Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht (b. 1945) is a German actor known for her film work, often as offbeat leading ladies. She was a regular on Sesamstrasse in 2001 as Momi.
Following a background in cabaret and theater, Sägebrecht was spotted by German director/writer Percy Adlon who used her frequently beginning with the 1980 TV movie Herr Kischott (a modern day Don Quixote variation, in a supporting role as the wife of the Sancho Panza counterpart). After a small role in Adlon's 1983 film Die Schaukel, the director starred her in Sugar Baby (1985), as a lonely woman who falls in love with a bus conductor, and his first English language film Bagdad Cafe (1987, with Jack Palance), as a tourist who ends up touching lives in a lonely desert cafe.
Supporting work in US films followed, in War of the Roses (directed by Danny DeVito, as the housekeeper Susan) and Moon Over Parador (with Raúl Juliá). She reunited with Adlon for the title role in Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989, with John Hawkes), as a housewife who passes bad checks and faulty credit cards to buy luxuries for her family. She continued in offbeat leads in various 1990s international co-productions: the Czech Marta a já (again the title role, a maid who marries a Jewish doctor before the outbreak of World War II), the Spanish La vida láctea (as the wet nurse to Mickey Rooney, who decides to live as an adult baby), and back in Hollywood for the comedy Mona Must Die (with Debbie Allen, as a domineering wife whose spouse decides to kill her). She continued with high billed supporting roles in German films and elsewhere and ended the decade in the comic book adaptation Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (with Hardy Krüger Jr.) as the village chief's wife Impedimenta.
On TV, after her Sesamstrasse stint, she guest starred on Kommissar Rex and The Love Boat-style series Das Traumschiff. 
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