Acting
Marial Bajma-Riva
Born
1995-07-18 (31)
Known for
Acting
Credits
13 titles
Marial Bajma-Riva, is an Italian actress and professional dancer. She is highly recognized for her international versatility, performing fluently as a native speaker in both Italian and French, as well as in English, across film, television, and theater. She began her artistic journey as a classical dancer. She trained rigorously from a young age, earning her professional diploma from the prestigious Académie de Danse Princesse Grace in Monaco. Seeking to blend her movement skills with vocal and dramatic arts, she moved to the United States to complete the high-level Musical Theater Dance Intensive (MTDI) at the Boston Conservatory.Her passion for pure acting led her to Rome, where she grad…
Known for
6.8When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
The First Omen
2024
7.4In late 19th-century Turin, young Lidia Poët fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers; a profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.
The Law According to Lidia Poët
2023
6.6Toni Chichiarelli arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a painter, but his talent leads him elsewhere — from art galleries to state secrets. Between art, crime, and power, his signature ends up everywhere — even in the history of Italy.
The Big Fake
2025
6.8Genoa. Two failed marriages behind her, free from romantic ties, unconventional, and constantly searching for her place in the world, protagonist Petra Delicato—played by Paola Cortellesi—formerly a lawyer, now an inspector in the Flying Squad. Thanks to her new assignment, which will lead her to face new challenges, she will be able to get back on track, not only professionally. Her frankness, her direct manner, and her biting, witty wit will also shape her relationship with her colleague Monte (Andrea Pennacchi), with whom, despite their numerous personality differences, she will build a solid professional affinity as well as a sincere friendship.
Petra
2020
6.5Italian crime drama from Walter Presents. Teresa Battaglia is a resolute police detective with a secret. She and her team investigate brutal murders that have their roots in the past.
The Teresa Battaglia Cases
2023
NRA Japanese father arrives in Rome to clear out his deceased daughter's room. He speaks neither the language nor knows the life she led—until he meets the girl she loved. Together, they traverse a foreign city, carrying the weight of a grief that belongs to neither of them.
Welcome back Yukiko
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Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
6.8When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
The First Omen
2024
6.6Toni Chichiarelli arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a painter, but his talent leads him elsewhere — from art galleries to state secrets. Between art, crime, and power, his signature ends up everywhere — even in the history of Italy.
The Big Fake
2025
7.5Thiago Soares is a young man from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro who leaves hip hop behind and embarks on the world of classical ballet. His story takes on unexpected turns through his troubled relationship with his mentor, the Cuban Dino Carrera, who improves Thiago's talent until he reaches stardom by becoming the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London.
A Wolf Among the Swans
2025
7.8A deaf homeless man saves a defenceless girl from an attempted rape. Shocked and moved, the girl thanks him and asks if there is any way she can make it up to him. The homeless man asks for nothing in return, but then two wings incredibly emerge from the girl's back…
Intolerance
2020
NRSeventies. In the unprecedented setting of an arbëresh community (the Albanians of Italy) in a small town nestled in the hills of Ionian Calabria, Marco, a thirteen-year-old boy, finds himself having to manage a complicated family situation. By chance he discovers that her sister Elisa, a university student in Cosenza, has a reaction with a married man much older than her.
La festa del ritorno
2023
6.1Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust...
Governance
2021
2010s · 2 titles
6.6Do you remember your first trip? Not the one you made at 5 years old with your parents to the East Coast of the United States. I mean the first time you traveled alone!? The great adventure. In 1991, I was a 21-years-old student. I went to Europe. Not because I wanted to visit all the great capitals, but because I wanted love... I wanted Marie-Ève Bernard.
1991
2018
4.5A depressed man who lacks inspiration must write a successful hip hop record for a super-star singer, while his relationships with his daughter, his former girlfriend, a new girl he met on a social network, his roommate and his therapist (all women) will (directly and undirectly) help him to solve his personal, familiar and working problems.
6 meglio di me
2018
Undated · 2 titles
NRA Japanese father arrives in Rome to clear out his deceased daughter's room. He speaks neither the language nor knows the life she led—until he meets the girl she loved. Together, they traverse a foreign city, carrying the weight of a grief that belongs to neither of them.
Welcome back Yukiko
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Italian small Town Serial Killer Thriller shot on 35mm.
Porcelain Bodies Abandoned in the Sun on a Scorching Summer in Central Italy
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Series credits
7.4In late 19th-century Turin, young Lidia Poët fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers; a profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.
The Law According to Lidia Poët
2023
6.8Genoa. Two failed marriages behind her, free from romantic ties, unconventional, and constantly searching for her place in the world, protagonist Petra Delicato—played by Paola Cortellesi—formerly a lawyer, now an inspector in the Flying Squad. Thanks to her new assignment, which will lead her to face new challenges, she will be able to get back on track, not only professionally. Her frankness, her direct manner, and her biting, witty wit will also shape her relationship with her colleague Monte (Andrea Pennacchi), with whom, despite their numerous personality differences, she will build a solid professional affinity as well as a sincere friendship.
Petra
2020
6.5Italian crime drama from Walter Presents. Teresa Battaglia is a resolute police detective with a secret. She and her team investigate brutal murders that have their roots in the past.
The Teresa Battaglia Cases
2023