Marie Leuenberger

Actor

Copyright: Benno Kraehahn

Born in Berlin in 1980. Her first experience of acting was at the Youth Theatre in Basel. When she had completed secondary school she studied at the Otto-Falckenberg School of Drama in Munich. After graduating in 2002 she was employed at various theatres including the Residence Theatre in Munich, Basel Theatre and Stuttgart State Theatre. In summer 2005 she was awarded the Armin Ziegler Foundation’s Youth Prize. Since 2005 she has been acting at the Hamburg Playhouse. In 2007 she received the Friends of German Theatre Youth Prize. She received the prize for best actress at both the 2009 Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal and the Festival Cinema Tous Écrans in Geneva for her cinema debut in DIE STANDESBEAMTIN by Micha Lewinsky, as well as the Swiss Film Prize «Quartz 2010» Best Actress. 2017 Swiss Film Award, Best Actress in THE DIVINE ORDER by Petra Volpe.

Filmography
(a selection)

Actor

2025
Stiller by Stefan Haupt
2024
Mother's Baby by Johanna Moder
2020
Stürm: Bis wir tot sind oder frei by Oliver Rihs
2017
Die göttliche Ordnung by Petra Volpe
2015
Amnesia by Barbet Schroeder
2014
Der Kreis by Stefan Haupt
2012
Hunkeler und die Augen des Ödipus by Christian von Castelberg
2011
Vater, unser Wille geschehe by Robert Ralston Jr.
2010
Verstrickt und zugenäht by Walter Weber
2009
Die Standesbeamtin by Micha Lewinsky
2007
Auf der Strecke by Reto Caffi
2003
Für Julian by Tim Fehlbaum
1998
Simland by Peter Aschwanden

Awards

(a selection)

2009
Montréal, Festival des films du monde, Prix de la meilleure interpretation (Winner) in Die Standesbeamtin
2009
Genève, Geneva International Film Festival GIFF, Prix Swissperfrom pour la meilleure actrice (Winner) in Die Standesbeamtin
2010
Luzern, Swiss Film Award Quartz 2010, Swiss Film Award «Quartz», Best Actress (Winner) in Die Standesbeamtin
2017
Genève, Swiss Film Award 2017, Swiss Film Award, Best Actress (Winner) in Die göttliche Ordnung
2017
New York, Tribeca Film Festival, Best Actress in an International Narrative Feature Film (Winner) in Die göttliche Ordnung
2020
Tallinn, PÖFF Black Nights Film Festival, Best Actress (Winner) in Stürm: Bis wir tot sind oder frei
2022
Zürich, Swiss Film Award 2022, Best Actress (Nomination) in Stürm: Bis wir tot sind oder frei
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