Margherita Buy
Gender: Female
Born: 15th January 1962 (currently 50 years old)
Nationality: Italy
Movies: Caterina in the Big City, The Caiman, The Unknown Woman, Le Fate Ignoranti, Manuale d'amore, The Best Day of My Life, Not of this World, Saturno contro, Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide, Days and Clouds, It's Happening Tomorrow, The White Space, Bits and Pieces, The Station, An Eyewitness Account, It All Started by Chance, La Settimana Della Sfinge, I giorni dell'abbandono, Happy Family, We Have a Pope, The Cézanne Affair
Margherita Buy is an Italian actress born in Rome on 15 January 1962.
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 Domani accadrà (1988) and La settimana della sfinge (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.
Afterwards, she played in Sergio Rubini's La Stazione for which she won her first David di Donatello Prize and the Silver Ribbon as best leading actress, in 1990. After La Stazione, she became a premier star featuring in Italian box office hits like Carlo Verdone's Maledetto il giorno che ti ho incontrato (1992). She teamed up again with director Daniele Luchetti for Arriva la bufera (1992) and worked with Mario Monicelli in Facciamo paradiso (1995) and Pozzessere (Testimone a rischio).
In 1994 she was directed by her husband, Sergio Rubini, in the movie Prestazione straordinaria. She also formed an association with Italian director Giuseppe Piccioni, who directed her in four films: the most important being Cuori
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