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 l...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Una terapia di gruppo
2024

Trifole
2024
as Marta
In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Ar...

Flying
2024
as Annabì
Annabì has a fear of flying, which holds back her life and acting career. When her daughter decides to study abroad, Annabì sets out to conquer her fe...

Flying
2024
Director, Writer
Annabì has a fear of flying, which holds back her life and acting career. When her daughter decides to study abroad, Annabì sets out to conquer her fe...

Romeo Is Juliet
2024
as Clara
After her audition as Juliet fails to impress, a young actress determined to act in the latest production of Shakespeare's play crossdresses and is un...

Ten Minutes
2024
as Giovanna Brabanti
Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new can change the course of a life. This is what Bianca w...

Amleto è mio fratello
2023

A Brighter Tomorrow
2023
as Paola
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...

The First Day of My Life
2023
as Arianna
In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without t...

Tell It Like a Woman
2022
as Diana
Tell It Like A Woman comprises of seven segments that are directed by female directors from different parts of the world and shot in Italy, India, Jap...

Esterno Notte (part II)
2022
as Eleonora Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Esterno Notte (part I)
2022
as Eleonora Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

7 Women and a Murder
2021
as Margherita
When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Three Floors
2021
as Dora
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

The Great Silence
2021
Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano an...

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020
as Queen Anne of Austria
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

The King's Musketeers
2018
as Regina Anna d'Austria
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last jo...

Just Believe
2018
as Adriana Alberti
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, whe...

Piccoli crimini coniugali
2017
as Moglie di Elia
Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident.

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
as Dir. Silvia Rufini
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co...

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
as Self
A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).

La vita possibile
2016
as Anna
Anna and her son Valerio run away from a husband and a father who has destroyed the love of their family with beatings and anger. They seek refuge in ...

These Days
2016
as Adria
Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.

Two Stepmoms
2016
as Lucia
What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of thei...

Two Stepmoms
2016
Story
What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of thei...

Me, Myself and Her
2015
as Federica Salvini
Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with...

Burning Love
2015
as Madre Leonardo Film
July 2006. Leonardo Zuliani has vanished. The news from Trastevere in Rome turns into a real national emergency, while a huge throng of followers gath...

Mia madre
2015
as Margherita
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Well-Off People
2014
as Carla
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a st...

Io... donna
2013
as Clara
In a particular moment of his life, the journalist Clara (Margherita Buy) thinks to her love life, always put after the work life. And so, in her hous...

Carlo!
2013
as Herself

Mi rifaccio vivo
2013
as Virginia Di Valerio
After spending most of his life being defeated by his rival Ottone, meek Biagio tries to commit suicide – but in the hereafter he's offered a chance t...

A Five Star Life
2013
as Irene
Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she ind...

Discovery at Dawn
2013
as Caterina Astengo
Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to commun...

Il rosso e il blu
2012
as Preside Giuliana
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

6 sull'autobus
2012
An old bus drives through the streets of Rome. It's a long day. The bus fills up with people and stories. Then empties out. People get on. And get off...

A Magnificent Haunting
2012
as Lea Mami
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Love Is in the Air
2012
as Luigia
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school,...

Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
as Self
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
2011

We Have a Pope
2011
as Moglie di Brezzi
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...

Weddings and Other Disasters
2010
as Nanà
A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.

Happy Family
2010
as Margherita
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re g...

Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010
as Rossana
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

The Cézanne Affair
2009
as Anna
Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaster in a small town not far from Bari. The old man r...

Pinocchio
2009
as Maestrina
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

The White Space
2009
as Maria
An unexpected pregnancy and premature birth become a burden that Maria is unprepared for. Lacking control over events for the first time in her life, ...

The Ladies Get Their Say
2009
as Gabriella
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room....

Days and Clouds
2007
as Elsa
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced t...

Saturn in Opposition
2007
as Angelica
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. L...

Commediasexi
2006
as Dora
Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actre...

The Unknown Woman
2006
as Avvocatessa di Irena
Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little gir...

The Caiman
2006
as Paola Bonomo
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...

The Days of Abandonment
2005
as Olga
Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

Manual of Love
2005
as Barbara
Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

L'ombra cinese
2004
as Louise Maigret
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

La trappola di Maigret
2004
as Louise Maigret
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

Love Returns
2004
as Silvia
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his ...

The Vanity Serum
2004
as Lucia Allasco
A detective with PTSD investigates the disappearance of several junk TV celebrities who have all been guests at the same controversial talk show.

Caterina in the Big City
2003
as Agata Iacovoni
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself...
Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
2003
as Self

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
2003
as Flavia
Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.

The Best Day of My Life
2002
as Sara Mazzoni
The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.

His Secret Life
2001
as Antonia
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholes...

Against the wind
2000
as Clara

The Shadow of the Giant
2000
as Adele
Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a ...

Tutto l'amore che c'è
2000
as Marisa
The story takes place in an unspecified town in Apulia. We are in the '70s. The arrival of three beautiful and uninhibited girls from the North, the d...

Sweet Idleness
1999
as Countess Gabriella Nencini
This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wa...

Not of this World
1999
as Sister Caterina
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
Incompreso
1998
as Elisa Quaratesi
Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quarate...

An Eyewitness Account
1997
as Franca Nava

Love, Money and Philosophy
1996
as Lucia
Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend leaves him. He is saved by Giulio, a wisecracking pl...

Follow Your Heart
1996
as Olga da giovane
The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begin...

Bits & Pieces
1996
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...

Looking for Paradise
1995
as Claudia Bertelli
The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and ...

Le fils préféré
1994
as Anna Maria
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies....

Prestazione straordinaria
1994
as Clara Guerri
A white-collar worker finds himself in the crosshairs of his attractive female boss.

Condannato a nozze
1993
as Sandra
A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one...

Arriva la bufera
1993
as Eugenia Fontana
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinera...

Cominciò tutto per caso
1993
as Stefania
A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl. The lives of four people get closer in nowadays Rome.

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
1992
as Camilla
Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he...

Ask for the Moon
1991
as Elena Bacchelli
No-nonsense workaholic Marco runs the family business along with his older brother. When the latter suddenly disappears, Marco has to put aside his jo...

La settimana della sfinge
1990
as Gloria
Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.

The Station
1990
as Flavia
A good-natured, albeit a bit pedantic stationmaster works at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. One night, a beautiful high-society woman ent...

Nulla ci può fermare
1989
as Francesca

Stray Days
1988
as Annalisa
Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.

It's Happening Tomorrow
1988
as Vera
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, dams...
Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli
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