Maya Sansa
Known for ActingBorn 1975-09-25Rome, Italy
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.
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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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Known for
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