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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

He Ain't Heavy
2024
as Bev
A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save their lives.

Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...

Run Rabbit Run
2024
as Joan
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
2024
as Frances
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
2024
as Mrs Hardcastle
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
2022
as Ms. Juliet Lansbury
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
2021
as Glenys Black
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
2021
as Mother Mary
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
2019
as Mai
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
2019
as Charlotte
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
2019
as Voice of the Ancient Mother
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
2018
as Abbess
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
2018
as Alison
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
2018
as Vera Eichmann
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
2017
as Beatrice Leman
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
2017
as Aurora
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
2016
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
2016
as General Meade
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
2015
as Mrs Singer
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
2015
as Miss Edith Mantel
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
2010
as Cristina
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
2010
as Mrs. Willis
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
2008
as Cara
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
2008
as Cassandra Austen
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
2007
as D.ssa Dubois
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.

Shoot on Sight
2007
as Susan Ali
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
2006
as Julia Parchant
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
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
2006
as Isabel
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
2006
as self
A documentary about the making of the 2006 AMC miniseries Broken Trail.
Wimbledon 2005 Official Film
2005
as Narrator
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
2005
as Therapist
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
2004
as Mary Duvan
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
2004
as Juliette Martin
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

Under a False Name
2004
as Nicoletta
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

Baltic Storm
2003
as Julia Reuter
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
2003
as Dottoresa Natalia

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
2002
as Margaret Thatcher
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
2002
as Gale Sondergaard
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

Festival in Cannes
2001
as Alice Palmer
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
2000
as Christina Alibrandi
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
2000
as Agnes MacDonnell
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
2000
as Liz Cooper
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
1999
as Lily MacIntosh
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.

Ladies Room
1999
as Lucia
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
1999
as Aunt Gwen Kitson
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
1999
as Mrs. Ravenscroft
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
1998
as Victoria Byrd (Oxford)
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
1998
as Lady Macbeth
William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The Odyssey
1997
as Penelope
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
1997
as Juliana
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.

Emma
1996
as Mrs. Weston
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
1996
as Tsarina Alexandra
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
1996
as Mental Patient (uncredited)
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
1995
as Maria Cosway
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
1994
as Deborah Voysey
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
1994
as Laura Crocker-Harris
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
1992
as George
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
1992
as June Gudmundsdottir
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

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

Shattered
1991
as Judith Merrick
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
1991
as Isabel
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
1990
as Carolyn Polhemus
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
1988
as Maria
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
1988
as Angela
An Italian-American woman traveling to Sicily picks up a teenager who claims to be in trouble with some drug dealers.

White Mischief
1987
as Diana, Lady Broughton
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
1987
as Edna Bonnano
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
1987
as Jane Steiner
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
1986
as Nina Beckman
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
1985
as Julia Matthews
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
1985
as Terri
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
1984
as Marguerite Gautier
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
1984
as Anna-Luise Fischer
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
1984
as Diana, 'The Mouse'
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
1984
as Anna Chieri
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
1983
as Olivia Rivers
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
1983
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
1982
as Anna
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
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Across the years, a mother watches her gladiator son fight, while she remembers his childhood: the last lighthouse keeper prepares for his final trip ...