Maria ( Twelfth Night ) - Wikipedia Maria ( Twelfth Night ) character in Twelfth Night Maria Twelfth Night character Maria ( second from right ) giggling while Malvolio demonstrates his yellow stockings to his lady Olivia. Painting by Johann Heinrich Ramberg. Created by William Shakespeare Maria is a fictional character in the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. She is a servant in Olivia 's household. Maria is shown to have a friendly relationship with Sir Toby Belch, and exhibits a witty attitude. Maria also forged a love letter to Malvolio which resulted in Malvolio 's condemnation to the madhouse. Connections with other characters Maria is Olivia 's personal house - maid Sir Toby Belch is Maria 's lover and eventual husband Malvolio is the steward in Olivia 's household and therefore Maria 's supervisor Performers Year Media Performer 1869 Broadway Fannie Davenport 1905 Broadway Zeffie Tilbury 1910 Film Marin Sais 1939 Television Lucille Lisle 1949 Broadway Ruth Enders 1955 Film Anna Lisyanskaya 1957 Television Micheline Luccioni 1963 Off - Broadway Peggy Pope 1969 Off - Broadway Jennifer Darling 1970 Television Raph Wolfs 1972 Television Jet Naessens Television Anne Stallybrass 1980 Television Annette Crosbie Film Tracy Harvey 1988 Television Abigail McKern Film Imelda Staunton 1999 Off - Broadway Dana Slamp 2003 Television Maureen Beattie 2009 Off - Broadway Julie White 2012 Off - Broadway Katie Alto References Guide to Twelfth Night Analysis of Major Characters in Twelfth Night Summary of Twelfth Night and Characters William Shakespeare Plays Tragedies Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Comedies All 's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love 's Labour 's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night 's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre * The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen * The Winter 's Tale Histories King John Edward III * Richard II Henry IV Henry V Henry VI 1 * Richard III Henry VIII * See also Problem plays Late romances Characters A -- K L -- Z Ghost character Chronology Performances Settings Scenes Quarto publications First Folio Second Folio Poems Shakespeare 's sonnets comparison to Petrarch A Lover 's Complaint The Phoenix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Apocrypha Plays Arden of Faversham The Birth of Merlin Cardenio * Double Falsehood Edmund Ironside Fair Em Locrine The London Prodigal Love 's Labour 's Won The Merry Devil of Edmonton Mucedorus The Puritan The Second Maiden 's Tragedy Sejanus His Fall Sir John Oldcastle Sir Thomas More * The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Lord Cromwell Thomas of Woodstock Vortigern and Rowena A Yorkshire Tragedy Poems The Passionate Pilgrim To the Queen Life and works Birthplace and childhood home Bibliography Complete Works of William Shakespeare Translations Early editions Editors English Renaissance theatre Globe Theatre Handwriting Lord Chamberlain 's Men / King 's Men The Theatre Curtain Theatre New Place Portraits Religious views Sexuality Spelling of his name Stratford - upon - Avon Style Will Legacy Attribution studies Authorship question Influence Memorials Screen adaptations Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare 's Globe ( replica ) Bardolatry Titles of works taken from Shakespeare Family Anne Hathaway ( wife ) Susanna Hall ( daughter ) Hamnet Shakespeare ( son ) Judith Quiney ( daughter ) Elizabeth Barnard ( granddaughter ) John Shakespeare ( father ) Mary Arden ( mother ) Gilbert Shakespeare ( brother ) Joan Shakespeare ( sister ) Edmund Shakespeare ( brother ) Richard Shakespeare ( grandfather ) John Hall ( son - in - law ) Thomas Quiney ( son - in - law ) Thomas Nash ( grandson - in - law ) * Shakespeare and other authors Lost William Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night Characters Viola Orsino Olivia Sebastian Malvolio Maria Sir Toby Belch Sir Andrew Aguecheek Feste On screen 1933 1955 1966 1980 ( TV ) 1986 1988 ( TV ) 1992 ( TV ) Musical Your Own Thing ( 1968 ) Music Is ( 1976 ) Play On ! ( 1997 ) Illyria ( 2004 ) All Shook Up ( 2004 ) Adaptations Just One of the Guys ( 1985 ) Motocrossed ( 2001 ) She 's the Man ( 2006 ) Dil Bole Hadippa ! ( 2009 ) Opera Viola ( unfinished ) This article about a literature character is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_(Twelfth_Night)&oldid=855739256 '' Categories : Characters in Twelfth Night Female Shakespearean characters Literary character stubs Hidden categories : Articles with short description Pages using deprecated image syntax Articles using Infobox character with multiple unlabeled fields All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 20 August 2018, at 14 : 09 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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Question: who does maria fall in love with in twelfth night
Answer: Sir Toby Belch