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