{{Short description|Romanian actress (1883–1956)}} thumb|right|200px|Maria Filotti '''Maria Filotti''' (9 October 1883, Batogu, Brăila County, Romania – 5 November 1956, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian actress .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?id=229800&data=2007-11-23 |title=Maria Filotti, actrita nuantelor |website=Ziua.ro |date=2007-11-23 |accessdate=2017-03-12}}</ref> She was described as one of the "prestigious actors of the great realistic school" and the "directress" of a theater "that made an important contribution to transmitting the experience from one generation to the next."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Alterescu|first=Simion|title=An Abridged history of Romanian theatre|publisher=Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România|year=1983|pages=115, 162–63|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZ84AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Maria+Filotti%22}}</ref>
Filotti was the grandmother of Romanian actor, Şerban Cantacuzino.<ref name=ri>{{cite news|first=Irina|last=Popescu|title=Romanian Prince Serban Cantacuzino dies in Paris|url=http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-prince-serban-cantacuzino-dies-in-paris/28011|work=Romania Insider|date=7 July 2011|accessdate=15 July 2011}}</ref> Cantacuzino made his acting debut opposite Filotti in ''The Prince and the Pauper'' at the Bucharest National Theatre when he was eleven years old.<ref name=ri/>
==Legacy== The Maria Filotti Theatre in Brăila is named for Filotti.
==Stage appearances== * Gioconda in ''La Gioconda'' by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1904–1905) * Silvia in ''Suprema forţă'' by Haralamb Lecca (1904–1905) * Nenela in ''Come le foglie'' by Giuseppe Giacosa (1905–1906) * Enriqueta in ''El loco Dios'' by José Echegaray (1905–1906) * Catherine de Septmonts in ''L'étrangère'' by Alexandre Dumas fils (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Berta in ''Victims of the Law'' by Landray (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Clara Tardini in ''Jucătorii de cărţi'' by Haralamb Lecca (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Henriette in ''Cele două orfeline'' by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Germaine Lechat in ''Les affaires sont les affaires'' by Octave Mirbeau (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Nelly Rozier in ''Nelly Rozier'' by Maurice Hennequin and Paul Bilhaud (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Thomry in ''La Martyre'' by Jean Richepin (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Elena de Bréchebel in ''La rafale (Whirlwind)'' by Henri Bernstein (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Elissa in ''Rahab'' by Rudolf von Gottschall (1906–1907, Iaşi) * Lady Milford in ''Kabale und Liebe'' (''Intrigue and Love'') by Friedrich Schiller (1906–1907) * Maria in ''Magda (Heimat)'' by Hermann Sudermann (1906–1907) * Toinetta in ''Eva'' by Richard Voss (1906–1907) * Neera in ''Fântâna Blanduziei'' by Vasile Alecsandri (1907–1908, Bucharest) * Vidra in ''Răzvan şi Vidra'' by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1907–1908) * Eglea in ''Dragoste cu toane'' by J. W. Goethe (1907–1908) * Corina in ''Ovidiu'' by Vasile Alecsandri (1907–1908) * Zoe in ''O scrisoare pierdută'' by Ion Luca Caragiale (1922–1923) * Countess Almaviva in ''Nunta lui Figaro'' by Beaumarchais (1922–1923) * Hedda Gabler in ''Hedda Gabler'' by Henrik Ibsen * Queen Elisabeth in ''Maria Stuart'' (''Mary Stuart'') by Friedrich Schiller (1923–1924) * Irina in ''Chaika'' (''The Seagull'') by Anton Chekhov (1923–1924) * Clotilde in ''Pariziana'' by Henry Becque (1929) * Zoe in ''Gaiţele'' by Alexandru Kiriţescu (1949–1950, Bucharest) * Melania in ''Yegor Bulychov and Others'' by Maxim Gorki (1950–1951, Bucharest) * Adela in ''Citadela sfărâmată'' by Horia Lovinescu (1954–1955, Bucharest)
==Filmography== * ''Înşir-te mărgărite'' (1912) * ''Independenţa României'' (1912) * ''On the Waves of Happiness'' (1920) * ''Visul unui nopţi de iarnă'' (1946) * ''Citadela sfărâmată'' (1956)
==Works== * Maria Filotti - ''Am ales teatrul'' - Editura pentru literatură, 1961
==See also== *Filotti
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