Maria Filotti

Maria Filotti

Maria Filotti (b. October 9, 1883 in Batogu, Brăila County, Romania; d. November 5, 1956 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian actress ^[1] of Greek origin.^{[citation needed]} She has been described as among 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."^[2] The Maria Filotti Theatre in Brăila, Romania is named after her.

Filotti was the grandmother of Romanian actor, Şerban Cantacuzino.^[3] Cantacuzino made his acting debut opposite Filotti in The Prince and the Beggar at the Bucharest National Theatre when he was eleven years old.^[3]

Stage appearances

• Gioconda in "La Gioconda" by Gabriele D'Annunzio (1904–1905)
• Silvia in "Suprema forţă" de Haralamb Lecca (1904–1905)
• Nenela in "Come le foglie" de Giuseppe Giacosa (1905–1906)
• Enriqueta in "El loco Dios" de 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" de Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon (1906–1907, Iaşi)
• Germaine Lechat in "Business is business (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" de 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" de 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)
• Pe valurile fericirii (1920)
• Visul unui nopţi de iarnă (1946)
• Citadela sfărâmată (1956)

Works

• Maria Filotti - Am ales teatrul - Editura pentru literatură, 1961

See also

• Filotti

References

1. ^ http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?id=229800&data=2007-11-23
2. ^ Alterescu, Simion (1983). An Abridged history of Romanian theatre. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România. pp. 115, 162–163. http://books.google.com/books?id=tZ84AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Maria+Filotti%22&dq=%22Maria+Filotti%22&hl=en&ei=i551TYSaF4O2sAOc8JzTBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Popescu, Irina (2011-07-07). "Romanian Prince Serban Cantacuzino dies in Paris". Romania Insider. http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-prince-serban-cantacuzino-dies-in-paris/28011/. Retrieved 2011-07-15. 

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Name	Filotti, Maria
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Date of birth	October 9, 1883
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Date of death	November 5, 1956
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