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