
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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The Best of Youth
2003 · as Mirella Utano

Female Agents
2008 · as Maria Luzzato

The Listening
2006 · as Francesca

Sisters in Arms
2019 · as Mother Sun

My Night
2022 · as Doctor

You Came Back
2020 · as Clara Fasani

Dormant Beauty
2012 · as Rossa

The Royal Exchange
2017 · as Elisabeth Farnese

David Copperfield
2009 · as Agnes Wickfield

The Truth
2019

Under the Starry Sky
2014 · as Ada

Security
2021 · as Claudia Raffaelli Santini

The App
2019

Azuro
2022 · as Gina

Revoir Paris
2022 · as Sara

Contronatura
2005

Cycling with Molière
2013 · as Francesca

An Italian Romance
2004 · as Maria