Marie-Luise Marjan (given name: Marlies Lause, born 9 August 1940) is a German actress.

Marie-Luise Marjan is best known for her role as Helga Beimer in the German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama (1973) and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo or Wolfsburg, Day of the Idiots) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz). In the German Version of Murder, She Wrote, Immer wenn sie Krimis liest (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like Angela Lansbury. She played herself in the 1995 TV special Entführung aus der Lindenstraße. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews).

Marie-Luise Marjan

In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the Federal Cross of Merit. She studied acting with Eduard Marks at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

Marie-Luise Marjan

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1940 births

Living people

German film actresses

German soap opera actresses

German television actresses

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg alumni

Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

German voice actresses

20th-century German actresses

21st-century German actresses

Actors from Essen

Marie-Luise Marjan