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.
Filmography
Twin Stars
2026
as Rossana
Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli
2025
as Emma Corcos
Group Therapy
2024
Trifole
2024
as Marta
Flying
2024
as Annabì
Romeo Is Juliet
2024
as Clara
Ten Minutes
2024
as Giovanna Brabanti
Amleto è mio fratello
2023
A Brighter Tomorrow
2023
as Paola
The First Day of My Life
2023
as Arianna
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
as Diana
Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte
2022
as Eleonora Moro
Esterno Notte - Prima Parte
2022
as Eleonora Moro
7 Women and a Murder
2021
as Margherita
We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Three Floors
2021
as Dora
The Great Silence
2021
as Rose
Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020
as Queen Anne of Austria
The King's Musketeers
2018
as Regina Anna d'Austria
Just Believe
2018
as Adriana Alberti
Piccoli crimini coniugali
2017
as Moglie di Elia
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
as Dir. Silvia Rufini
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
as Self
La vita possibile
2016
as Anna