Marianne Sägebrecht (German: [ma.ˈʁi̯a.nə ˈzɛːɡəˌbʁɛçt] ; born 27 August 1945) is a German film actress.
Career
Sägebrecht was a producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with the troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director cast her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then in the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985).
In 1987 she co-starred in the comedy drama Bagdad Café. Other roles include appearances in Paul Mazursky's Moon over Parador (1988) and Danny DeVito's The War of the Roses (1989).
Returning to Germany, she played a timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the US 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).
In 1997, she was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
