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Margherita Buy

Margherita Buy

Actor · Born January 15, 1962 · Rome, Italy

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Biography

Margherita Buy (born 15 January 1962) is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and seven-time Nastro d'argento winner. After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's Una grande storia d'amore (1986), which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects It's Happening Tomorrow (1988) and The Week of the Sphinx (1990). For the last one, she won the best performance by an actress in a leading role award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Now Margherita Buy is one of the most appreciated actresses of European cinema: Ferzan Özpetek's The Ignorant Fairies, in which she portrayed a widow who discovered her husband had been having an affair with a man for the last seven years won her a Silver Ribbon as best lead.

Acted in 92

2020s

  1. 2026
  2. 2025

    Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli

    Emma Corcos

  3. 2024

    Group Therapy

    Annamaria

  4. Flying

    Annabì

  5. Romeo Is Juliet

    Clara

  6. Ten Minutes

    Giovanna Brabanti

  7. 2023

    Amleto è mio fratello

    Movie

  8. The First Day of My Life

    Arianna

  9. 2022
  10. Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte

    Eleonora Moro

  11. Esterno Notte - Prima Parte

    Eleonora Moro

  12. 2021
  13. The Great Silence

    Rose

  14. 2020

    Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti

    Queen Anne of Austria

2010s

  1. 2019

    Made in Italy

    Rita Pasini · 8 episodes

  2. 2018

    The King's Musketeers

    Regina Anna d'Austria

  3. Just Believe

    Adriana Alberti

  4. 2017

    Piccoli crimini coniugali

    Moglie di Elia

  5. 2016

    How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

    Dir. Silvia Rufini

  6. La vita possibile

    Anna

  7. Two Stepmoms

    Lucia

  8. 2015

    Me, Myself and Her

    Federica Salvini

  9. Burning Love

    Madre Leonardo Film

  10. 2014

    Well-Off People

    Carla

  11. 2013

    Io... donna

    Clara

  12. Mi rifaccio vivo

    Virginia Di Valerio

  13. A Five Star Life

    Irene

  14. Discovery at Dawn

    Caterina Astengo

  15. 2012

    The Red and the Blue

    Preside Giuliana

  16. 6 sull'autobus

    Movie

  17. A Magnificent Haunting

    Lea Mami

  18. Love Is in the Air

    Luigia

  19. 2011

    30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente

    Movie

  20. 2010
  21. Happy Family

    Margherita

  22. Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso

    Rossana

2000s

  1. 2009

    The Cézanne Affair

    Anna

  2. Pinocchio

    Maestrina

  3. Pinocchio

    La maestra · 2 episodes

  4. The White Space

    Maria

  5. The Ladies Get Their Say

    Gabriella

  6. 2008

    Amiche mie

    Anna · 1 episode

  7. 2007

    Days and Clouds

    Elsa

  8. Saturn in Opposition

    Angelica

  9. 2006

    Commediasexi

    Dora

  10. The Caiman

    Paola Bonomo

  11. 2005
  12. 2004

    L'ombra cinese

    Louise Maigret

  13. La trappola di Maigret

    Louise Maigret

  14. Love Returns

    Silvia

  15. The Vanity Serum

    Lucia Allasco

  16. 2003
  17. Ma che colpa abbiamo noi

    Flavia

  18. 2002

    The Best Day of My Life

    Sara Mazzoni

  19. 2001

    His Secret Life

    Antonia

  20. 2000

    Against the Wind

    Clara

  21. The Shadow of the Giant

    Adele

  22. Tutto l'amore che c'è

    Marisa

1990s

  1. 1999

    Sweet Idleness

    Countess Gabriella Nencini

  2. Not of This World

    Caterina

  3. La Vita Che Verrà

    Viviana Vitanza · 4 episodes

  4. 1998

    Incompreso

    Elisa Quaratesi

  5. 1997

    An Eyewitness Account

    Franca Nava

  6. 1996

    Love, Money and Philosophy

    Lucia

  7. Follow Your Heart

    Olga da giovane

  8. Bits & Pieces

    Movie

  9. 1995

    Looking for Paradise

    Claudia Bertelli

  10. 1994

    Le fils préféré

    Anna Maria

  11. Prestazione straordinaria

    Clara Guerri

  12. 1993

    Condemned to Be Wed

    Sandra

  13. Here Comes the Storm

    Eugenia Fontana

  14. Cominciò tutto per caso

    Stefania

  15. 1992

    Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

    Camilla

  16. 1991

    Ask for the Moon

    Elena Bacchelli

  17. 1990

    La settimana della sfinge

    Gloria

  18. The Station

    Flavia

1980s

  1. 1989

    Nulla ci può fermare

    Francesca

  2. 1988

    Stray Days

    Annalisa

  3. It's Happening Tomorrow

    Vera

  4. 1983

    Flipper

    Annina · 2 episodes

Wrote 2

2020s

  1. 2024

    Flying

    Writer

2010s

  1. 2016

    Two Stepmoms

    Story

Directed 1

2020s

  1. 2024

    Flying

    Director

Appearances5

2020s

  1. 2021

    We Are Cinema

    Self (archive footage)

2010s

  1. 2016

    Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'

    Self

  2. 2013

    Carlo!

    Herself

  3. 2012

    Monicelli: La versione di Mario

    Self