Maya Sansa

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Sep 25, 1975 (49 years old)

Maya Sansa

Known For

A Dangerous Friendship
0h 52m
TV Show 2024

A Dangerous Friendship

A lively duchess befriends the shy queen of France. The duchess aims to reunite the queen with the aloof king by injecting merriment into the staid royal atmosphere, causing controversy at court.

With the Grace of a God
1h 14m
Movie 2023

With the Grace of a God

Back in Genoa for the first time in twenty-five years, to attend the funeral of his best friend from when he was growing up, Luca reunites with the old gang of yore. All of them are sure that the late lamented had brought it on himself, with his dissipated lifestyle. Not Luca: he wants to know, investigate, understand. He searches his memory, in a city as changed as he is, as characters and situations reemerge ghost-like from a buried past, along with Luca’s own true nature, which he thought he had definitively tamed.

The Firebrands
0h 52m
TV Show 2023

The Firebrands

Lulu, Chiara and Joe are on the verge of adulthood and dream of a world of freedom and equality. With the hippie wave everywhere, they see how their conservative village is lost among drugs, seeing the damage of excess and addiction.

The Firebrands
0h 52m
TV Show 2023

The Firebrands

Lulu, Chiara and Joe are on the verge of adulthood and dream of a world of freedom and equality. With the hippie wave everywhere, they see how their conservative village is lost among drugs, seeing the damage of excess and addiction.

Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila
TV Show 2023

Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila

Commissioner Laura Moretti investigates the disappearance of a young girl but the investigation reveals a reality in which everyone has secrets to protect. Original location, a not particularly attractive, modern, cold, flat Taranto

Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila
TV Show 2023

Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila

Commissioner Laura Moretti investigates the disappearance of a young girl but the investigation reveals a reality in which everyone has secrets to protect. Original location, a not particularly attractive, modern, cold, flat Taranto

Azuro
1h 44m
Movie 2022

Azuro

It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...

My Night
1h 27m
Movie 2022

My Night

Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.

Security
1h 58m
Movie 2021

Security

After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.

You Came Back
1h 38m
Movie 2020

You Came Back

Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived until the tragic accident, bursts into Marco’s and his ex-wife’s lives. The mysterious woman claims she keeps feeling a strange presence and hearing the voice of a child that is tormenting her and her son. Marco therefore finds himself torn between the ties of the past and an unwritten future.

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.