Margherita Buy

About

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.

Known for

RIPLEYSeries • 2024Exterior NightSeries • 2022A Brighter TomorrowMovie • 2023We Have a PopeMovie • 20117 Women and a MurderMovie • 2021Esterno Notte - Seconda ParteMovie • 2022The Unknown WomanMovie • 2006Romeo Is JulietMovie • 2024The Days of AbandonmentMovie • 2005Mia MadreMovie • 2015Two StepmomsMovie • 2016Tell It Like a WomanMovie • 2022Three FloorsMovie • 2021Esterno Notte - Prima ParteMovie • 2022IncompresoMovie • 1998Days and CloudsMovie • 2007His Secret LifeMovie • 2001The CaimanMovie • 2006The First Day of My LifeMovie • 2023A Magnificent HauntingMovie • 2012The Manual of LoveMovie • 2005Saturn in OppositionMovie • 2007The King's MusketeersMovie • 2018Caterina in the Big CityMovie • 2003