Anna Ferzetti was born in Rome in 1982.
After studying acting in Italy and abroad, she made her theatre debut at a very young age alongside her father, Gabriele Ferzetti.
She was subsequently directed by Giorgio Albertazzi in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is one of the performers in Servo per due, a production that ran for three years, directed by Pierfrancesco Favino and Paolo Sassanelli, with whom she continued to work for two seasons in La Controra, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters; she was also directed by Roberto Andò in Bella Figura, written by Yasmina Reza. For two consecutive years, she appeared in the play Perfetti Sconosciuti, directed by Paolo Genovese, who made his theatrical directorial debut by bringing to the stage an adaptation of one of his most recent and brilliant cinematic comedies. We will soon see her on stage in the play adapted from People Places and Things written by Duncan Macmillan and directed by Pierfrancesco Favino.
Alongside her theatre work, she has appeared in several successful television projects, including Braccialetti Rossi, Rocco Schiavone, Duisburg – Linea di Sangue, and is among the cast of two major series: Una mamma imperfetta, written by Ivan Cotroneo, and Skam, by Ludovico Bessegato for Timvision and Netflix.
She appears in the series Curon, directed by Fabio Mollo and Lyda Patitucci for Netflix, and in the second season of Volevo fare la Rockstar, directed by Matteo Oleotto; she is also directed by Ferzan Ozpetek and Gianluca Mazzella in the Disney+ TV series Le fate ignoranti, her performance earned her the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actress and the Flaiano Award for Best Actress; she is also directed by Luca Ribuoli in the series Call My Agent. She appears in the series Un estate fa, directed by Davide Marengo and Marta Savina, and in the series Avetrana – Qui non è Hollywood, directed by Pippo Mezzapesa and produced by Groenlandia. On the big screen, she appears in Terapia di Coppia per Amanti, directed by Alessio Maria Federici, in Il colore nascosto delle cose by Silvio Soldini, presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival, and, in a leading role, in the film Finding Camille by Bindu De Stoppani, presented in 2016 at the Rome Film Festival in the ‘Alice nella città’ section. She returned to work with Silvio Soldini in 3/19 and appeared in the cast of Giovanni Veronesi’s Tutti per 1-1 per Tutti, Alessio Maria Federici’s I(m)perfetti Criminali, Fabio Mollo’s My soulsummer, and Massimiliano Bruno’s I peggiori Giorni. She also starred in the film Il Nibbio, directed by Alessandro Tonda, and Facciamo Tutti, directed by Paola Randi; furthermore, she was once again directed by Fezan Ozpetek in the film Diamanti, which won the ‘David dello spettatore’ at the latest David di Donatello Awards and the ‘Il Nastro dell’anno 2025’ at the Nastri D’Argento, the latter awarded by the Board of Film Journalists, and Domani Interrogo directed by Umberto Riccioni Carteni, as well as in Andrea De Sica’s film Gli occhi degli altri. Finally, she was directed by Paolo Sorrentino in the film La Grazia, for which she won the 2025 Special Pasinetti Award.
For her performance in the film Domani è un altro giorno, directed by Simone Spada, she was nominated for the 2019 Nastri D’Argento and the 2020 David di Donatello Awards for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFF – Busto Arsizio Film Festival 2019 Award for Best Supporting Actress. She presented the 2019 and 2020 editions of the Nastri d’Argento and, in 2021 and 2022, the Taormina Film Festival. She is currently on tour with the play “People, Places & Things”, directed by Pierfrancesco Favino.