Marie-Luise Marjan

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

Best known for her role as Helga Beimer in German Television Series Lindenstraße (created by Hans W. Geißendörfer in 1985), Marjan is called 'Mutter der Nation' (Mother of the Nation). She was the heroine in Wolfgang Petersen's drama Smog and has also played in films by Werner Schroeter (Palermo oder Wolfsburg, Tag der Idioten) 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. In Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews).