Margherita Buy

Margherita Buy

Birth : 1962-01-15, Rome, Italy

History

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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Margherita Buy

Movies

Romeo è Giulietta
Il sol dell'avvenire
Paola
The First Day of my Life
In the exact moment they’re hitting rock bottom, a man, two women and a boy meet a mysterious man capable of gifting them a week of time where they’ll discover how the world would be without them. Will they find the strength to start over and fall in love with life again?
Tell It Like a Woman
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, Japan, and the U.S. Each segment is an inspirational and empowering story about women, by women, for everyone.
Esterno Notte (part II)
Eleonora Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Esterno Notte
Eleonora Moro
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
7 Women and a Murder
Margherita
When the family patriarch is killed, seven women, each with ulterior motives, find themselves trapped together in a mansion to solve the mystery of his murder.
Noi siamo cinema
Herself
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Three Floors
Dora
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
The Great Silence
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 and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...
Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
Queen Anne of Austria
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.
Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione
Queen Anne of 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 mission: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom.
Just Believe
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, where he'll host pilgrims in exchange for a generous donation. He joins forces with an unscrupulous accountant and a failed novelist to come up with his new religion.
Piccoli crimini coniugali
Moglie di Elia
Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident.
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
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 conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."
La vita possibile
Anna
Questi giorni
Adria
Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.
Two Stepmoms
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 their ex-husband?
Two Stepmoms
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 their ex-husband?
Burning Love
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 gathers around the young activist’s house. His mother is beside herself with grief and the entire neighbourhood is paralysed. He’s on every TV channel and the authorities all express their solidarity with the family. Many can’t believe it’s true; they prefer to think it’s just one of his stunts. A genius in conveying his ideas, successful cartoonist, visionary fashion designer, cult author, human rights activist: but who is Leonardo deep down? With the help of leading experts and celebrities, the film traces his life, at last casting light on a key figure of our times
Me, Myself and Her
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.
Mia madre
Margherita
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
People Who Are Well
Carla
Carlo!
Herself
Mi rifaccio vivo
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 to come back to life for a week as Dennis, Ottone's trusted business partner.
A Five Star Life
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 indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.
Discovery at Dawn
Caterina Astengo
Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a woman discovers she can make phone calls to her past self.
Il rosso e il blu
Preside Giuliana
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
6 sull'autobus
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. Faces, eyes. Expectations. A few encounters. Incidents. Slips. Ambiguities. Thefts. Rows. Confiding exchanges. Confessions. Projects. Plans. Lies. Slaps. Even one hijacking. A well-defined route can become a journey. Each encounter can become a future opportunity or can lay a former wound to rest. Every stop may produce the person who will change your life trajectory. Or not, and the bus carries on. At the next turn, someone else will get on and a fragment of his life will for a moment touch yours.
A Magnificent Haunting
Lea Mami
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
Love is in the Air
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, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Self
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).
We Have a Pope
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 him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
Weddings and Other Disasters
Nanà
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...
Happy Family
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 getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Rossana
L'uomo nero
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 reawakens in Gabriele memories of his childhood, of his loving mother, his uncle, his friends... but also of his father's rage and bitterness over his failure in achieving his artistic ambitions: Ernesto was convinced he was destined to be a famous painter, and was willing to sacrifice everything for this belief, even his own dignity – and this made his son swear that he wouldn't turn out like him. Only now, many years later, through chance and circumstances, Gabriele begins to understand Ernesto and to see what sort of person his father really was.
Pinocchio
Maestrina
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
The White Space
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, she retreats into an emotional space where she is alone, until the day arrives when she must learn to live again for the sake of her vulnerable child.
The Ladies Get Their Say
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. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.
Days and Clouds
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 to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.
Saturn in Opposition
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. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.
Commediasexi
Dora
The Unknown Woman
Avvocatessa di Irena
Irena, a Ukrainian woman coming to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
The Caiman
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 prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
The Days of Abandonment
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.
The Manual of Love
Barbara
Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.
Maigret: L'ombra cinese
During a night of debauchery in a refined mansion a young student he preferred to go away nauseated while the old lady Mithilde continued to spy on the movements of the other guys. Late at night, she has to find the lifeless body of Raymond Couchet, owner of a renowned pharmaceutical laboratory, lying on his desk in his office. Someone killed him with a pistol and robbed her safe. Inspector Maigret is called to investigate a story that has many dark sides.
Maigret: La trappola
Louise Maigret
L'amore ritorna
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 life.
Il siero della vanità
Lucia Allasco
The vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton.
Caterina in the Big City
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 in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
Self
Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
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.
Incompreso
Elisa Quaratesi
Il più bel giorno della mia vita
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
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 wholesaler named Michele.
Controvento
Clara
The Shadow of the Giant
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 forlorn tower. When the captain's wife Adele tries to shake her melancholia by playing the piano, she finds -- much to her surprise -- that she's being accompanied by violin music coming from the prison cell.
Tutto l'amore che c'è
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 daughters of an engineer who has moved to run a factory, brings the turmoil amongst the young people of the town. Stories of love, betrayals, state money (stolen) and broken promises intertwine. All through the eyes of Carlo (alter ego of the director Sergio Rubini), the youngest.
Sweet Idleness
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 wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.
Not of this World
Suor Caterina
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
An Eyewitness Account
Franca Nava
Love, Money and Philosophy
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 plumber who takes him home and teaches him the tricks of the trade. When Lucia, a woman disappointed in both men and conventional jobs who has started to work as a prostitute, calls them to repair a sink, for Stefano it's love at first sight.
Follow Your Heart
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 begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.
Bits & Pieces
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
Looking for Paradise
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 married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.
Le fils préféré
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. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny...
Prestazione straordinaria
Clara Guerri
A white-collar worker finds himself in the crosshairs of his attractive female boss.
Condannato a nozze
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 night he splits into two different versions of himself, a soon-to-be-married one and a confirmed bachelor one.
Arriva la bufera
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 incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
Cominciò tutto per caso
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
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 meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.
Ask for the Moon
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 job and family to search for him together with Elena, his brother's girlfriend.
La settimana della sfinge
Gloria
Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.
The Station
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 enters the station to buy a ticket. Waiting for her train, the two talk and eventually grow close. However, the mood quickly changes when the woman's fiancée arrives and tries to prevent her from leaving with increasingly violent means.
Stray Days
Annalisa
Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.
It's Happening Tomorrow
Vera
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
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