Marianne Sägebrecht
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945, Starnberg, Bavaria) is a German actress, most famous for her appearance in the movies Sugarbaby, Bagdad Café, and The War of the Roses. This Rubenesque character player with a heart-shaped face and child-like features began her career as a leading producer and performer of Germany's alternative theater/cabaret scene. The eclectic background of Marianne Sägebrecht included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the "mother of Munich's sub-culture" as producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with her troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder in which she essayed the role of a delicate prostitute, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director put her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then created the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985) especially for her. American films beckoned as well and Sägebrecht was often cast in roles tailored to her unique abilities. Paul Mazursky reworked the part of a teutonic masseuse for her in Moon over Parador (1988) while Danny DeVito tailored the part of the German housekeeper for a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses (1989). Returning to Germany, she shone as the timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the USA in 1995). Sägebrecht headlined the black comedy as an unhappy wife whose straying husband plots her death in Mona Must Die (1994) and had small supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marianne Sägebrecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Susan
The War of the Roses
Mère Barberin
Sans famille
Jasmin Münchgstettner
Out of Rosenheim
Reporterin
Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
Dr. Leidzinger
Dust Devil
Tata Jeannette
Soleil
Bonemine
Astérix & Obélix contre César
Marianne
Zuckerbaby
Fortuna
Der Werdenfelser Lumpazivagabundus
Magda
Moon Over Parador
Mrs. Silberschmidt
Left Luggage
Rosalie Greenspace
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Hilde (segment 'Taboo Parlor')
Erotique
Emma
Mr. Bluesman
Rosa
Spanish Fly
Oma Marguerita
Omamamia
Anna Linke
Am Ende siegt die Liebe
Marie Meyer
Bezaubernde Marie
Elli Schulze
Ganz unten, ganz oben
Tante Sarah Silberschatz
So ein Schlamassel
Frau Netta
Der Unhold
Edeltraud Staller
Die Verführerin Adele Spitzeder
Mona von Snead
Mona Must Die
Annie
All Men Are Mortal
Klientin
Herz mit Löffel
Marga Engel
Marga Engel kocht vor Wut
Marga Engel
Marga Engel schlägt zurück
Erika Rapp
Der Kreis
Luise
Luise knackt den Jackpot
Beda Andersson
Pettersson und Findus - Kleiner Quälgeist, große Freundschaft
Die Mucklas ... und wie sie zu Pettersson und Findus kamen
Alfa's mother
Ein irres Feeling
Uschi
Ich wünsch Dir Liebe
Martha
Martha et moi
Charlotte
Charlotte und ihre Männer
Freda (as Barbara Hermani)
C.O.D.
Betty
Scheidung auf amerikanisch
Self
Münchner (Filmfest) Geschichten - 25 Jahre Filmfest München
Anneliese
Großglocknerliebe
Marie Meyer
Immer Wirbel um Marie
Antonia Wiedemann
Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
Marga Engel
Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
Veronica
Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
Ahnl
Ein ganzes Leben
Frl. Hermann
Crazy Boys-Eine Handvoll Vergnügen
Tandlerin
Die Schaukel
Frau Holle
Frau Holle
Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
Hilda Weigand
Katrin und Wladimir
Marlène Veber
Die Sekretärin des Weihnachtsmann
Klara
Il piccolo lord
Fräulein Klara
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Aloha
La vida láctea
Braut
Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
Lady at the lake
Stille
Beda Andersson
Pettersson und Findus 2 - Das schönste Weihnachten überhaupt
Marlies Schöne
Und plötzlich war alles anders
Marion Bruckmüller
Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
Schwester Sigberta
Erik & Erika
Tante Martha
Lorenz im Land der Lügner
Beda Andersson
Pettersson und Findus - Findus zieht um
Oma Gerti Schmuck
Schmucklos
Beauville
Margret
Eine Frau nach Maß
Irrsee
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
65
Gender
Female
Birthday
1945-08-27
Place of Birth
Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
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