---
name: "Alba Rohrwacher"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alba-rohrwacher"
fi1m_id: "alba-rohrwacher"
imdb_id: "nm2130040"
tmdb_id: 128748
wikidata_id: "Q433601"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 February 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-03T02:25:49.766023+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alba Rohrwacher

## Identity

Alba Rohrwacher

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alba-rohrwacher
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alba-rohrwacher
- **IMDb ID:** nm2130040
- **TMDB ID:** 128748
- **Wikidata ID:** Q433601
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Rohrwacher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2130040/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/128748

Actor. Born 27 February 1979 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 February 1979, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** Alba Caterina Rohrwacher, Alba C. Rohrwacher
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 72 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 73 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 5 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 2, Fantasy 1, History 1, Music 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $18m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Rohrwacher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2130040/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/128748

## Coming up

- *A Good Little Soldier* (2026-11-25), as Carla Moretti

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Lost Daughter*](https://film.one/film/the-lost-daughter.md) (84), [*Jay Kelly*](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md) (64), [*Maria*](https://film.one/film/maria.md) (57)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*I Am Love*](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Alba Rohrwacher

> Alba Rohrwacher is especially good at making care look like hard work. Her slight, nervy presence suits quiet supporting parts, though we find her less convincing when the characterisation broadens, as it does in *La Chimera*.

In *Maria* (2024), Alba Rohrwacher’s Bruna cooks meals nobody eats and tells truths nobody wants to hear. We were moved by those uneaten meals, because she makes the effort of caring count in a film that otherwise keeps its central figure at a distance. Alongside Pierfrancesco Favino’s patient Ferruccio, she gives Pablo Larraín’s film its warmth. Angelina Jolie’s Callas receives the grand treatment, with Edward Lachman lighting her like a painting. Rohrwacher makes the downstairs scenes matter without competing for that attention.

*I Am Love* (2010) helped bring her to a wider international audience after the early breakthrough of *My Brother Is an Only Child* (2007). As Elisabetta Recchi in Luca Guadagnino’s melodrama, she belongs to a film we recommend with reservations about its pace and overbearing music. Tilda Swinton’s sensitive performance remains its chief strength. Her work as Mina opposite Adam Driver in *Hungry Hearts* (2014) asks more of her physically. Her slight, nervy presence can also sustain close attention to one woman under pressure.

Alice Rohrwacher has repeatedly cast her in films about rural or marginal Italian life, including *The Wonders* (2014) and *Happy as Lazzaro* (2018). That continuing collaboration does not guarantee the right result. In *La Chimera* (2023), Alba plays Spartaco, the dealer buying the tomb raiders’ finds, and the business is too broad. The wealthy collectors are already easy to distrust; the film has little else to say about them. We recommend it warmly for its humour, sadness and freedom, but Spartaco belongs among its limitations.

The risk is that casting directors see the nerves and ask for nothing else. Repeated parts as anxious or repressed women can narrow what she is allowed to do. Bruna gives her something firmer to play: a woman willing to tell the truth as well as prepare the food. Her scenes with Favino cannot make us recommend *Maria* as a whole. For a stronger film around her, start with *I Am Love*, and allow for the music.

## Biography

Alba Rohrwacher is an Italian actress. She was born on 27 February 1979 in Florence and trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.

She is known for roles in *I Am Love* (2010), *The Wonders* (2014), *Hungry Hearts* (2014), *Happy as Lazzaro* (2018), *The Lost Daughter* (2021), *La Chimera* (2023) as Spartaco, *Maria* (2024) as Bruna and *Jay Kelly* (2025) as Alba. Her sister is director Alice Rohrwacher.

Rohrwacher won the David di Donatello for Best Actress for *Giovanna's Father* (2009) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 2014 Venice Film Festival for *Hungry Hearts*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Jay Kelly* (2025), Fi1m 64, as Alba — [page](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md)
- *Maria* (2024), Fi1m 57, as Bruna — [page](https://film.one/film/maria.md)
- *La Chimera* (2023), Fi1m 84, as Spartaco — [page](https://film.one/film/la-chimera.md)
- *The Lost Daughter* (2021), Fi1m 84, as Female Hiker — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-daughter.md)
- *I Am Love* (2010), Fi1m 81, as Elisabetta Recchi — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md)

## Complete filmography (80)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Good Little Soldier* (2026), as Carla Moretti
- *A Common Story* (2026), as Erika
- *Jay Kelly* (2025), as Alba — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md)
- *Three Goodbyes* (2025), as Marta
- *Maria* (2024), as Bruna — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/maria.md)
- *Out of Season* (2024), as Alice
- *Finally Dawn* (2024), as Alida Valli
- *I Told You So* (2024), as Caterina
- *In the Mirror* (2023), as Monica
- *La Chimera* (2023), as Spartaco — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/la-chimera.md)
- *The March on Rome* (2022), as Anna
- *The Peacock’s Paradise* (2022), as Adelina
- *Marcel!* (2022), as Mother
- *Le Pupille* (2022), as Mother Superior Fioralba
- *The Lost Daughter* (2021), as Female Hiker — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lost-daughter.md)
- *Three Floors* (2021), as Monica
- *Skies of Lebanon* (2021), as Alice Kamar
- *Last Words* (2020), as Anna
- *The Ties* (2020), as Vanda prima
- *Being My Mom* (2020), as Mother
- *If Only* (2020), as Benedetta
- *The Staggering Girl* (2019), as Vera
- *Angelo* (2019), as Countess
- *Hellhole* (2019), as Alba
- *My Brilliant Friend* (2018), series, as Older Elena (voice), Elena Greco
- *Lucia's Grace* (2018), as Lucia
- *Happy as Lazzaro* (2018), as Antonia
- *The Miracle* (2018), series, as Sandra Roversi
- *Daughter of Mine* (2018), as Angelica
- *The Place* (2017), as Chiara
- *Ismael's Ghosts* (2017), as Arielle / Faunia
- *Scribe* (2016), as Sara
- *L'ami* (2016), as Chiara
- *Perfect Strangers* (2016), as Bianca
- *Taj Mahal* (2015), as Giovanna
- *Blood of My Blood* (2015), as Maria Perletti
- *Long Live the Bride* (2015), as Sofia
- *De Djess* (2015), as Divina
- *Tale of Tales* (2015), as Mother Circus Performer
- *Sworn Virgin* (2015), as Hana / Mark
- *Hungry Hearts* (2015), as Mina
- *Part Deux* (2015), Actor
- *Crossing the Bardo* (2014), Actor
- *The Wonders* (2014), as Angelica
- *Free-go* (2013), Actor
- *A Street in Palermo* (2013), as Clara
- *Con il fiato sospeso* (2013), Actor
- *In Treatment* (2013), series, as Lavinia, figlia di Guido
- *Garibaldi's Lovers* (2012), as Diana
- *Dormant Beauty* (2012), as Maria
- *Bliss* (2012), as Irina
- *Tormenti - Film disegnato* (2011), as Eleonora "Lolli" Giancarelli (voice)
- *Missione di pace* (2011), as Maria Pettariello
- *Sorelle Mai* (2011), as Professoressa Vitaliani
- *In carne e ossa* (2010), as Viola
- *The Solitude of Prime Numbers* (2010), as Alice Della Rocca
- *Diarchy* (2010), as Jeune fille
- *Come Undone* (2010), as Anna
- *I Am Love* (2010), as Elisabetta Recchi — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md)
- *The Man Who Will Come* (2009), as Beniamina
- *The Ladies Get Their Say* (2009), as Giulia
- *Giovanna's Father* (2008), as Giovanna Casali
- *Good Morning Heartache* (2008), as Lucia
- *Quiet Chaos* (2008), as Annalisa
- *Non c'è più niente da fare* (2008), as Letizia
- *Nelle Tue Mani* (2007), as Carla
- *Days and Clouds* (2007), as Alice
- *Piano, Solo* (2007), as Marta
- *Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini* (2007), as Anna
- *Voce del verbo amore* (2007), as Eleonora
- *My Brother Is an Only Child* (2007), as Violetta Benassi
- *4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo* (2006), as Laura (segment "La donna del Mister")
- *Melissa P.* (2005), as Cielia
- *Kiss Me Lorena* (2005), as Liz Bitume
- *Fare bene Mikles* (2005), Actor
- *An Italian Romance* (2004), as Collega di Maria
- *Bristol*, as Simona
- *Kyushu Moon*, as Sarah
- *L'incident*, as Appolonia
- *Three Incestuous Sisters*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Alba Rohrwacher, 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-fbc7c08765ad.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher, 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026) — CaseyJNewell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Alba_Rohrwacher-09775.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-d8d5d4db9fdb.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Alba_Rohrwacher-64453.jpg/1280px-Alba_Rohrwacher-64453.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Alba Rohrwacher at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-8ce07e31456d.jpg) Actress Alba Rohrwacher at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Alba_Rohrwacher-64456.jpg/1280px-Alba_Rohrwacher-64456.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actress Alba Rohrwacher at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-992202c15770.jpg) Actress Alba Rohrwacher at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Alba_Rohrwacher-64498.jpg/1280px-Alba_Rohrwacher-64498.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-2c1181f0c0af.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Image via TMDB
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-45af8f619e49.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Image via TMDB
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-2a3fdf0a883b.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Image via TMDB
- ![Alba Rohrwacher at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-242b2db4a025.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (2026) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Alba_Rohrwacher-8079.jpg/1280px-Alba_Rohrwacher-8079.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-559921910b97.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Image via TMDB
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-f13de5ff6f74.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Image via TMDB
- ![Alba Rohrwacher](https://film.one/media/person/7605/gallery-e504c5685693.jpg) Alba Rohrwacher — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won, 2 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2019: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Happy as Lazzaro*
- European Film Award for Best Actress 2018: European Film Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Happy as Lazzaro*
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress 2014: Volpi Cup for Best Actress (won), for *Hungry Hearts*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress 2012: Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress (won), for *The Solitude of Prime Numbers*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress 2011: Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress (won), for *The Solitude of Prime Numbers*
- David di Donatello for Best Actress 2009: David di Donatello for Best Actress (won), for *Giovanna's Father*
- David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress 2009: David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress (won), for *Days and Clouds*
- Flaiano Prize 2009: Flaiano Prize (won), for *Riprendimi*
- David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress 2008: David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress (won), for *Days and Clouds*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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