Trivia

Under the name "Maria Hoff" she was on the cover of the November 1964 U.S. Playboy magazine.

Usually cast in ornamental roles. She quit acting in 1975 and later worked in a Munich advertising agency. In 1979, she married the American Lockheed-Manager George E. Lombard and became henceforth known as Maria Lombard.

Was slated for a role in the 1966 Matt Helm film The Silencers, but it fell through because she was unable to obtain a work permit.

A captain's daughter, she began as a graphic design student and then worked as a model.