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Maria Ventura
Romanian-French actress and theatre director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie Ventura (born Aristida Maria Ventura 14 July 1888 - 3 December 1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française. In 1938, she directed Iphigénie by Racine, becoming the first women to direct a play at the Comédie-Française.[1]