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