Margherita Buy
Known for: Acting
Born: January 15, 1962
Place of birth: Rome, Italy
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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Filmography
90 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
4.7
Twin Stars
2026
6.8
Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli
2025
6.1
Group Therapy
2024
6.4
Trifole
2024
7.9
RIPLEY
2024
5.3
Flying
2024
6.5
Romeo Is Juliet
2024
6.2
Ten Minutes
2024
NR
Amleto è mio fratello
2023
7.0
A Brighter Tomorrow
2023
6.7
The First Day of My Life
2023
8.0
Exterior Night
2022
4.2
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
7.9
Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte
2022
7.8
Esterno Notte - Prima Parte
2022
5.5
7 Women and a Murder
2021
9.5
We Are Cinema
2021
6.3
Three Floors
2021
7.2
The Great Silence
2021
5.8
Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020
6.5
Made in Italy
2019
5.9
The King's Musketeers
2018
6.1
Just Believe
2018
7.3
Belve
2018
5.4
Piccoli crimini coniugali
2017
6.8
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
NR
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
6.1
La vita possibile
2016
4.5
These Days
2016
6.0
Two Stepmoms
2016
6.0
Me, Myself and Her
2015
5.7
Burning Love
2015
6.6
Mia madre
2015
4.8
Well-Off People
2014
NR
Io... donna
2013
5.6
Carlo!
2013
5.1
Mi rifaccio vivo
2013
5.7
A Five Star Life
2013
7.6
In Treatment
2013
5.2
Discovery at Dawn
2013
6.0
The Red and the Blue
2012
8.0
6 sull'autobus
2012
6.4
A Magnificent Haunting
2012
5.3
Love Is in the Air
2012
5.5
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
5.0
30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
2011
6.8
We Have a Pope
2011
5.2
Weddings and Other Disasters
2010
6.4
Happy Family
2010
5.5
Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010
6.3
The Cézanne Affair
2009
6.1
Pinocchio
2009
NR
Pinocchio
2009
5.7
The White Space
2009
7.2
The Ladies Get Their Say
2009
NR
Amiche mie
2008
6.8
Days and Clouds
2007
6.9
Saturn in Opposition
2007
4.2
Commediasexi
2006
7.2
The Unknown Woman
2006
6.7
The Caiman
2006
5.8
The Days of Abandonment
2005
5.8
The Manual of Love
2005
8.0
L'ombra cinese
2004
8.1
La trappola di Maigret
2004
6.1
Love Returns
2004
5.6
The Vanity Serum
2004
6.5
Caterina in the Big City
2003NR
Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
2003
6.4
Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
2003
6.4
The Best Day of My Life
2002
7.3
His Secret Life
2001
6.2
Against the Wind
2000
7.0
The Shadow of the Giant
2000
6.1
Tutto l'amore che c'è
2000
8.2
Sweet Idleness
1999
6.5
Not of This World
1999
NR
La Vita Che Verrà
1999
7.9
Incompreso
1998
7.5
An Eyewitness Account
1997
4.4
Love, Money and Philosophy
1996
6.1
Follow Your Heart
1996
5.0
Bits & Pieces
1996
5.8
Looking for Paradise
1995
6.6
Le fils préféré
1994
5.4
Prestazione straordinaria
1994
4.5
Condemned to Be Wed
1993
6.1
Here Comes the Storm
1993
6.5
Cominciò tutto per caso
1993
6.6
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
1992
5.6
Ask for the Moon
1991
4.9
La settimana della sfinge
1990
6.5
The Station
1990
10.0
Nulla ci può fermare
1989
7.0
Stray Days
1988
6.1
It's Happening Tomorrow
19888.0
Flipper
1983
7.9
Sanremo Music Festival
1951NR
La casa in fiamme
—NR
Your Little Matter
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