Marianne Sägebrecht
Birthday: Born in 1945-08-27 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Deathday: Alive
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.
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Character: Jasmin Münchgstettner
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Character: Marianne
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Character: Magda
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Character: Alfa's mother
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C.O.D.
Character: Freda (as Barbara Hermani)
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Immer Wirbel um Marie
Character: Marie Meyer
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Das Geheimnis meiner Schwester
Character: Antonia Wiedemann
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Marga Engel gibt nicht auf
Character: Marga Engel
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Thanksgivin’, die nachtblaue Stadt
Character: Veronica
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Character: Ahnl
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Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure
Character: Frl. Hermann
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The Swing
Character: Tandlerin
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Frau Holle
Character: Frau Holle
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Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen
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Santa's Secretary
Character: Marlène Veber
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Il ritorno del piccolo Lord
Character: Fräulein Klara
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The Little Lord
Character: Klara
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The Milky Life
Character: Aloha
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Die Toten Hosen - 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja
Character: Braut
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Silence
Character: Lady at the lake
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Pettson and Findus: The Best Christmas Ever
Character: Beda Andersson
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Erik & Erika
Character: Schwester Sigberta
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Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
Character: Beda Andersson
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Schmucklos
Character: Oma Gerti Schmuck
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Eine Frau nach Maß
Character: Margret
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One Day
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