---
name: "Maya Sansa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maya-sansa"
fi1m_id: "maya-sansa"
imdb_id: "nm0763022"
tmdb_id: 54230
wikidata_id: "Q2249919"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 September 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T18:13:23.675131+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."
---

# Maya Sansa

## Identity

Maya Sansa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maya-sansa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maya-sansa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0763022
- **TMDB ID:** 54230
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2249919
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Sansa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2249919, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763022/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54230

Actor. Born 25 September 1975 in Rome, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 September 1975, Rome, Italy
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Sansa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2249919, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763022/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54230

## Biography

Maya Sansa is an Italian actress. She was born on 25 September 1975 in Rome.

She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 1999. Her film debut came that year in Marco Bellocchio’s *La balia*, for which she received Italian Golden Globe and Ciak d’Oro awards. She later appeared in Bellocchio’s *Good Morning, Night* (2003) and Marco Tullio Giordana’s *The Best of Youth* (2003).

In 2013 Sansa won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in *Dormant Beauty*. Her other screen credits include *Female Agents* (2008), *Cycling with Molière* (2013) and *Revoir Paris* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Irma Vep* (2022), Fi1m 74, as Gregory's Wife — [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md)
- *The Best of Youth* (2003), Fi1m 86, as Mirella Utano — [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-of-youth.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

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

- *In Utero* (2026), series, as Fotoreporter
- *The Iris Affair* (2025), series, as Inspector Nico Casterman
- *A Dangerous Friendship* (2024), series, as Marie de Médicis
- *With the Grace of a God* (2023), as Claudia
- *The Firebrands* (2023), series, as Chiara
- *My Paper Dolls* (2023), as Anna Bottacin
- *Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila* (2023), series, as Anna Conti
- *Revoir Paris* (2022), as Sara
- *The Peacock’s Paradise* (2022), as Caterina
- *Irma Vep* (2022), series, as Gregory's Wife — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/irma-vep-2022.md)
- *Azuro* (2022), as Gina
- *My Night* (2022), as Doctor
- *Security* (2021), as Claudia Raffaelli Santini
- *You Came Back* (2020), as Clara Fasani
- *Redemption* (2020), series, as Sara
- *Amo la tempesta* (2020), as Marina
- *The App* (2019), Actor
- *I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro* (2019), as Silvana
- *The Truth* (2019), Actor
- *Sisters in Arms* (2019), as Mother Sun
- *Collateral* (2018), series, as Berna Yalaz
- *The Royal Exchange* (2017), as Elisabeth Farnese
- *La verità sta in cielo* (2016), as Maria
- *Looking for Monica* (2016), Actor
- *Tutto può succedere* (2015), series, as Sara Ferraro
- *Storie sospese* (2015), as Giovanna
- *The Lithium Conspiracy* (2015), as Valeria Petri
- *The show MAS go on* (2014), Actor
- *The Good Life* (2014), as Elena
- *Under the Starry Sky* (2014), as Ada
- *In Treatment* (2013), series, as Irene
- *Cycling with Molière* (2013), as Francesca
- *Dormant Beauty* (2012), as Rossa
- *The Woman Dress* (2012), as The Woman
- *The First Man* (2011), as Catherine Cormery (1924)
- *See How They Dance* (2011), as Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
- *Meeting with an Angel* (2011), as Véra
- *Un altro mondo* (2010), as Ingrid
- *The Black Sheep* (2010), as Marinella
- *Two Sunny Days* (2010), as Martina
- *The Man Who Will Come* (2009), as Lena
- *Il prossimo tuo* (2009), as Maddalena
- *La voce naturale - Giving Voice* (2009), as Se stessa
- *David Copperfield* (2009), series, as Agnes Wickfield
- *Villa Amalia* (2009), as Giulia
- *All Human Rights for All* (2008), Actor
- *Einstein* (2008), series, as Mileva Marić
- *The Third Part of the World* (2008), as Chiara
- *Female Agents* (2008), as Maria Luzzato
- *Fuori dalle corde* (2007), as Anna Lo Russo
- *The Listening* (2006), as Francesca
- *Contronatura* (2005), Actor
- *An Italian Romance* (2004), as Maria
- *Il vestito da sposa* (2004), as Stella
- *The Best of Youth* (2003), series, as Mirella Utano
- *Good Morning, Night* (2003), as Chiara
- *The Best of Youth* (2003), as Mirella Utano — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-best-of-youth.md)
- *Gasoline* (2002), as Stella
- *La vita degli altri* (2002), as Silvia
- *Lupo mannaro* (2000), as Maria Grazia
- *Nella terra di nessuno* (2000), as Katia
- *A Thread of Passion* (2000), Actor
- *The Nanny* (1999), as Annetta

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