Teresa Mariani | |
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Born | |
Died | 1 August 1914
Castelfranco Veneto, Kingdom of Italy | (aged 45)
Other names | Teresina Mariani-Zampieri |
Occupation | Actress |
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]
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, she was the first actress to play Ibsen's Nora in Uruguay, when she starred in her company's production of A Doll's House in Montevideo. [9] She sat for a portrait by Spanish painter Ramon Casas, who also used her image to illustrate the share certificates for Hispano Suiza Fabrica de Automoviles SA.
Mariani also appeared in a silent film, Situazione comica (1909). A few months before her death in 1914, she performed in Greek classical dramas in Verona, with Gualtiero Tumiati. [10]
Mariani married actor Vittorio Zampieri. [2] She died from heart failure in 1914, aged 45 years, at Castelfranco Veneto.