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