Rosina Anselmi

Rosina Anselmi (26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress. She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania.^[1]

Rosina Anselmi
Born	(1880-07-26)26 July 1880 Caltagirone, Catania, Kingdom of Italy
Died	23 May 1965(1965-05-23) (aged 84) Catania, Italy
Occupation	Actress

Life and career

Born in Caltagirone, Catania into a family of stage actors, Anselmi began acting with her father Alessandro, then with Nino Martoglio in some comedies written by him.^[1] She then joined the stage company of Mimi Aguglia, another important actress of the Sicilian repertoire, with whom she toured in North America.^[1] Anselmi went back to Sicily in 1910, and in 1914 she became the first actress, in spite of her status of a great character actress, alongside Angelo Musco with whom she acted for about thirty years, until Musco's death.^[1] Anselmi later continued her stage career next to Michele Abbruzzo, proposing the identical repertoire of Musco, until her death.^[1] She was a co-founder of the Teatro Stabile di Catania.^[2][3]

Selected filmography

• The Matchmaker (1934)
• Aldebaran (1935)
• Territorial Militia (1935)
• King of Diamonds (1936)
• Lohengrin (1936)
• Abandon All Hope (1937)
• The Ferocious Saladin (1937)
• A Lady Did It (1938)
• The Marquis of Ruvolito (1939)