Photo: Siebbi / CC BY 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Maria Schrader fascinates me as a rare double talent. A Silver Bear-winning actress who reinvented herself behind the camera, she crowned that pivot with an Emmy for directing Unorthodox, one of the most quietly powerful miniseries of recent years. Directors who have lived the actor's vulnerability tend to draw truer performances, and her work bears that out, full of breathing, fully human characters. I admire how she innovates without spectacle, trusting restraint and intimacy over noise. Coming out of Hanover and the German film tradition, she has become an international voice on her own terms, and I will watch whatever she makes next.
Overview
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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Maria Schrader
- Name (Japanese)
- マリア・シュラーダー
- Reading
- まりあ・しゅらーだー
- Born
- September 27, 1965 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Snake
- Origin
- Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film actor / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Silver Bear for Best Actress
- 2017 European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film
- 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
- 2018 Berliner Bär
- 2021 Romy
- 2021 German Film Award for Best Direction
- 2021 German Film Award for Best Screenplay
- 2023 Romy
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Film director — see all → · Screenwriter — see all → · More people from Germany →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.