Maya Sansa
Biography
Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress.
Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was soon picked by Marco Bellocchio to take part in his new film: La balia. Maya later worked with Bellocchio for a second time, starring in the film Goodmorning, Night. Sansa has also worked with Marco Tullio Giordana in the film The Best of Youth.
On 2 May 2004 The New York Times published an article which named her as the new image of Italian cinema.
On 14 June 2013, she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dormant Beauty.
She has a daughter, Talitha, with her partner Fabrice Scott with whom she lives in Paris.
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Movies 51
Revoir Paris
as Sara
2022
Female Agents
as Maria Luzzato
2008
The Truth
2019
The Best of Youth
as Mirella Utano
2003
Sisters in Arms
as Mother Sun
2019
The Royal Exchange
as Elisabeth Farnese
2017
Security
as Claudia Raffaelli Santini
2021
Dormant Beauty
as Rossa
2012
My Night
as Doctor
2022
Under the Starry Sky
as Ada
2014
The Man Who Will Come
as Lena
2009
Good Morning, Night
as Chiara
2003
My Paper Dolls
as Anna Bottacin
2023
The Listening
as Francesca
2006
Villa Amalia
as Giulia
2009
Nella terra di nessuno
as Katia
2000
The Lithium Conspiracy
as Valeria Petri
2015
Contronatura
2005
The App
2019
La verità sta in cielo
as Maria
2016
Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema
as Self
2024
With the Grace of a God
as Claudia
2023
The Peacock’s Paradise
as Caterina
2022
Azuro
as Gina
2022
Gasoline
as Stella
2002
Meeting with an Angel
as Véra
2011
You Came Back
as Clara Fasani
2020
Two Sunny Days
as Martina
2010
Cycling with Molière
as Francesca
2013
All Human Rights for All
2008
The Third Part of the World
as Chiara
2008
An Italian Romance
as Maria
2004
I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
as Silvana
2019
Il vestito da sposa
as Stella
2004
See How They Dance
as Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
2011
La voce naturale - Giving Voice
as Se stessa
2009
The First Man
as Catherine Cormery (1924)
2011
Lupo mannaro
as Maria Grazia
2000
A Thread of Passion
2000
The Nanny
as Annetta
1999
Un altro mondo
as Ingrid
2010
The show MAS go on
2014
La vita degli altri
as Silvia
2002
Fuori dalle corde
as Anna Lo Russo
2007
The Good Life
as Elena
2014
Il prossimo tuo
as Maddalena
2009
Storie sospese
as Giovanna
2015
Amo la tempesta
as Marina
2020
Looking for Monica
2016
The Black Sheep
as Marinella
2010
The Woman Dress
as The Woman
2012TV Shows 13
In Treatment
as Irene
2013
Irma Vep
as Gregory's Wife
2022
The Iris Affair
as Inspector Nico Casterman
2025
Collateral
as Berna Yalaz
2018
Tutto può succedere
as Sara Ferraro
2015
The Best of Youth
as Mirella Utano
2003
In Utero
as Fotoreporter
2026
The Firebrands
as Chiara
2023
A Dangerous Friendship
as Marie de Médicis
2024
Redemption
as Sara
2020
Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila
as Anna Conti
2023
Einstein
as Mileva Marić
2008
David Copperfield
as Agnes Wickfield
2009