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Name
Maya Sansa

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1975-09-25 (51 years old)

Place of Birth
Rome, Italy

Biography

Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress.

Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was soon picked by Marco Bellocchio to take part in his new film: La balia. Maya later worked with Bellocchio for a second time, starring in the film Goodmorning, Night. Sansa has also worked with Marco Tullio Giordana in the film The Best of Youth.

On 2 May 2004 The New York Times published an article which named her as the new image of Italian cinema.

On 14 June 2013, she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dormant Beauty.

She has a daughter, Talitha, with her partner Fabrice Scott with whom she lives in Paris.

Source: Article "Maya Sansa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2016 Looking for Monica
2003 Good Morning, Night as Chiara
2000 Nella terra di nessuno as Katia
2003 The Best of Youth as Mirella Utano
2008 Female Agents as Maria Luzzato
2002 Gasoline as Stella
2009 The Man Who Will Come as Lena
2004 An Italian Romance as Maria
2023 My Paper Dolls as Anna Bottacin
2010 Un Altro Mondo as Ingrid
2010 The Black Sheep as Marinella
2011 The First Man as Catherine Cormery (1924)
2004 Il vestito da sposa as Stella
2009 Il prossimo tuo as Maddalena
2010 Two Sunny Days as Martina
2012 Dormant Beauty as Rossa
2013 Cycling with Molière as Francesca
2011 Meeting with an Angel as Véra
2022 Revoir Paris as Sara
2011 See How They Dance as Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
1999 The Nanny as Annetta
2009 La voce naturale - Giving Voice as Se stessa
2007 Fuori dalle corde as Anna Lo Russo
2023 With The Grace Of a God as Claudia
2014 The Good Life as Elena
2015 Storie sospese as Giovanna
2015 The Lithium Conspiracy as Valeria Petri
2012 The Woman Dress as The Woman
2008 The Third Part of the World as Chiara
2016 La verità sta in cielo as Maria
2017 The Royal Exchange as Elisabeth Farnese
2014 The show MAS go on
2000 A Thread of Passion
2014 Under the Starry Sky as Ada
2009 Villa Amalia as Giulia
2019 The Truth
2006 The Listening as Francesca
2000 Lupo mannaro as Maria Grazia
2019 I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro as Silvana
2019 The App
2020 You Came Back as Clara Fasani
2021 Security as Claudia Raffaelli Santini
2008 All Human Rights for All
2020 Amo la tempesta
2019 Sisters in Arms as Mother Sun
2022 The Peacock’s Paradise as Caterina
2022 Azuro as Gina
2022 My Night as Doctor
2002 La vita degli altri as Silvia
2009 David Copperfield as Agnes Wickfield
2005 Contronatura
2024 Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema as Self

2015 Tutto può succedere ( 42 episodes ) as Sara Ferraro
2024 A Dangerous Friendship ( 4 episodes ) as Marie de Médicis
2018 Collateral ( 2 episodes ) as Berna Yalaz
2022 Irma Vep ( 1 episode ) as Gregory's Wife
2003 The Best of Youth ( 4 episodes ) as Mirella Utano
2023 The Firebrands ( 5 episodes ) as Chiara
2013 In Treatment ( 7 episodes ) as Irene
2025 The Iris Affair ( 8 episodes ) as Inspector Nico Casterman
2023 Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila ( 6 episodes ) as Anna Conti
2020 Redemption ( 8 episodes ) as Sara
2008 Einstein ( 2 episodes ) as Mileva Marić
2026 In Utero ( 8 episodes ) as Fotoreporter
2009 David Copperfield ( 2 episodes ) as Agnes Wickfield

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