
Highest rated as cast or director
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
- 2026
- 2025
Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli
Emma Corcos
- 2024
Group Therapy
Annamaria
Flying
Annabì
Romeo Is Juliet
Clara
Ten Minutes
Giovanna Brabanti
- 2023
Amleto è mio fratello
Movie
The First Day of My Life
Arianna
- 2022
Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte
Eleonora Moro
Esterno Notte - Prima Parte
Eleonora Moro
- 2021
The Great Silence
Rose
- 2020
Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
Queen Anne of Austria
2010s
- 2019
Made in Italy
Rita Pasini · 8 episodes
- 2018
The King's Musketeers
Regina Anna d'Austria
Just Believe
Adriana Alberti
- 2017
Piccoli crimini coniugali
Moglie di Elia
- 2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Dir. Silvia Rufini
La vita possibile
Anna
Two Stepmoms
Lucia
- 2015
Me, Myself and Her
Federica Salvini
Burning Love
Madre Leonardo Film
- 2014
Well-Off People
Carla
- 2013
Io... donna
Clara
Mi rifaccio vivo
Virginia Di Valerio
A Five Star Life
Irene
Discovery at Dawn
Caterina Astengo
- 2012
The Red and the Blue
Preside Giuliana
6 sull'autobus
Movie
A Magnificent Haunting
Lea Mami
Love Is in the Air
Luigia
- 2011
30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
Movie
- 2010
Happy Family
Margherita
Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Rossana
2000s
- 2009
The Cézanne Affair
Anna
Pinocchio
Maestrina
Pinocchio
La maestra · 2 episodes
The White Space
Maria
The Ladies Get Their Say
Gabriella
- 2008
Amiche mie
Anna · 1 episode
- 2007
Days and Clouds
Elsa
Saturn in Opposition
Angelica
- 2006
Commediasexi
Dora
The Caiman
Paola Bonomo
- 2005
- 2004
L'ombra cinese
Louise Maigret
La trappola di Maigret
Louise Maigret
Love Returns
Silvia
The Vanity Serum
Lucia Allasco
- 2003
Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
Flavia
- 2002
The Best Day of My Life
Sara Mazzoni
- 2001
His Secret Life
Antonia
- 2000
Against the Wind
Clara
The Shadow of the Giant
Adele
Tutto l'amore che c'è
Marisa
1990s
- 1999
Sweet Idleness
Countess Gabriella Nencini
Not of This World
Caterina
La Vita Che Verrà
Viviana Vitanza · 4 episodes
- 1998
Incompreso
Elisa Quaratesi
- 1997
An Eyewitness Account
Franca Nava
- 1996
Love, Money and Philosophy
Lucia
Follow Your Heart
Olga da giovane
Bits & Pieces
Movie
- 1995
Looking for Paradise
Claudia Bertelli
- 1994
Le fils préféré
Anna Maria
Prestazione straordinaria
Clara Guerri
- 1993
Condemned to Be Wed
Sandra
Here Comes the Storm
Eugenia Fontana
Cominciò tutto per caso
Stefania
- 1992
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
Camilla
- 1991
Ask for the Moon
Elena Bacchelli
- 1990
La settimana della sfinge
Gloria
The Station
Flavia
1980s
- 1989
Nulla ci può fermare
Francesca
- 1988
Stray Days
Annalisa
It's Happening Tomorrow
Vera
- 1983
Flipper
Annina · 2 episodes
Wrote 2
2020s
- 2024
Flying
Writer
2010s
- 2016
Two Stepmoms
Story
Directed 1
2020s
- 2024
Flying
Director
Appearances5
2020s
- 2021
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2010s
- 2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
- 2013
Carlo!
Herself
- 2012
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self





