Maya Sansa
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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Acting
Movie
The Best of Youth
as Mirella Utano
2003
Movie
Revoir Paris
as Sara
2022
Movie
Female Agents
as Maria Luzzato
2008
Movie
The Truth
2019
Movie
Cycling with Molière
as Francesca
2013
TV
Collateral
as Berna Yalaz
2018
Movie
Good Morning, Night
as Chiara
2003
Movie
Security
as Claudia Raffaelli Santini
2021
Movie
The Royal Exchange
as Elisabeth Farnese
2017
Movie
Sisters in Arms
as Mother Sun
2019
TV
Irma Vep
as Gregory's Wife
2022
Movie
The App
2019
Movie
The Man Who Will Come
as Lena
2009
Movie
Dormant Beauty
as Rossa
2012
Movie
La verità sta in cielo
as Maria
2016
Movie
You Came Back
as Clara Fasani
2020
Movie
The First Man
as Catherine Cormery (1924)
2011
Movie
Un altro mondo
as Ingrid
2010
Movie
The Listening
as Francesca
2006
Movie
Villa Amalia
as Giulia
2009
TV
The Iris Affair
as Inspector Nico Casterman
2025
Movie
The Black Sheep
as Marinella
2010
Movie
I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
as Silvana
2019
TV
The Best of Youth
as Mirella Utano
2003