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) ==