Maya Sansa
Acting • Born 1975-09-25
Biography
Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress. Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was soon picked by Marco Bellocchio to take part in his new film: La balia. Maya later worked with Bellocchio for a second time, starring in the film Goodmorning, Night. Sansa has also worked with Marco Tullio Giordana in the film The Best of Youth. On 2 May 2004 The New York Times published an article which named her as the new image of Italian cinema. On 14 June 2013, she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dormant Beauty. She has a daughter, Talitha, with her partner Fabrice Scott with whom she lives in Paris. Source: Article "Maya Sansa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
63 credits
Looking for Monica
Movie • 2016
Good Morning, Night
Movie • 2003
Chiara
Nella terra di nessuno
Movie • 2000
Katia
The Best of Youth
Movie • 2003
Mirella Utano
Female Agents
Movie • 2008
Maria Luzzato
Gasoline
Movie • 2002
Stella
The Man Who Will Come
Movie • 2009
Lena
An Italian Romance
Movie • 2004
Maria
My Paper Dolls
Movie • 2023
Anna Bottacin
Un altro mondo
Movie • 2010
Ingrid
The Black Sheep
Movie • 2010
Marinella
The First Man
Movie • 2011
Catherine Cormery (1924)
Il vestito da sposa
Movie • 2004
Stella
Il prossimo tuo
Movie • 2009
Maddalena
Two Sunny Days
Movie • 2010
Martina
Dormant Beauty
Movie • 2012
Rossa
Cycling with Molière
Movie • 2013
Francesca
Meeting with an Angel
Movie • 2011
Véra
Revoir Paris
Movie • 2022
Sara
See How They Dance
Movie • 2011
Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
The Nanny
Movie • 1999
Annetta
La voce naturale - Giving Voice
Movie • 2009
Se stessa
Fuori dalle corde
Movie • 2007
Anna Lo Russo
With The Grace Of a God
Movie • 2023
Claudia
The Good Life
Movie • 2014
Elena
Storie sospese
Movie • 2015
Giovanna
The Lithium Conspiracy
Movie • 2015
Valeria Petri
The Woman Dress
Movie • 2012
The Woman
The Third Part of the World
Movie • 2008
Chiara
La verità sta in cielo
Movie • 2016
Maria
The Royal Exchange
Movie • 2017
Elisabeth Farnese
The show MAS go on
Movie • 2014
A Thread of Passion
Movie • 2000
Under the Starry Sky
Movie • 2014
Ada
Villa Amalia
Movie • 2009
Giulia
The Truth
Movie • 2019
The Listening
Movie • 2006
Francesca
Lupo mannaro
Movie • 2000
Maria Grazia
I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
Movie • 2019
Silvana
The App
Movie • 2019
You Came Back
Movie • 2020
Clara Fasani
Security
Movie • 2021
Claudia Raffaelli Santini
All Human Rights for All
Movie • 2008
Amo la tempesta
Movie • 2020
Sisters in Arms
Movie • 2019
Mother Sun
The Peacock’s Paradise
Movie • 2022
Caterina
Azuro
Movie • 2022
Gina
My Night
Movie • 2022
Doctor
La vita degli altri
Movie • 2002
Silvia
David Copperfield
Movie • 2009
Agnes Wickfield
Contronatura
Movie • 2005
Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema
Movie • 2024
Self
Tutto può succedere
TV • 2015
Sara Ferraro
A Dangerous Friendship
TV • 2024
Marie de Médicis
Collateral
TV • 2018
Berna Yalaz
Irma Vep
TV • 2022
Gregory's Wife
The Best of Youth
TV • 2003
Mirella Utano
The Firebrands
TV • 2023
Chiara
In Treatment
TV • 2013
Irene
The Iris Affair
TV • 2025
Inspector Nico Casterman
Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila
TV • 2023
Anna Conti
Redemption
TV • 2020
Sara
Einstein
TV • 2008
Mileva Marić