Maria Filotti (9 October 1883, Batogu, Brăila County, Romania – 5 November 1956, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian actress .^[1] 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."^[2]

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

The Maria Filotti Theatre in Brăila is named for Filotti.

• 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)

• Înşir-te mărgărite (1912)
• Independenţa României (1912)
• On the Waves of Happiness (1920)
• Visul unui nopţi de iarnă (1946)
• Citadela sfărâmată (1956)

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

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