2011as Paulina Chiger

I'm Your Man

2021Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

Aimee & Jaguar

1999as Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar)

Rosenstrasse

2003as Hannah Weinstein

Scene of the Crime

1970as Iris Raven

Advertising Rules!

2001as Johanna von Schulenberg

The City and the City

2018as Senior Detective Dhatt