Marie Leuenberger

Marie Leuenberger (* 1980 in Berlin ) is a theater and film actress . As the daughter of a Swiss father and a German mother, she has both German citizenship and Swiss citizenship .

Life

Marie Leuenberger grew up in Basel and played at the Junge Theater Basel from 1996 to 1999 . Then she completed her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich until 2002 . She was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich in 2002/03 and at the Stuttgart State Theater in 2004/05 . From 2005 to 2010 she was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Since then she has appeared in numerous cinema and television films. She has two children and lives in Berlin.

For her leading role in the Swiss feature film The Registrar , Leuenberger received the award for best actress at the World Film Festival in Montréal and the 2010 Swiss Film Prize. At the Solothurn Film Festival 2013 she received the Swiss TV Film Award for the female lead in the TV crime thriller Hunkeler and the eyes of Oedipus . Leuenberger won the Swiss Film Prize again in 2017 for her leading role in The Divine Order , a political film drama about the introduction of women's suffrage. For this role, she also won the award for best actress in an international feature film at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Filmography

• 2009: The registrar
• 2010: Tangled and Sewn up (TV movie)
• 2011: three quarters of the moon
• 2011: Blitzeis (short film)
• 2011: Father, our will be done (TV movie)
• 2011: What is gone is gone
• 2012: Hunkeler and the eyes of Oedipus (TV movie)
• 2012: Whoever believes will be blessed
• 2012: It's summer outside
• 2013: Last Trace Berlin (TV series, episode Home Front )
• 2013: sisters
• 2014: The circle
• 2014: The Dead from Lake Constance (TV series)
• since 2014: Beside the track (TV series)
  • 2014: adrenaline
  • 2016: amnesia
  • 2016: death wish
  • 2017: Your will be done
  • 2018: Say you're sorry
  • 2020: Deliver me
• 2015: Police call 110: Storm in the head
• 2015: Under different circumstances - The missing child
• 2016: Schubert in Love
• 2017: bright nights
• 2017: The divine order
• 2017: Tatort - an eye for an eye
• 2019: Weirdly perfect friends
• 2019: Donna Leon - Still Waters (TV series)
• 2019: Marie Brand and the game of luck
• 2020: The Prodigal Daughter (TV series)
• 2020: friend or foe. A thriller from Passau (TV series)
• 2020: The Danube is deep. A thriller from Passau (TV series)

Awards

• 2017: Tribeca Film Festival , Award for Best Actress in an International Feature Film ( The Divine Order )
• 2017: Swiss Film Award , Quartz as Best Actress (The Divine Order)
• 2013: Swiss TV Film Award, Best Actress Award (Hunkeler - The Eyes of Oedipus)
• 2010: Swiss Film Award, Quartz as Best Actress ( The Registrar )
• 2009: Festival des Films du Monde , Montréal, Best Actress Award (The Registrar)

Web links

• Marie Leuenberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marie Leuenberger at filmportal.de
• “Freedom for women is also a new freedom for men” Interview at annabelle.ch on March 6, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Here are the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Juried Award Winners ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: tribecafilm.com, April 28, 2017.