Margherita Buy
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.819 |
| Birthday | 1962-01-15 |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Italy |
| Also Known As | 마르게리타 부이, 마거리타 부이, |
2006
The Unknown Woman
7.2/346
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...
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The Unknown Woman
2005
The Manual of Love
5.737/317
Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.
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The Manual of Love
2024
Ten Minutes
6.182/55
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...
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Ten Minutes
2022
Tell It Like a Woman
4.3/22
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...
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Tell It Like a Woman
2007
Saturn in Opposition
6.872/368
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...
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Saturn in Opposition
2001
His Secret Life
7.317/554
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...
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His Secret Life
2006
The Caiman
6.702/258
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...
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The Caiman
2021
7 Women and a Murder
5.5/357
When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.
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7 Women and a Murder
2002
The Best Day of My Life
6.565/22
The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.
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The Best Day of My Life
2007
Days and Clouds
6.8/67
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...
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Days and Clouds
2009
Pinocchio
6/97
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
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Pinocchio
2010
Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
5.531/161
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010
Happy Family
6.427/301
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...
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Happy Family
2011
We Have a Pope
6.801/542
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...
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We Have a Pope
2003
Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
6.4/116
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.
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Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
2016
Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
0/0
A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).
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Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2006
Commediasexi
4.2/96
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Commediasexi
2009
The Cézanne Affair
6.5/11
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...
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The Cézanne Affair
1999
Not of this World
6.2/16
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
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Not of this World
2010
Weddings and Other Disasters
5.2/65
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...
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Weddings and Other Disasters
2005
The Days of Abandonment
5.645/38
Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.
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The Days of Abandonment
1988
It's Happening Tomorrow
5.6/6
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, dams...
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It's Happening Tomorrow
1994
Le fils préféré
6.6/25
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....
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Le fils préféré
1996
Love, Money and Philosophy
5.4/4
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...
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Love, Money and Philosophy
1990
The Station
6.2/18
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...
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The Station
2023
A Brighter Tomorrow
7.072/299
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...
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A Brighter Tomorrow
1992
Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
6.628/227
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...
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Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
2009
The White Space
5.9/24
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,...
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The White Space
2004
Love Returns
5.9/12
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...
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Love Returns
2004
The Vanity Serum
5.6/16
A detective with PTSD investigates the disappearance of several junk TV celebrities who have all been guests at the same controversial talk show.
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The Vanity Serum
2000
Tutto l'amore che c'è
6.2/26
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...
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Tutto l'amore che c'è
2009
The Ladies Get Their Say
7.2/69
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....
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The Ladies Get Their Say
2012
Monicelli: La versione di Mario
5.5/3
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).
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Monicelli: La versione di Mario
1996
Bits & Pieces
4.9/14
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...
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Bits & Pieces
1996
Follow Your Heart
6.2/32
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...
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Follow Your Heart
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
6.48/245
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
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A Magnificent Haunting
1993
Arriva la bufera
5.8/13
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinera...
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Arriva la bufera
2024
Volare
5.3/27
One day, Annabì decides it’s enough. Her whole life has been affected by her fear of flying and so has her career. She is a successful actress but has...
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Volare
2012
Il rosso e il blu
6/86
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
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Il rosso e il blu
2013
Mi rifaccio vivo
5.1/57
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...
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Mi rifaccio vivo
1995
Looking for Paradise
6/2
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...
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Looking for Paradise
1991
Ask for the Moon
5.2/6
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...
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Ask for the Moon
1998
Incompreso
7.8/28
Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quarate...
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Incompreso
2013
A Five Star Life
5.8/132
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...
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A Five Star Life
1990
La settimana della sfinge
5.2/7
Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.
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La settimana della sfinge
2013
Discovery at Dawn
5.2/13
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...
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Discovery at Dawn
2004
L'ombra cinese
6/1
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.
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L'ombra cinese
2023
Amleto è mio fratello
0/0
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Amleto è mio fratello
2013
Carlo!
5.6/6
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Carlo!
2022
Esterno Notte (part I)
7.8/127
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
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Esterno Notte (part I)
2022
Esterno Notte (part II)
7.916/89
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
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Esterno Notte (part II)
2014
People Who Are Well
4.847/111
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...
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People Who Are Well
1994
Prestazione straordinaria
5.7/10
A white-collar worker finds himself in the crosshairs of his attractive female boss.
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Prestazione straordinaria
1989
Nulla ci può fermare
0/0
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Nulla ci può fermare
2024
Romeo è Giulietta
6.6/51
The great theater director Federico Landi Porrini is looking for his Romeo and Juliet for the opera that should definitively consecrate his prestige a...
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Romeo è Giulietta
1993
Condannato a nozze
4.7/5
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...
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Condannato a nozze
2004
La trappola di Maigret
8.5/3
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.
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La trappola di Maigret
2000
The Shadow of the Giant
0/0
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...
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The Shadow of the Giant
2024
Trifole
7/4
To prevent her grandfather, an ill Italian truffle hunter, from eviction, Dalia, a modern and lost young woman, journeys to hunt the biggest truffle e...
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Trifole
2015
Mia madre
6.641/354
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
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Mia madre
1993
Cominciò tutto per caso
6/1
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.
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Cominciò tutto per caso
2021
We Are Cinema
9.5/1
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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We Are Cinema
2012
6 sull'autobus
8/1
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...
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6 sull'autobus
2015
Me, Myself and Her
6/165
Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with...
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Me, Myself and Her
2016
Two Stepmoms
6/142
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...
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Two Stepmoms
2016
These Days
4.5/24
Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.
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These Days
1997
An Eyewitness Account
7.4/4
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An Eyewitness Account
2016
La vita possibile
6.16/50
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La vita possibile
2003
Caterina in the Big City
6.536/253
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...
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Caterina in the Big City
2011
30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
0/0
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30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
2016
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
6.852/236
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co...
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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2024
Una terapia di gruppo
5.5/6
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Una terapia di gruppo
2017
Piccoli crimini coniugali
5.5/46
Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident.
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Piccoli crimini coniugali
2012
Love Is in the Air
5.4/294
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school,...
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Love Is in the Air
2018
Just Believe
6.067/341
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...
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Just Believe
1988
Stray Days
0/0
Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.
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Stray Days
2018
Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione
5.953/386
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...
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Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione
1999
Sweet Idleness
7/2
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...
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Sweet Idleness
2015
Burning Love
5.7/21
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...
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Burning Love
2021
Three Floors
6.4/294
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
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Three Floors
2000
Controvento
5.5/1
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Controvento
2020
Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
5.8/157
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.
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Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2021
The Great Silence
7.235/49
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...
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The Great Silence
2023
The First Day of My Life
6.7/144
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...
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The First Day of My Life
2003
Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
0/0
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Margherita, ritratto confidenziale
2013
Io... donna
0/0
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...
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