Name
Margherita Buy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1962-01-15 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
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.
Known For
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Tell It Like A Woman comprises of seven segments that are directed by female directors fro...
- 2006 The Unknown Woman as Avvocatessa di Irena
- 2005 The Manual of Love as Barbara
- 2024 Ten Minutes as Giovanna Brabanti
- 2022 Tell It Like a Woman as Diana
- 2007 Saturn in Opposition as Angelica
- 2001 His Secret Life as Antonia
- 2006 The Caiman as Paola Bonomo
- 2021 7 Women and a Murder as Margherita
- 2002 The Best Day of My Life as Sara Mazzoni
- 2007 Days and Clouds as Elsa
- 2009 Pinocchio as Maestrina
- 2010 Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso as Rossana
- 2010 Happy Family as Margherita
- 2011 We Have a Pope as Brezzi's Wife
- 2003 Ma che colpa abbiamo noi as Flavia
- 2016 Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' as Self
- 2006 Commediasexi as Dora
- 2009 The Cézanne Affair as Anna
- 1999 Not of This World as Caterina
- 2010 Weddings and Other Disasters as Nanà
- 2005 The Days of Abandonment as Olga
- 1988 It's Happening Tomorrow as Vera
- 1994 Le fils préféré as Anna Maria
- 1996 Love, Money and Philosophy as Lucia
- 1990 The Station as Flavia
- 2023 A Brighter Tomorrow as Paola
- 1992 Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato as Camilla
- 2009 The White Space as Maria
- 2004 Love Returns as Silvia
- 2004 The Vanity Serum as Lucia Allasco
- 2000 Tutto l'amore che c'è as Marisa
- 2009 The Ladies Get Their Say as Gabriella
- 2012 Monicelli: La versione di Mario as Self
- 1996 Bits & Pieces
- 1996 Follow Your Heart as Olga da giovane
- 2012 A Magnificent Haunting as Lea Mami
- 1993 Here Comes the Storm as Eugenia Fontana
- 2024 Flying as Annabì
- 2012 The Red and the Blue as Preside Giuliana
- 2013 Mi rifaccio vivo as Virginia Di Valerio
- 1995 Looking for Paradise as Claudia Bertelli
- 1991 Ask for the Moon as Elena Bacchelli
- 1998 Incompreso as Elisa Quaratesi
- 2013 A Five Star Life as Irene
- 1990 La settimana della sfinge as Gloria
- 2013 Discovery at Dawn as Caterina Astengo
- 2004 L'ombra cinese as Louise Maigret
- 2023 Amleto è mio fratello
- 2013 Carlo! as Herself
- 2022 Esterno Notte - Prima Parte as Eleonora Moro
- 2022 Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte as Eleonora Moro
- 2014 Well-Off People as Carla
- 1994 Prestazione straordinaria as Clara Guerri
- 1989 Nulla ci può fermare as Francesca
- 2024 Romeo Is Juliet as Clara
- 1993 Condemned to Be Wed as Sandra
- 2004 La trappola di Maigret as Louise Maigret
- 2000 The Shadow of the Giant as Adele
- 2024 Trifole as Marta
- 2015 Mia madre as Margherita
- 1993 Cominciò tutto per caso as Stefania
- 2021 We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 6 sull'autobus
- 2015 Me, Myself and Her as Federica Salvini
- 2016 Two Stepmoms as Lucia
- 2016 These Days as Adria
- 1997 An Eyewitness Account as Franca Nava
- 2016 La vita possibile as Anna
- 2003 Caterina in the Big City as Agata Iacovoni
- 2011 30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
- 2016 How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents as Dir. Silvia Rufini
- 2024 Group Therapy
- 2017 Piccoli crimini coniugali as Moglie di Elia
- 2012 Love Is in the Air as Luigia
- 2018 Just Believe as Adriana Alberti
- 1988 Stray Days as Annalisa
- 2018 The King's Musketeers as Regina Anna d'Austria
- 1999 Sweet Idleness as Countess Gabriella Nencini
- 2015 Burning Love as Madre Leonardo Film
- 2021 Three Floors as Dora
- 2000 Against the Wind as Clara
- 2020 Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti as Queen Anne of Austria
- 2021 The Great Silence as Rose
- 2023 The First Day of My Life as Arianna
- 2003 Margherita, ritratto confidenziale as Self
- 2013 Io... donna as Clara
- 2025 Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli as Emma Corcos
- 2026 Twin Stars as Rossana
- Soon La casa in fiamme
- Soon Your Little Matter
- 2008 Amiche mie ( 1 episode ) as Anna
- 2009 Pinocchio ( 2 episodes ) as La maestra
- 1951 Sanremo Music Festival ( 1 episode ) as Self - Special Guest
- 2024 RIPLEY ( 4 episodes ) as Sig. Silvana Buffi
- 2013 In Treatment ( 7 episodes ) as Rita
- 2019 Made in Italy ( 8 episodes ) as Rita Pasini
- 2022 Exterior Night ( 6 episodes ) as Eleonora Chiavarelli
- 2018 Belve ( 1 episode )
- 1983 Flipper ( 2 episodes ) as Annina
- 1999 La Vita Che Verrà ( 4 episodes ) as Viviana Vitanza
