---
name: "Maria Rita Barbera"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-rita-barbera"
fi1m_id: "maria-rita-barbera"
imdb_id: "nm0053489"
tmdb_id: 1277267
wikidata_id: "Q95751939"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T02:28:07.820026+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."
---

# Maria Rita Barbera

## Identity

Maria Rita Barbera

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-rita-barbera
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-rita-barbera
- **IMDb ID:** nm0053489
- **TMDB ID:** 1277267
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95751939
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95751939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1277267

Costume designer. Born in Messina, Sicily, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1986–1993
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 1990s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95751939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1277267

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Caro diario*](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Maria Rita Barbera is an Italian costume designer. She was born in Messina, Sicily, and studied at the local Istituto d'arte before attending the Accademia di belle arti in Rome under Toti Scialoja.

She began working as an assistant costumier in the early 1980s and received her first sole credit as costume designer on *Notte italiana* (1987). Barbera has designed costumes for more than forty productions, including films directed by Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti and Marco Tullio Giordana. Her credits include *Caro diario* (1993), *Palombella rossa* (1989), *My Brother Is an Only Child* (2007), *The Ruthless* (2019), *Strangeness* (2022) and *Primavera* (2025).

She has won two Ciak d'oro awards, a Nastro d'argento and two David di Donatello awards for best costumes. Barbera is married to producer Angelo Barbagallo and is the mother of director Filippo Barbagallo.

*Sources: it.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, messina.gazzettadelsud.it.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Caro diario* (1993), Fi1m 77, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md)
- *Something Wild* (1986), Fi1m 82, Wardrobe Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)

## Complete filmography (43)

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

- *Primavera* (2025), Costume Design
- *The Illusion* (2025), Costume Design
- *Strangeness* (2022), Costume Design
- *The Hidden Child* (2021), Costume Design
- *Mi chiamo Altan e faccio vignette* (2019), Costume Designer
- *The Ruthless* (2019), Costume Design
- *Euphoria* (2018), Costume Design
- *Mom + Mom* (2018), Producer, Costume Designer
- *Metti una notte* (2018), Costume Design
- *Little Tito and the Aliens* (2018), Costume Design
- *Io sono Tempesta* (2018), Costume Design
- *The Confessions* (2016), Costume Design
- *I Killed Napoleon* (2015), Costume Designer
- *L'amore non perdona* (2015), Costume Design
- *La sedia della felicità* (2014), Costume Design
- *Non è mai troppo tardi* (2014), Costume Design
- *Those Happy Years* (2013), Costume Design
- *The Ideal City* (2013), Costume Design
- *Our Life* (2010), Costume Design
- *Giulia Doesn't Date at Night* (2009), Costume Design
- *Wild Blood* (2008), Costume Design
- *My Brother Is an Only Child* (2007), Costume Design
- *Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide* (2005), Costume Design
- *The Life I Want* (2004), Costume Design
- *Te lo leggo negli occhi* (2004), Costume Design
- *Ginger and Cinnamon* (2003), Costume Design
- *Light of My Eyes* (2001), Costume Design
- *La Vita Che Verrà* (1999), series, Costume Designer
- *I piccoli maestri* (1998), Costume Design
- *La scuola* (1995), Costume Design
- *Caro diario* (1993), Costume Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md)
- *Here Comes the Storm* (1993), Costume Design
- *Un'altra vita* (1992), Costume Design
- *The Yes Man* (1991), Costume Design
- *Palombella rossa* (1989), Costume Design
- *Il prete bello* (1989), Costume Design
- *Disamistade* (1988), Costume Design
- *Notte italiana* (1987), Costume Design
- *Something Wild* (1986), Wardrobe Supervisor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)
- *The Mass Is Ended* (1985), Assistant Costume Designer
- *The Future Is Woman* (1984), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Henry IV* (1984), Assistant Costume Designer
- *The Story of Piera* (1983), Assistant Costume Designer

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