Marie Burchard

She was educated at the German School in Paris and studied drama at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin,[1] where she met her husband, actor Sebastian Schwarz.

She rose to fame for her role as Dunja in Andrea Breth’s rendition of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment at the 2008 Salzburg Festival.

At the Schaubühne, Berlin, Marie Burchard took on numerous lead roles, including in Marius von Mayenburg’s comedy Stück Plastik (2015), Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity (adapted and directed by Simon McBurney for the Barbican, London 2017) and Ödön von Horvath’s Italian Night, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, 2018).

In 2022, Marie Burchard appeared alongside Florian David Fitz and Senta Berger in the highly acclaimed comedy drama Oskars Kleid, where she played the mother of a nine-year old boy, who decides to be a girl.

Her next film was Michael Bully Herbig’s A Thousand Lines, where Burchard starred alongside Elyas M'Barek.