Marianne Gross

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Marianne Groß-Riedel (born August 28, 1942 in Aschersleben ) is a German actress and voice actress .

Life

Groß's parents came from Altenkirchen in the Westerwald , but moved to Aschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt after their father got a job as city inspector in the town hall there. Following her father's recommendation, Groß initially completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacy assistant, but at the same time appeared as an extra at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In Munich she completed a private acting training with Ellen Mahlke and made guest appearances at theaters there such as the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Kleine Komödie and the Rationaltheater .

Groß has been married to her colleague Lutz Riedel since 1979, and they have two daughters, Anne Marie (* 1981) and Sarah (* 1979), the latter also working in the dubbing industry.

synchronization

Through a colleague, Groß got into the dubbing studio in the early 1970s and in 1973 took on her first leading role as the German voice of Monique van de Ven in the Dutch drama Turkish fruits . A broad television audience, however, large was mainly known through the sitcom The Bill Cosby Show , in which she dubbed Phylicia Rashād as Claire Hanks-Huxtable in eight seasons , she also dubbed Rashād from 2001 to 2005 in the sitcom Cosby . She is also known as the German voice of Harriet Sansom Harris as Felicia Tilman in Desperate Housewives or Cherry Jones as President Allison Taylor in 24 .

Since Grifters , Groß has often been cast for Anjelica Huston , including in The Addams Family in Crazy Tradition , The Royal Tenenbaums and Choke - The Simulant . As a result of an illness of the regular speaker Regina Lemnitz , she jumped in 1990 for the synchronization of Whoopi Goldberg in their Oscar-winning role as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost - Message from Sam . In addition, she also dubbed Cher ( The Mask , Moonstruck or Tea with Mussolini ), Meryl Streep in ( Death suits her well , At the wild river and family thing ) or Gemma Jones in I see the man of your dreams .

Dialogue script and direction

From the mid-1970s, Groß wrote the German dialogue books for foreign-language film and television productions, including for In der Glut des Südens , A completely normal family , A man for certain hours , Oz - A fantastic world , Feivel, the mouse wanderer and Ein immoral offer . With their German-language adaptation of film dramas such as Philadelphia , Forrest Gump , Shakespeare in Love , Billy Elliot - I Will Dance , Mystic River and J. Edgar , literary adaptations such as The Grinch , Inkheart and The Strange Fall of Benjamin Button and animated works such as Spirit - The Cimarron and corpse Bride - corpse Bride , could make a name in the industry is large; for the premiere of Philadelphia , the main actor was Tom Hanks in Berlin. Groß knew in which hotel Hanks was living at the time, so she had a letter deposited for Hanks in which she described the process of the complete synchronization and explained the true meaning of the film, but she feared that this letter would simply be thrown away, therefore she claimed he wanted to know about dubbing. Groß received a response from Hanks in which he wrote that she was one of the few people who understood the film. In 2003, Groß was nominated for the German Synchronization Award in the category Outstanding Synchronized Directing for the melodrama Dem Himmel so Fern . The following year she received two awards for the independent films 21 Gramm and In America . For In America , as well as the tragic comedy Forget Mine Not! , she was nominated for the Outstanding Dubbing Script category that same year . In 2006 and 2008, Groß was a member of the jury.

Groß has also been involved in some Netflix productions. So she wrote the dialogue book for the series Marseille (TV series) , you also, when in the first season, dialogue director led. She also wrote the dialogue and directed the series The Politician and directed the dialogue on the film The Two Popes , for which her husband Lutz Riedel wrote the dialogue book. Groß also wrote the dialogue book for the series Unorthodox (miniseries) .

Radio plays

Under the direction of Ulli Herzog , Groß worked from 1980 to 1989 at the side of her husband Lutz Riedel in the 46-part youth radio play series Jan Tenner , in which she spoke the female protagonist Laura; She set this role to music in a comeback in 2019. In addition to Jürgen Kluckert , she could also be heard as Wendy's mother Heike Thorsteeg in the radio play adaptation Wendy . She took on changing guest roles in several episodes of the radio play series Geisterjäger John Sinclair , Sherlock Holmes , Lady Bedfort and sister Amélie ; on April 18, 2009 she appeared in the role of Lady Bedfort live in the Osnabrück event restaurant Blue Note with the title Lady Bedfort and the murder in the ring in front of 175 spectators.

Speaking roles (selection)

Anjelica Huston

Cher

Cherry Jones

Phylicia Rashad

Stockard Channing

Vera Göpfert

Gemma Jones

Movies

Series

Awards (selection)

  • 2004: German price for dubbing in the category “Outstanding dubbing directing” for 21 grams and In America

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. LAURA MÄRTENS: Marianne Groß: Perfect mix of technology, acting and voice. August 31, 2011, accessed on July 3, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ The media godparents: Interview with Lutz Riedel. June 30, 2017. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  3. German synchronous index | Voice actor | Marianne Gross. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ The media godparents: Interview with Marianne Groß. April 5, 2019, accessed July 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ German Prize for Synchronization: Prize Winner 2003 (PDF file; 48 kB), accessed on March 24, 2012
  6. ^ German Prize for Dubbing: Prize Winners 2004 (PDF file; 41 kB), accessed on March 24, 2012
  7. It's all about the ears casting-network.de, March 2006, accessed on March 24, 2012 (PDF file; 215 kB)
  8. German Prize 2008: Nominations (PDF file; 6.5 MB), accessed on March 24, 2012