Acting
Born July 24, 1884 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Maria Caserini began acting in stage productions at an early age. Her first film was in 1906 for Cines in Rome, in what is considered the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Mario Caserini, her husband. She starred in Romeo and Juliet in 1908 and then in thirteen other films until 1909. One of these films was Macbeth, directed by her husband. From 1910 to 1927 she acted in 65 films, many of them always directed by her husband, such as Lucrezia Borgia, whose performance gave her greater notoriety. She resumed theatrical activity soon after abandoning her film career. She was buried in the Maggiore Cemetery in Milan, where her remains were later interred in a small cell.

The Railway Owner
1919

Life and Death
1917

Christus
1916

Monna Vanna
1916

Nero and Agrippina
1914

Love Everlasting
1913
Floretta e Patapon
1913

Parsifal
1912

Gabriella di Beaulieu
1911
Regina per quindici giorni
1911

Agrippina
1911

Amleto
1910

Anita Garibaldi
1910
L'abbandonata
1910

The Garibaldi Boy
1909
Macbeth
1909
Wanda Soldanieri
1909