Margherita Buy

Born: 1962-01-15

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.


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Love Is in the Air

as Luigia
Released: 2012-02-10

Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom....

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His Secret Life

as Antonia
Released: 2001-03-16

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he...

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The Manual of Love

as Barbara
Released: 2005-03-18

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

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7 Women and a Murder

as Margherita
Released: 2021-12-25

When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his...

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The Unknown Woman

as Avvocatessa di Irena
Released: 2006-10-09

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she...

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Mia madre

as Margherita
Released: 2015-04-16

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable...

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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

as Dir. Silvia Rufini
Released: 2016-11-23

More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny...

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We Have a Pope

as Moglie di Brezzi
Released: 2011-04-15

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have...

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Pinocchio

as Maestrina
Released: 2009-11-01

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

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A Brighter Tomorrow

as Paola
Released: 2023-04-20

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in...

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Happy Family

as Margherita
Released: 2010-03-26

A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown...

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Caterina in the Big City

as Agata Iacovoni
Released: 2003-10-24

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome,...

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Me, Myself and Her

as Federica Salvini
Released: 2015-10-01

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship,...

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Three Floors

as Dora
Released: 2021-09-23

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

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A Five Star Life

as Irene
Released: 2013-04-24

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an...

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Ten Minutes

as uncredited
Released: 2024-01-25

Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new...

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Saturn in Opposition

as Angelica
Released: 2007-02-23

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in...

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Two Stepmoms

as Lucia
Released: 2016-04-14

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out...

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Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione

as Regina Anna d'Austria
Released: 2018-12-27

In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an...

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Days and Clouds

as Elsa
Released: 2007-10-26

Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after...

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The First Day of My Life

as Arianna
Released: 2023-01-26

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who...

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A Magnificent Haunting

as Lea Mami
Released: 2012-03-16

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly...

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The Ladies Get Their Say

as Gabriella
Released: 2009-03-06

Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and...

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Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

as Camilla
Released: 1992-01-31

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline...

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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso

as Rossana
Released: 2010-02-26

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

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The Caiman

as Paola Bonomo
Released: 2006-03-24

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a...

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Just Believe

as Adriana Alberti
Released: 2018-03-29

The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his...

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Ma che colpa abbiamo noi

as Flavia
Released: 2003-01-10

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when...

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Esterno Notte (part I)

as Eleonora Moro
Released: 2022-05-18

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades...

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Commediasexi

as Dora
Released: 2006-12-14

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Weddings and Other Disasters

as Nanà
Released: 2010-04-23

Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic...

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Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti

as Queen Anne of Austria
Released: 2020-12-25

Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

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Bits & Pieces

as uncredited
Released: 1996-02-02

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies,...

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Tell It Like a Woman

as Diana
Released: 2022-10-07

Tell It Like A Woman comprises of seven segments that are directed by female directors from...

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Piccoli crimini coniugali

as Moglie di Elia
Released: 2017-04-06

Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident.

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The Days of Abandonment

as Olga
Released: 2005-09-16

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of...

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Romeo è Giulietta

as uncredited
Released: 2024-02-14

The great theater director Federico Landi Porrini is looking for his Romeo and Juliet for the...

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People Who Are Well

as Carla
Released: 2014-01-30

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish...

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Il rosso e il blu

as Preside Giuliana
Released: 2012-09-21

The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

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Esterno Notte (part II)

as Eleonora Moro
Released: 2022-06-09

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades...

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Tutto l'amore che c'è

as Marisa
Released: 2000-03-24

The story takes place in an unspecified town in Apulia. We are in the '70s. The arrival of three...

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Volare

as Annabì
Released: 2024-02-22

One day, Annabì decides it’s enough. Her whole life has been affected by her fear of flying and...

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Condannato a nozze

as Sandra
Released: 1993-09-24

A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to...

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The Great Silence

as uncredited
Released: 2021-09-16

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale...

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We Are Cinema

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-12-16

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

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The Station

as Flavia
Released: 1990-09-27

A good-natured, albeit a bit pedantic stationmaster works at a railway station in the middle of...

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Arriva la bufera

as Eugenia Fontana
Released: 1993-03-25

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where...

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Mi rifaccio vivo

as Virginia Di Valerio
Released: 2013-05-08

After spending most of his life being defeated by his rival Ottone, meek Biagio tries to commit...

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Burning Love

as Madre Leonardo Film
Released: 2015-10-01

July 2006. Leonardo Zuliani has vanished. The news from Trastevere in Rome turns into a real...

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Love, Money and Philosophy

as Lucia
Released: 1996-03-28

Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his...

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Una terapia di gruppo

as uncredited
Released: 2024-11-21

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Follow Your Heart

as Olga da giovane
Released: 1996-02-09

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this...

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La vita possibile

as Anna
Released: 2016-09-22

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Le fils préféré

as Anna Maria
Released: 1994-12-21

Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled...

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The Best Day of My Life

as Sara Mazzoni
Released: 2002-04-12

The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to...

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Discovery at Dawn

as Caterina Astengo
Released: 2013-01-09

Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by...

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The White Space

as Maria
Released: 2009-09-08

An unexpected pregnancy and premature birth become a burden that Maria is unprepared for....

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L'ombra cinese

as Louise Maigret
Released: 2004-11-16

Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment...

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These Days

as Adria
Released: 2016-09-15

Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful...

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The Vanity Serum

as Lucia Allasco
Released: 2004-04-15

A detective with PTSD investigates the disappearance of several junk TV celebrities who have all...

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It's Happening Tomorrow

as Vera
Released: 1988-05-18

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their...

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Not of this World

as Sister Caterina
Released: 1999-03-26

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

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Love Returns

as Silvia
Released: 2004-04-19

Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets...

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La settimana della sfinge

as Gloria
Released: 1990-10-12

Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.

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The Cézanne Affair

as Anna
Released: 2009-12-03

Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former...

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Prestazione straordinaria

as Clara Guerri
Released: 1994-11-04

A white-collar worker finds himself in the crosshairs of his attractive female boss.

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An Eyewitness Account

as Franca Nava
Released: 1997-02-07

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Looking for Paradise

as Claudia Bertelli
Released: 1995-12-22

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated...

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La trappola di Maigret

as Louise Maigret
Released: 2004-11-15

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in...

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Monicelli: La versione di Mario

as Self
Released: 2012-01-30

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

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Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'

as Self
Released: 2016-11-15

A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).

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Trifole

as Marta
Released: 2024-10-17

To prevent her grandfather, an ill Italian truffle hunter, from eviction, Dalia, a modern and...

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Stray Days

as Annalisa
Released: 1988-10-01

Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.

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Ask for the Moon

as Elena Bacchelli
Released: 1991-10-04

No-nonsense workaholic Marco runs the family business along with his older brother. When the...

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Carlo!

as Herself
Released: 2013-06-03

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6 sull'autobus

as uncredited
Released: 2012-09-02

An old bus drives through the streets of Rome. It's a long day. The bus fills up with people and...

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Nulla ci può fermare

as Francesca
Released: 1989-10-01

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Amleto è mio fratello

as uncredited
Released: 2023-08-31

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Sweet Idleness

as Countess Gabriella Nencini
Released: 1999-03-31

This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still...

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Cominciò tutto per caso

as Stefania
Released: 1993-03-11

A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl....

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The Shadow of the Giant

as Adele
Released: 2000-08-06

Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner....

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Controvento

as Clara
Released: 2000-11-03

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Io... donna

as Clara
Released: 2013-09-06

In a particular moment of his life, the journalist Clara (Margherita Buy) thinks to her love...

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RIPLEY

as Sig. Silvana Buffi
First aired: 2024-04-04

A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy...

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Sanremo Music Festival

as Self - Special Guest
First aired: 1951-01-29

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in...

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Belve

as uncredited
First aired: 2018-03-14

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Exterior Night

as Eleonora Moro
First aired: 2022-11-14

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades...

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Made in Italy

as Rita Pasini
First aired: 2019-09-04

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In Treatment

as Rita
First aired: 2013-04-01

In Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.

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Pinocchio

as La maestra
First aired: 2009-11-01

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Amiche mie

as Anna
First aired: 2008-01-01

Amiche mie is a 2008 Italian television series, originally broadcast on Canale 5. The series...

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