Maria Forescu (15 January 1875 – 28 October 1947) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress.

Living undercover during the later years of World War II, she survived the Holocaust and died in 1947 in East Berlin.

Around the turn of the century, she debuted as an operetta singer and soon became a well known member of the renowned Viennese Carl Theater.

[4] The most popular films in which Maria Forescu acted were the Gerhard Lamprecht-directed Between Night and Dawn and the Hans Behrendt-directed Danton (both 1931).

[6] In 1932, after filming Das erste Recht des Kindes (directed by Fritz Wendhausen), her career was cut short by the new laws made by the Nazi party.