María Baxa

{{Short description|Serbian actress (1946–2019)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = María Baxa

| image =

| native_name = Марија Бакса

| native_name_lang = sr

| caption = Maria Baxa in 1970

| birth_name = María Teresa Baxa

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1946|4|15}}

| birth_place = Osijek, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
(now Croatia)

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2019|11|14|1946|4|15}}

| death_place = Belgrade, Serbia

| occupation = Actress

}}

María Baxa (born Marija Baksa, {{lang-sr-Cyrl|Марија Бакса|translit=}}; 15 April 1946 – 14 November 2019) was an Italian-Serbian film actress, mainly active in Italian cinema.[http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=3523 mymovies.it]

Born in Osijek, Baxa made her film debut in Branko Čelović's Bokseri idu u raj, then moved to Italy where she became a popular starlet in Italian genre cinema,{{cite book|title=Il Dramma, Edizioni 7-12|year=1970}} especially in commedia sexy all'italiana (sex comedies). In the late 1980s, Baxa left showbusiness to be an architect.{{cite book|last=Michele Giordano, Daniele Aramu|title=La commedia erotica italiana: vent'anni di cinema sexy made in Italy|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2000}}