Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi

1960-02-18 Milan, Lombardy, Italy 80 Credits

Biography

Greta Scacchi OMRI (born 18 February 1960) is an Italian-Australian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992), Emma (1996), and Looking for Alibrandi (2000). Her first leading role, in Heat and Dust (1983), earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Film. For her portrayal of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in the television film, Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), she won a Primetime Emmy Award...

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He Ain't Heavy

He Ain't Heavy

2024

as Bev

7.0
Acting

A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save their lives.

Merchant Ivory

Merchant Ivory

2024

as Self

7.7
Acting

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...

Run Rabbit Run

Run Rabbit Run

2024

as Joan

5.6
Acting

Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of h...

I Told You So

I Told You So

2024

as Frances

4.6
Acting

In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, re...

She Stoops To Conquer

She Stoops To Conquer

2024

as Mrs Hardcastle

Acting

Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no fibs. Christmas at Hardcastle Hall, where guests are assured of a hearty welcome. The gramophone is playing ...

The Royal Nanny

The Royal Nanny

2022

as Ms. Juliet Lansbury

6.5
Acting

Claire is an MI5 agent who goes undercover as the royal nanny. She must overcome the challenges of her assignment, like resisting the charms of Prince...

Shepherd

Shepherd

2021

as Glenys Black

5.4
Acting

When a deadly secret rots the mind of a grieving widower, the decision to work alone on a deserted island morphs into a terrifying race to save his sa...

Resurrection

Resurrection

2021

as Mother Mary

6.7
Acting

In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from the dead, they realize...

Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

2019

as Mai

5.9
Acting

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals a...

Palm Beach

Palm Beach

2019

as Charlotte

5.3
Acting

A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding d...

Time of the Sixth Sun

Time of the Sixth Sun

2019

as Voice of the Ancient Mother

Acting

Indigenous Elders, Wisdom Keepers and Visionary Thought Leaders share their knowledge and teachings as you go on an inspiring global cinematic journey...

Head Full of Honey

Head Full of Honey

2018

as Abbess

6.2
Acting

A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkabl...

Amanda

Amanda

2018

as Alison

7.1
Acting

David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Léna, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by ...

Operation Finale

Operation Finale

2018

as Vera Eichmann

6.7
Acting

In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argent...

The Girl in the Fog

The Girl in the Fog

2017

as Beatrice Leman

6.8
Acting

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of f...

Tenderness

Tenderness

2017

as Aurora

6.3
Acting

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he mee...

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

2016

3.5
Acting

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examina...

The White King

The White King

2016

as General Meade

5.4
Acting

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter,...

North v South

North v South

2015

as Mrs Singer

5.1
Acting

For decades the criminal underworlds of the North and South bumped along begrudgingly. Like the Cold War, territories were respected out of the necess...

The Falling

The Falling

2015

as Miss Edith Mantel

5.1
Acting

England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they att...

Un altro mondo

Un altro mondo

2010

as Cristina

7.1
Acting

Andrea is a twentysomething from a rich but cold family who leads a superficial life devoid of responsibility. After receiving a letter from his dying...

Ways to Live Forever

Ways to Live Forever

2010

as Mrs. Willis

7.2
Acting

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he...

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

2008

as Cara

6.3
Acting

Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World W...

Miss Austen Regrets

Miss Austen Regrets

2008

as Cassandra Austen

6.1
Acting

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the per...

Hidden Love

Hidden Love

2007

as D.ssa Dubois

4.5
Acting

A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.

Shoot on Sight

Shoot on Sight

2007

as Susan Ali

6.1
Acting

Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London...

The Handyman

The Handyman

2006

as Julia Parchant

Acting

Follows a lonely spinster, who's living on her own on a secluded farm in the mid-west of the USA. Unable to keep the farm by herself she hires a drift...

Icicle Melt

2006

as Madeleine

Acting

A couple dance and play in the snow yet neither realise they won’t be together in the morning. How will Madeline cope?

The Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation

2006

as Isabel

5.2
Acting

An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western

2006

as self

7.4
Acting

A documentary about the making of the 2006 AMC miniseries Broken Trail.

Wimbledon 2005 Official Film

2005

as Narrator

Acting

Enjoy the highlights and most memorable moments from Wimbledon 2005 with this compilation of clips that celebrates the 119th year of the prestigious t...

Flightplan

Flightplan

2005

as Therapist

6.5
Acting

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...

Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea

2004

as Mary Duvan

6.2
Acting

Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the t...

L'ombra cinese

L'ombra cinese

2004

as Juliette Martin

6.0
Acting

Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

Under a False Name

Under a False Name

2004

as Nicoletta

6.0
Acting

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

Baltic Storm

Baltic Storm

2003

as Julia Reuter

4.7
Acting

A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people ...

Il ronzio delle mosche

Il ronzio delle mosche

2003

as Dottoresa Natalia

Acting
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

2002

as Margaret Thatcher

4.8
Acting

A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.

One of the Hollywood Ten

One of the Hollywood Ten

2002

as Gale Sondergaard

5.5
Acting

Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

Festival in Cannes

Festival in Cannes

2001

as Alice Palmer

5.5
Acting

Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Mi...

Looking for Alibrandi

Looking for Alibrandi

2000

as Christina Alibrandi

6.6
Acting

Josie Alibrandi is 17 and doesn't know where she belongs. This year, however, everything is going to change. Josie will face her fears, uncover secret...

Love & Rage

Love & Rage

2000

as Agnes MacDonnell

5.1
Acting

Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the west coast of Ireland. When she begins a passiona...

The Farm

The Farm

2000

as Liz Cooper

Acting

After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be rep...

Cotton Mary

Cotton Mary

1999

as Lily MacIntosh

4.7
Acting

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.

Ladies Room

Ladies Room

1999

as Lucia

3.8
Acting

In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and t...

Tom's Midnight Garden

Tom's Midnight Garden

1999

as Aunt Gwen Kitson

5.9
Acting

When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bart...

The Manor

The Manor

1999

as Mrs. Ravenscroft

5.8
Acting

The Manor, a dark funny version of Akira Kurosawa's " Rashomon". During a snowstorm, Patrick Roarke, a manservant, is found dead at the bottom of the ...

The Red Violin

The Red Violin

1998

as Victoria Byrd (Oxford)

7.4
Acting

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, En...

Macbeth

Macbeth

1998

as Lady Macbeth

4.2
Acting

William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

1997

as Penelope

Acting

In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a de...

The Serpent's Kiss

The Serpent's Kiss

1997

as Juliana

5.4
Acting

A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.

Emma

Emma

1996

as Mrs. Weston

6.7
Acting

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are ...

Rasputin

Rasputin

1996

as Tsarina Alexandra

6.5
Acting

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of...

Cosi

Cosi

1996

as Mental Patient (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst...

Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris

1995

as Maria Cosway

5.1
Acting

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...

Country Life

Country Life

1994

as Deborah Voysey

5.6
Acting

Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-...

The Browning Version

The Browning Version

1994

as Laura Crocker-Harris

6.5
Acting

Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...

Salt on Our Skin

Salt on Our Skin

1992

as George

5.2
Acting

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They...

The Player

The Player

1992

as June Gudmundsdottir

7.2
Acting

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach

1992

as Judith

4.8
Acting

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes ro...

Robert Altman's Players

Robert Altman's Players

1992

as Self

5.5
Acting

Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).

Shattered

Shattered

1991

as Judith Merrick

6.2
Acting

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life agai...

Fires Within

Fires Within

1991

as Isabel

4.0
Acting

A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husba...

Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent

1990

as Carolyn Polhemus

6.8
Acting

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...

Love and Fear

Love and Fear

1988

as Maria

5.0
Acting

Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta’s f...

Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon

1988

as Angela

5.1
Acting

An Italian-American woman traveling to Sicily picks up a teenager who claims to be in trouble with some drug dealers.

White Mischief

White Mischief

1987

as Diana, Lady Broughton

6.0
Acting

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the...

Good Morning, Babylon

Good Morning, Babylon

1987

as Edna Bonnano

6.2
Acting

After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventu...

A Man in Love

A Man in Love

1987

as Jane Steiner

4.3
Acting

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later th...

Defence of the Realm

Defence of the Realm

1986

as Nina Beckman

6.4
Acting

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenag...

Burke & Wills

Burke & Wills

1985

as Julia Matthews

4.9
Acting

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

The Coca-Cola Kid

The Coca-Cola Kid

1985

as Terri

5.4
Acting

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley o...

Camille

Camille

1984

as Marguerite Gautier

5.6
Acting

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hop...

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

Dr. Fischer of Geneva

1984

as Anna-Luise Fischer

5.6
Acting

Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for mo...

The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower

1984

as Diana, 'The Mouse'

Acting

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ...

Waterfront

Waterfront

1984

as Anna Chieri

Acting

Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & ...

Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust

1983

as Olivia Rivers

6.1
Acting

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her g...

Dead on Time

Dead on Time

1983

6.5
Acting

Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes to...

Second Sight

Second Sight

1982

as Anna

5.2
Acting

A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of dé...

Time & Tide - A Trilogy

Time & Tide - A Trilogy

N/A

Acting

Across the years, a mother watches her gladiator son fight, while she remembers his childhood: the last lighthouse keeper prepares for his final trip ...