Biography
Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress. Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was soon picked by Marco Bellocchio to take part in his new film: La balia. Maya later worked with Bellocchio for a second time, starring in the film Goodm...
Known For
Complete Filmography
With the Grace of a God
2023
Back in Genoa for the first time in twenty-five years, to attend the funeral of his best friend from when he was growing up, Luca reunites with the ol...
My Paper Dolls
2023
as Anna Bottacin
End of the 70s in the Treviso area. Two decisive moments in the lives of three teenagers of the Bottacin family: Primo, Anna and Tiberio. The passage...
Revoir Paris
2022
as Sara
Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to m...
The Peacock’s Paradise
2022
as Caterina
On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of...
Azuro
2022
as Gina
It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little v...
My Night
2022
as Doctor
Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve...
Security
2021
as Claudia Raffaelli Santini
After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.
You Came Back
2020
as Clara Fasani
Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first ...
Amo la tempesta
2020
A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kid...
The App
2019
Loving girlfriend, family fortune, breakout movie role: he's got it all. Until an app awakens a powerful new yearning. While in Rome to shoot his firs...
I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
2019
as Silvana
We are in the mid-60s, when a very young Mariele Ventre gave birth to the very first formation of the Piccolo Coro, originally composed of only eight ...
The Truth
2019
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir return...
Sisters in Arms
2019
as Mother Sun
Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in diff...
The Royal Exchange
2017
as Elisabeth Farnese
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate...
La verità sta in cielo
2016
as Maria
In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.
Looking for Monica
2016
Storie sospese
2015
as Giovanna
The Lithium Conspiracy
2015
as Valeria Petri
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the...
The show MAS go on
2014
The Good Life
2014
as Elena
Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ago. Bu...
Under the Starry Sky
2014
as Ada
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continent...
Cycling with Molière
2013
as Francesca
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atl...
Dormant Beauty
2012
as Rossa
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a ...
The Woman Dress
2012
as The Woman
In this dark tale of an esoteric ritual, a woman enters a shadowy laboratory where three witches attend a bubbling cauldron, surrounded by hanging ske...
The First Man
2011
as Catherine Cormery (1924)
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childh...
See How They Dance
2011
as Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the l...
Meeting with an Angel
2011
as Véra
Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him that she has lost her job. When he learns this, he...
Un altro mondo
2010
as Ingrid
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...
The Black Sheep
2010
as Marinella
Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, ...
Two Sunny Days
2010
as Martina
Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going throu...
The Man Who Will Come
2009
as Lena
A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impendi...
Il prossimo tuo
2009
as Maddalena
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous ...
La voce naturale - Giving Voice
2009
as Se stessa
David Copperfield
2009
as Agnes Wickfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...
Villa Amalia
2009
as Giulia
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to...
All Human Rights for All
2008
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 ar...
Einstein
2008
as Mileva Marić
The relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.
The Third Part of the World
2008
as Chiara
Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken w...
Female Agents
2008
as Maria Luzzato
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the c...
Fuori dalle corde
2007
as Anna Lo Russo
Michele "Mike" Lo Russo is a young Italian boxer who has moved to Hamburg to start a professional boxing career. When his German manager refuses to re...
The Listening
2006
as Francesca
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a cland...
An Italian Romance
2004
as Maria
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Good Morning, Night
2003
as Chiara
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from ...
The Best of Youth
2003
as Mirella Utano
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the...
Il vestito da sposa
2003
as Stella
A young woman is raped the day she goes to the dressmaker's to try on her wedding dress.
Gasoline
2002
as Stella
Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until ...
La vita degli altri
2002
as Silvia
Luisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of th...
Lupo mannaro
2000
as Maria Grazia
Police chief Romeo becomes convinced that affluent professional Velasco is a serial killer known for mauling his victims with his teeth, but nobody be...
Nella terra di nessuno
2000
as Katia
A Thread of Passion
2000
A short film.
The Nanny
1999
as Annetta
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his in...