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