Marie Baumer

Marie Baumer is a German actress with a career that spans stage, film, and television. Born on May 7, 1969, in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, she grew up in Hamburg and left school after 11th grade to pursue acting. Her training took her to the Scuola Teatro Dimitri in Switzerland and later to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, where she studied under Jutta Hoffmann.

Her breakthrough came with Detlev Buck's comedy Männerpension. For her role in Oskar Roehler's Der alte Affe Angst, she won the Bavarian Film Prize in 2002 and the German Film Critics' Prize in 2003. She has also worked extensively in theater, appearing in productions at the Theater im Zimmer, the Kampnagel, and the Salzburg Festival, where she played the Paramour in Jedermann. In 2011, she directed the play Abschied at the Hamburg Kammerspiele.

One of her most notable achievements is the German Film Award for Best Actress, which she won in 2018 for her portrayal of Romy Schneider in the biopic 3 Days in Quiberon. In addition to acting, she teaches acting courses at various institutions and has worked as a festival director for a drone film festival. She also offers courses on self-discovery and personal development, particularly centered around horses. She has a son with actor Nicki von Tempelhoff, from whom she separated in 2009, and currently lives in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France.