Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 25, 1975
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Credits
65 titles
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. Source: Article "Maya Sansa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
In Utero
Fotoreporter
The Iris Affair
Inspector Nico Casterman
Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema
Self
A Dangerous Friendship
Marie de Médicis
With the Grace of a God
Claudia
The Firebrands
Chiara
My Paper Dolls
Anna Bottacin
Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila
Anna Conti
Revoir Paris
Sara
The Peacock’s Paradise
Caterina
Irma Vep
Gregory's Wife
Azuro
Gina
My Night
Doctor
Security
Claudia Raffaelli Santini
You Came Back
Clara Fasani
Redemption
Sara
Amo la tempesta
The App
I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
Silvana
The Truth
Sisters in Arms
Mother Sun
Collateral
Berna Yalaz
The Royal Exchange
Elisabeth Farnese
La verità sta in cielo
Maria
Looking for Monica
Tutto può succedere
Sara Ferraro
Storie sospese
Giovanna
The Lithium Conspiracy
Valeria Petri
The show MAS go on
The Good Life
Elena
Under the Starry Sky
Ada
In Treatment
Irene
Cycling with Molière
Francesca
Dormant Beauty
Rossa
The Woman Dress
The Woman
The First Man
Catherine Cormery (1924)
See How They Dance
Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
Meeting with an Angel
Véra
Un altro mondo
Ingrid
The Black Sheep
Marinella
Two Sunny Days
Martina
The Man Who Will Come
Lena
Il prossimo tuo
Maddalena
La voce naturale - Giving Voice
Se stessa
David Copperfield
Agnes Wickfield
David Copperfield
Agnes Wickfield
Villa Amalia
Giulia
All Human Rights for All
Einstein
Mileva Marić
The Third Part of the World
Chiara