Italia Marchesini (Naples, October 22, 1896 - Rome, Dec. 19, 1972) was an Italian actress. Italia Marchesini started acting very young, in small parts of the Neapolitan dialect prose, until the encounter with the three brothers De Filippo, that wrote the early '30s for a long series of representations. Then with her husband the actor Nino Marchesini has her own company for plays, with which brings in several theaters of the most committed prose works. She made his debut in the world of cinema always together with De Filippo, who held engaged in versions for the big screen, the most famous comedies of the three Neapolitan authors, including not paying you! and what use this money ?. For radio EIAR, reads a discrete series of works in prose at its headquarters in Rome, even on television, since the beginning of the transmissions in 1954, RAI, will be present in several comedies and dramas.