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
Una terapia di gruppo
2024
Trifole
Marta
2024
RIPLEY
Sig. Silvana Buffi · (4 episodes)
2024
Volare
Annabì
2024
Romeo Is Juliet
Clara
2024
Ten Minutes
2024
Amleto è mio fratello
2023
A Brighter Tomorrow
Paola
2023
The First Day of My Life
Arianna
2023
Exterior Night
Eleonora Moro · (6 episodes)
2022
Tell It Like a Woman
Diana
2022
Esterno Notte (part II)
Eleonora Moro
2022
Esterno Notte (part I)
Eleonora Moro
2022
7 Women and a Murder
Margherita
2021
We Are Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2021
Three Floors
Dora
2021
The Great Silence
2021
Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
Queen Anne of Austria
2020
Made in Italy
Rita Pasini · (8 episodes)
2019
The King's Musketeers
Regina Anna d'Austria
2018
Just Believe
Adriana Alberti
2018
Belve
(1 episode)
2018
Piccoli crimini coniugali
Moglie di Elia
2017
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Dir. Silvia Rufini
2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
Self
2016
La vita possibile
Anna
2016
These Days
Adria
2016
Two Stepmoms
Lucia
2016
Me, Myself and Her
Federica Salvini
2015
Burning Love
Madre Leonardo Film
2015
Mia madre
Margherita
2015
Well-Off People
Carla
2014
Io... donna
Clara
2013
Carlo!
Herself
2013
Mi rifaccio vivo
Virginia Di Valerio
2013
A Five Star Life
Irene
2013
In Treatment
Rita · (7 episodes)
2013
Discovery at Dawn
Caterina Astengo
2013
Il rosso e il blu
Preside Giuliana
2012
6 sull'autobus
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
Lea Mami
2012
Love Is in the Air
Luigia
2012
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self
2012
30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
2011
We Have a Pope
Moglie di Brezzi
2011
Weddings and Other Disasters
Nanà
2010
Happy Family
Margherita
2010
Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Rossana
2010
The Cézanne Affair
Anna
2009
Pinocchio
Maestrina
2009
Pinocchio
La maestra · (2 episodes)
2009
The White Space
Maria
2009
The Ladies Get Their Say
Gabriella
2009
Amiche mie
Anna · (1 episode)
2008
Days and Clouds
Elsa
2007
Saturn in Opposition
Angelica
2007
Commediasexi
Dora
2006
The Unknown Woman
Avvocatessa di Irena
2006
The Caiman
Paola Bonomo
2006
The Days of Abandonment
Olga
2005
The Manual of Love
Barbara
2005
L'ombra cinese
Louise Maigret
2004
La trappola di Maigret
Louise Maigret
2004
Love Returns
Silvia
2004
The Vanity Serum
Lucia Allasco
2004
Caterina in the Big City
Agata Iacovoni
2003
Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
Self
2003
Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
Flavia
2003
The Best Day of My Life
Sara Mazzoni
2002
His Secret Life
Antonia
2001
Against the wind
Clara
2000
The Shadow of the Giant
Adele
2000
Tutto l'amore che c'è
Marisa
2000
Sweet Idleness
Countess Gabriella Nencini
1999
Not of this World
Sister Caterina
1999
Incompreso
Elisa Quaratesi
1998
An Eyewitness Account
Franca Nava
1997
Love, Money and Philosophy
Lucia
1996
Follow Your Heart
Olga da giovane
1996
Bits & Pieces
1996
Looking for Paradise
Claudia Bertelli
1995
Le fils préféré
Anna Maria
1994
Prestazione straordinaria
Clara Guerri
1994
Condannato a nozze
Sandra
1993
Arriva la bufera
Eugenia Fontana
1993
Cominciò tutto per caso
Stefania
1993
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
Camilla
1992
Ask for the Moon
Elena Bacchelli
1991
La settimana della sfinge
Gloria
1990
The Station
Flavia
1990
Nulla ci può fermare
Francesca
1989
Stray Days
Annalisa
1988
It's Happening Tomorrow
Vera
1988
Sanremo Music Festival
Self - Special Guest · (1 episode)
1951