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. Source: Article "Maya Sansa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• In Utero — Fotoreporter
• The Iris Affair — Inspector Nico Casterman
• A Dangerous Friendship — Marie de Médicis
• 2023My Paper Dolls — Anna Bottacin
• Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila — Anna Conti
• The Firebrands — Chiara
• 2023With the Grace of a God — Claudia
• 2022Azuro — Gina
• Irma Vep — Gregory's Wife
• 2022My Night — Doctor
• 2022Revoir Paris — Sara
• 2022The Peacock’s Paradise — Caterina
• 2021Security — Claudia Raffaelli Santini
• 2020Amo la tempesta — Marina
• Redemption — Sara
• 2020You Came Back — Clara Fasani
• 2019I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro — Silvana
• 2019Sisters in Arms — Mother Sun
• 2019The App
• 2019The Truth
• Collateral — Berna Yalaz
• 2017The Royal Exchange — Elisabeth Farnese
• 2016La verità sta in cielo — Maria
• 2016Looking for Monica
• 2015Storie sospese — Giovanna
• 2015The Lithium Conspiracy — Valeria Petri
• Tutto può succedere — Sara Ferraro
• 2014The Good Life — Elena
• 2014The show MAS go on
• 2014Under the Starry Sky — Ada
• 2013Cycling with Molière — Francesca
• In Treatment — Irene
• 2012Dormant Beauty — Rossa
• 2012The Woman Dress — The Woman
• 2011Meeting with an Angel — Véra
• 2011See How They Dance — Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
• 2011The First Man — Catherine Cormery (1924)
• 2010The Black Sheep — Marinella
• 2010Two Sunny Days — Martina
• 2010Un altro mondo — Ingrid
• David Copperfield — Agnes Wickfield
• 2009Il prossimo tuo — Maddalena
• 2009La voce naturale - Giving Voice — Se stessa
• 2009The Man Who Will Come — Lena
• 2009Villa Amalia — Giulia
• 2008All Human Rights for All
• Einstein — Mileva Marić
• 2008Female Agents — Maria Luzzato
• 2008The Third Part of the World — Chiara
• 2007Fuori dalle corde — Anna Lo Russo
• 2006The Listening — Francesca
• 2005Contronatura
• 2004An Italian Romance — Maria
• 2004Il vestito da sposa — Stella
• 2003Good Morning, Night — Chiara
• 2003The Best of Youth — Mirella Utano
• The Best of Youth — Mirella Utano
• 2002Gasoline — Stella
• 2002La vita degli altri — Silvia
• 2000A Thread of Passion
• 2000Lupo mannaro — Maria Grazia
• 2000Nella terra di nessuno — Katia
• 1999The Nanny — Annetta

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2024Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema — Self