Margherita Buy

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.

Known For

Sanremo Music Festival

RIPLEY

Belve

In Treatment

Exterior Night

The Unknown Woman

Pinocchio

7 Women and a Murder

All Movies (90)

• Twin Stars2026 · as Rossana
• Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli2025 · as Emma Corcos
• Una terapia di gruppo2024
• Trifole2024 · as Marta
• Flying2024 · as Annabì
• Romeo Is Juliet2024 · as Clara
• Ten Minutes2024 · as Giovanna Brabanti
• Amleto è mio fratello2023
• A Brighter Tomorrow2023 · as Paola
• The First Day of My Life2023 · as Arianna
• Tell It Like a Woman2022 · as Diana
• Esterno Notte (Parte II)2022 · as Eleonora Moro
• Esterno notte (Parte I)2022 · as Eleonora Moro
• 7 Women and a Murder2021 · as Margherita
• We Are Cinema2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Three Floors2021 · as Dora
• The Great Silence2021 · as Rose
• Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti2020 · as Queen Anne of Austria
• The King's Musketeers2018 · as Regina Anna d'Austria
• Just Believe2018 · as Adriana Alberti
• Piccoli crimini coniugali2017 · as Moglie di Elia
• How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents2016 · as Dir. Silvia Rufini
• Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'2016 · as Self
• La vita possibile2016 · as Anna
• These Days2016 · as Adria
• Two Stepmoms2016 · as Lucia
• Me, Myself and Her2015 · as Federica Salvini
• Burning Love2015 · as Madre Leonardo Film
• Mia madre2015 · as Margherita
• Well-Off People2014 · as Carla
• Io... donna2013 · as Clara
• Carlo!2013 · as Herself
• Mi rifaccio vivo2013 · as Virginia Di Valerio
• A Five Star Life2013 · as Irene
• Discovery at Dawn2013 · as Caterina Astengo
• The Red and the Blue2012 · as Preside Giuliana
• 6 sull'autobus2012
• A Magnificent Haunting2012 · as Lea Mami
• Love Is in the Air2012 · as Luigia
• Monicelli: La versione di Mario2012 · as Self
• 30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente2011
• We Have a Pope2011 · as Brezzi's Wife
• Weddings and Other Disasters2010 · as Nanà
• Happy Family2010 · as Margherita
• Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso2010 · as Rossana
• The Cézanne Affair2009 · as Anna
• Pinocchio2009 · as Maestrina
• The White Space2009 · as Maria
• The Ladies Get Their Say2009 · as Gabriella
• Days and Clouds2007 · as Elsa
• Saturn in Opposition2007 · as Angelica
• Commediasexi2006 · as Dora
• The Unknown Woman2006 · as Avvocatessa di Irena
• The Caiman2006 · as Paola Bonomo
• The Days of Abandonment2005 · as Olga
• The Manual of Love2005 · as Barbara
• L'ombra cinese2004 · as Louise Maigret
• La trappola di Maigret2004 · as Louise Maigret
• Love Returns2004 · as Silvia
• The Vanity Serum2004 · as Lucia Allasco
• Caterina in the Big City2003 · as Agata Iacovoni
• Margherita, ritratto confidenziale2003 · as Self
• Ma che colpa abbiamo noi2003 · as Flavia
• The Best Day of My Life2002 · as Sara Mazzoni
• His Secret Life2001 · as Antonia
• Against the Wind2000 · as Clara
• The Shadow of the Giant2000 · as Adele
• Tutto l'amore che c'è2000 · as Marisa
• Sweet Idleness1999 · as Countess Gabriella Nencini
• Not of This World1999 · as Caterina
• Incompreso1998 · as Elisa Quaratesi
• An Eyewitness Account1997 · as Franca Nava
• Love, Money and Philosophy1996 · as Lucia
• Follow Your Heart1996 · as Olga da giovane
• Bits & Pieces1996
• Looking for Paradise1995 · as Claudia Bertelli
• Le fils préféré1994 · as Anna Maria
• Prestazione straordinaria1994 · as Clara Guerri
• Condemned to Be Wed1993 · as Sandra
• Here Comes the Storm1993 · as Eugenia Fontana
• Cominciò tutto per caso1993 · as Stefania
• Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato1992 · as Camilla
• Ask for the Moon1991 · as Elena Bacchelli
• La settimana della sfinge1990 · as Gloria
• The Station1990 · as Flavia
• Nulla ci può fermare1989 · as Francesca
• Stray Days1988 · as Annalisa
• It's Happening Tomorrow1988 · as Vera
• La casa in fiamme—
• Dove non mi hai portata—

All TV Shows (9)

• RIPLEY2024 · as Sig. Silvana Buffi
• Exterior Night2022 · as Eleonora Chiavarelli
• Made in Italy2019 · as Rita Pasini
• Belve2018
• In Treatment2013 · as Rita
• Pinocchio2009 · as La maestra
• Amiche mie2008 · as Anna
• Flipper1983 · as Annina
• Sanremo Music Festival1951 · as Self - Special Guest