Teresa Mariani
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Teresa Mariani | |
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| Born | 24 October 1868 |
| Died | 1 August 1914 (aged 45) Castelfranco Veneto, Kingdom of Italy |
| Other names | Teresina Mariani-Zampieri |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Vittorio Zampieri |
Teresa Mariani (24 October 1868[1] – 1 August 1914) was an Italian actress.
Mariani was born into a family of performers in Florence. She began her acting career as a small child, in a Paris production of Ernest Legouvé's Medea, sharing the stage with Adelaide Ristori.[2][3]
Career
Mariani was a comic and dramatic actress who performed in throughout Europe and toured in the Caribbean and South America.[4][5][6] She worked in various theatre companies, including those run by Ermete Novelli and Cesare Rossi.[7] She was head actress with her own touring company from 1894 to 1908,[8] with the other members including her husband Vittorio Zampieri, Achille Majeroni, Maria Melato, Ernesto Sabbatini, and Arturo Falconi. In 1898, when she starred in her company's production of A Doll's House in Montevideo, she became the first actress to play Ibsen's Nora in Uruguay.[9] She sat for a portrait by Spanish painter Ramon Casas, who also used her image to illustrate the share certificates for Hispano Suiza Fábrica de Automóviles SA.
Mariani also appeared in a silent film, Situazione comica (1909). A few months before her death in 1914, she performed in classical Greek dramas in Verona with Gualtiero Tumiati.[10]
