Marlene Morreis

Marlene Morreis (born 21 December 1976 in Schärding, Upper Austria, is an Austrian actress.

Life and career Marlene Morreis was born in 1976 in Schärding in Upper Austria. She attended a rural primary school, then she went to the grammar school and successfully completed her Matura (A Levels). She then began studying Nordic philology in Munich. After spending a year abroad in Linköping, Sweden and returning to Munich, she was hired by Klaus Lemke in 2002 as a student waitress and doorkeeper at The Atomic Café in Munich for a role in the feature film Running Out of Cool. She then performed on stage at the Munich Lustspielhaus and then took a six-month sabbatical in Alaska, where she worked in a bar.

In 2005, Morreis began her acting training at The New School for Drama in New York City, which she graduated in 2008 with a Master of Fine Arts.

From 2008, Morreis worked in numerous independent productions in the USA, until 2010 when her artist's visa for a leading role in an episode expired. So, in 2011, she returned to Munich. Here she acted in films and television productions such as or Der Alte (The Old Fox). In the television series Schafkopf - A bissel was geht immer, which was broadcast on ZDF in November 2012, she played the starring role for the first time.

In 2015, she played the leading role in the four-part ZDF comedy series Komm schon!. In 2020, Morreis starred alongside Hannelore Elsner in their last film Lang lebe die Königin ("Long Live the Queen") as her daughter and TV host, Nina Just.

Marlene Morreis speaks High German, Bavarian and Austrian dialects. She is also fluent in American and in British English and in Swedish. She lives in Munich.

Filmography (selection) 2002: Running Out of Cool 2009: The Greims 2010: Hungry Henrieta 2011: Stags 2012: One Bedroom 2012: Schafkopf – A bissel was geht immer (TV series, 6 episodes) 2012: 2012: Kommissarin Lucas – Die sieben Gesichter der Furcht 2012: Der Alte – Die Zeugin 2012–2013: Schlawiner (TV series) 2013: Wer hat Angst vorm weißen Mann? 2013: Polizeiruf 110: Kinderparadies 2014: Meine Mutter, meine Männer 2014: Die Frau aus dem Moor 2014: Die Rosenheim-Cops – a call centre under suspicion 2015: Ein Sommer in Masuren 2015: Komm schon! (TV series) 2015–2020: Schwarzach 23 (film series) 2015: Schwarzach 23 und die Hand des Todes 2016: Schwarzach 23 und die Jagd nach dem Mordsfinger 2018: Schwarzach 23 und der Schädel des Saatans 2020: Schwarzach 23 und das mörderische Ich 2016: Unser Traum von Kanada: Sowas wie Familie 2016: Der mit dem Schlag 2015: Mein Schwiegervater, der Stinkstiefel 2016: Heiter bis tödlich: München 7 (TV series) 2016: Liebe bis in den Mord – an Alpine thriller 2016: Polizeiruf 110: Sumpfgebiete 2016: Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus 2016: Der mit dem Schlag 2016: Hubert und Staller (TV series) 2017: Der Bergdoktor 2017: Jella jagt das Glück 2017: Wenn Frauen ausziehen 2017: Tatort: Die Liebe, ein seltsames Spiel 2018: Matula – Der Schatten des Berges 2018: Wackersdorf 2018: Die Chefin – a village beauty 2018: Labaule & Erben 2019: Curling for Eisenstadt 2020: Lang lebe die Königin 2020: Pohlmann und die Zeit der Wünsche 2020: Kinder und andere Baustellen 2021: An seiner Seite 2021: Danish crime story: Rauhnächte (film series) 2022: Nachricht von Mama (TV series)