Maria Schrader | |
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Born | Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany | 27 September 1965
Occupation(s) | Director, screenwriter, actress |
Years active | 1992–present |
Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) 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. [1]
Schrader was born in Hanover and studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria.
She is especially well known from the film Aimée & Jaguar , as well as the acclaimed Liebesleben ("Love life") that she wrote, produced, and in which she acted. She has also written other films: RobbyKallePaul; I Was on Mars; Stille Nacht and Meschugge . She co-directed I Was on Mars with Dani Levy, whom she dated until 1999.
Schrader was part of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000.
Schrader played the part of Martin Rauch's aunt in Deutschland 83 (2015), [2] an 8 episode TV series, which was the first German-language TV series to be broadcast on US television. It also became popular in the UK, airing in early 2016 on Channel 4. [3]
In 2020 Schrader directed the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox , for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. [4] She directed the 2022 film She Said , starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. [5]
Though Schrader's most popular roles as an actor are of the Jewish faith, and many of her films as a screenwriter and director include Jewish characters and revolve around Jewish struggles, Schrader herself is not Jewish. [6]
Year | Title | Starring | Notes |
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1998 | Meschugge | Dani Levy | Co-director Dani Levy |
2007 | Love Life | Netta Garti, Rade Šerbedžija, Tovah Feldshuh | |
2016 | Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe | Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa | |
2020 | Unorthodox | Shira Haas, Amit Rahav, Jeff Wilbusch | TV miniseries |
2021 | I'm Your Man | Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw , Wolfgang Hübsch | |
2022 | She Said | Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Samantha Morton, Tom Pelphrey |
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