Greta Scacchi
Biography
Greta Scacchi OMRI is an Italian-Australian actress born on February 18, 1960, in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Known for her work in film and television, she has earned 103 known acting credits. Her film roles include White Mischief in 1987, Presumed Innocent in 1990, The Player in 1992, Emma in 1996, and Looking for Alibrandi in 2000. Her first leading role was in the 1983 film Heat and Dust, which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for portraying Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in the television film Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny in 1996, and received a second Emmy nomination in 2006 for her role in the television film Broken Trail.
Career overview
Greta Scacchi OMRI is an Italian-Australian actress born on February 18, 1960, in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Known for her acting career across film and television, she has accumulated 103 known credits. Her film work includes prominent roles in White Mischief in 1987, Presumed Innocent in 1990, The Player in 1992, Emma in 1996, and Looking for Alibrandi in 2000. Her first leading role was in the 1983 film Heat and Dust, a performance that earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer to Film.
In television, Scacchi portrayed Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia in the television film Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny in 1996. For this role, she won a Primetime Emmy Award and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2006, she received a second Emmy nomination for her role in the television film Broken Trail, and subsequently earned her first Screen Actor recognition as detailed in her professional background.
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- Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius (2025) as Self
- Signorinella: Little Miss (2025) as Narrator
- Run Rabbit Run (2024) as Joan
- Merchant Ivory (2024) as Self
- He Ain't Heavy (2024) as Bev
- She Stoops To Conquer (2024) as Mrs Hardcastle
- I Told You So (2024) as Frances
- Bodies (2023) as The Lady
- One Trillion Dollars (2023) as Elena Vacchi
- Darby and Joan (2022) as Joan Kirkhope
- The Royal Nanny (2022) as Ms. Juliet Lansbury
- Resurrection (2021) as Mother Mary
- Shepherd (2021) as Glenys Black
- Waiting for the Barbarians (2020) as Mai
- Palm Beach (2019) as Charlotte
- Time of the Sixth Sun (2019) as Voice of the Ancient Mother
- The Terror (2018) as Lady Jane Franklin
- Operation Finale (2018) as Vera Eichmann
- Amanda (2018) as Alison
- Head Full of Honey (2018) as Abbess
- The Girl in the Fog (2017) as Beatrice Leman
- Tenderness (2017) as Aurora
- War and Peace (2016) as Natalya Rostova
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer (2016)
- The White King (2016) as General Meade
- A.D. The Bible Continues (2015) as Mother Mary
- North v South (2015) as Mrs Singer
- The Falling (2015) as Miss Edith Mantel
- The Last Impresario (2014) as Self
- Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011) as Helen van Zandt
- Ways to Live Forever (2010) as Mrs. Willis
- Un Altro Mondo (2010) as Cristina
- Brideshead Revisited (2008) as Cara
- Miss Austen Regrets (2008) as Cassandra Austen
- The Trojan Horse (2008) as Helen Madigan
- Hidden Love (2007) as D.ssa Dubois
- Shoot on Sight (2007) as Susan Ali
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006) as Dr. Katie Arlen
- Broken Trail (2006) as Nola Johns
- Two Twisted (2006) as Dr. Adele Partridge
- The Book of Revelation (2006) as Isabel
- Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western (2006) as self
- Icicle Melt (2006) as Madeleine
- The Handyman (2006) as Julia Parchant
- Flightplan (2005) as Therapist
- Nigella (2005) as Self
- Wimbledon 2005 Official Film (2005) as Narrator
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) as Tuppence
- Under a False Name (2004) as Nicoletta
- Beyond the Sea (2004) as Mary Duvan
- L'ombra cinese (2004) as Juliette Martin
- The Afternoon Play (2003) as Diane
- Il ronzio delle mosche (2003) as Dottoresa Natalia
- Baltic Storm (2003) as Julia Reuter
- One of the Hollywood Ten (2002) as Gale Sondergaard
- Daniel Deronda (2002) as Lydia Glasher
- Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002) as Margaret Thatcher
- Richard & Judy (2001) as Self
- Festival in Cannes (2001) as Alice Palmer
- The Farm (2001) as Liz Cooper
- Looking for Alibrandi (2000) as Christina Alibrandi
- Love & Rage (2000) as Agnes MacDonnell
- Ladies Room (1999) as Lucia
- Tom's Midnight Garden (1999) as Aunt Gwen Kitson
- Cotton Mary (1999) as Lily MacIntosh
- The Manor (1999) as Mrs. Ravenscroft
- The Red Violin (1998) as Victoria Byrd (Oxford)
- Macbeth (1998) as Lady Macbeth
- The Odyssey (1997) as Penelope
- The Serpent's Kiss (1997) as Juliana
- Cosi (1996) as Mental Patient (uncredited)
- Emma (1996) as Mrs. Weston
- Rasputin (1996) as Tsarina Alexandra
- Jefferson in Paris (1995) as Maria Cosway
- The Browning Version (1994) as Laura Crocker-Harris
- Country Life (1994) as Deborah Voysey
- The Player (1992) as June Gudmundsdottir
- Robert Altman's Players (1992) as Self
- Salt on Our Skin (1992) as George
- Turtle Beach (1992) as Judith
- Shattered (1991) as Judith Merrick
- Fires Within (1991) as Isabel
- Presumed Innocent (1990) as Carolyn Polhemus
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Mrs. Burton-Cox
- Woman in the Moon (1988) as Angela
- Love and Fear (1988) as Maria
- White Mischief (1987) as Diana, Lady Broughton
- A Man in Love (1987) as Jane Steiner
- Good Morning, Babylon (1987) as Edna Bonnano
- Defence of the Realm (1986) as Nina Beckman
- Burke & Wills (1985) as Julia Matthews
- The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) as Terri
- Camille (1984) as Marguerite Gautier
- The Ebony Tower (1984) as Diana, 'The Mouse'
- Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984) as Anna-Luise Fischer
- Waterfront (1984) as Anna Chieri
- Heat and Dust (1983) as Olivia Rivers
- Dead on Time (1983)
- Second Sight (1982) as Anna
- Bergerac (1981) as Annie
- Film '72 (1971) as Self
- Time & Tide - A Trilogy