Margherita Buy
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.
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Films (89)

Twin Stars
2026 · Rossana

Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli
2025 · Emma Corcos

Group Therapy
2024 · Annamaria

Trifole
2024 · Marta

Flying
2024 · Annabì, Director, Writer

Romeo Is Juliet
2024 · Clara

Ten Minutes
2024 · Giovanna Brabanti

Amleto è mio fratello
2023

Vers un avenir radieux
2023 · Paola

The First Day of My Life
2023 · Arianna

Tell It Like a Woman
2022 · Diana

Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte
2022 · Eleonora Moro

Esterno Notte - Prima Parte
2022 · Eleonora Moro

7 femmes
2021 · Margherita

We Are Cinema
2021 · Self (archive footage)

Tre piani
2021 · Dora

The Great Silence
2021 · Rose

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020 · Queen Anne of Austria

The King's Musketeers
2018 · Regina Anna d'Austria

Just Believe
2018 · Adriana Alberti

Piccoli crimini coniugali
2017 · Moglie di Elia

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016 · Dir. Silvia Rufini

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016 · Self

La vita possibile
2016 · Anna

These Days
2016 · Adria

Two Stepmoms
2016 · Lucia, Story

Elle & moi
2015 · Federica Salvini

Burning Love
2015 · Madre Leonardo Film

Ma mère
2015 · Margherita

Well-Off People
2014 · Carla

Io... donna
2013 · Clara

Carlo!
2013 · Herself

Mi rifaccio vivo
2013 · Virginia Di Valerio

Je voyage seule
2013 · Irene

Discovery at Dawn
2013 · Caterina Astengo

The Red and the Blue
2012 · Preside Giuliana

6 sull'autobus
2012

Magnifica Presenza
2012 · Lea Mami

Love Is in the Air
2012 · Luigia

Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012 · Self

We Have a Pope
2011 · Brezzi's Wife

Mariages et autres catastrophes
2010 · Nanà

Happy Family
2010 · Margherita

Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010 · Rossana

The Cézanne Affair
2009 · Anna

Pinocchio, un cœur de bois
2009 · Maestrina

The White Space
2009 · Maria

The Ladies Get Their Say
2009 · Gabriella

Days and Clouds
2007 · Elsa

Saturno Contro
2007 · Angelica

Commediasexi
2006 · Dora

L'inconnue
2006 · Avvocatessa di Irena

Le Caïman
2006 · Paola Bonomo

The Days of Abandonment
2005 · Olga

Leçons d'amour à l'Italienne
2005 · Barbara

L'ombra cinese
2004 · Louise Maigret

La trappola di Maigret
2004 · Louise Maigret

Love Returns
2004 · Silvia

The Vanity Serum
2004 · Lucia Allasco

Caterina va en ville
2003 · Agata Iacovoni
Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
2003 · Self

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
2003 · Flavia

Le Plus Beau Jour de ma vie
2002 · Sara Mazzoni

Tableau de famille
2001 · Antonia

Against the Wind
2000 · Clara

The Shadow of the Giant
2000 · Adele

Tutto l'amore che c'è
2000 · Marisa

Sweet Idleness
1999 · Countess Gabriella Nencini

Not of This World
1999 · Caterina

Incompreso
1998 · Elisa Quaratesi

An Eyewitness Account
1997 · Franca Nava

Love, Money and Philosophy
1996 · Lucia

Follow Your Heart
1996 · Olga da giovane

Bits & Pieces
1996

Looking for Paradise
1995 · Claudia Bertelli

Le Fils préféré
1994 · Anna Maria

Prestazione straordinaria
1994 · Clara Guerri

Condemned to Be Wed
1993 · Sandra

Here Comes the Storm
1993 · Eugenia Fontana

Cominciò tutto per caso
1993 · Stefania

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
1992 · Camilla

Ask for the Moon
1991 · Elena Bacchelli

La settimana della sfinge
1990 · Gloria

The Station
1990 · Flavia

Nulla ci può fermare
1989 · Francesca

Stray Days
1988 · Annalisa

It's Happening Tomorrow
1988 · Vera
La casa in fiamme
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