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