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Ana Torrent
Born
Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis

(1966-07-12) 12 July 1966 (age 57)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationActress
Years active1973–present

Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis (born 12 July 1966) is a Spanish film actress.[1] She featured as a child actress in pictures such as The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and Cría cuervos (1976), Elisa, vida mía (1977) and The Nest (1980).[1] Her performance in Thesis (1996) earned her a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Actress.[1]

Early life and career

Ana Torrent was born on 12 July 1966 in Madrid to an upper-class family.[1] Her debut came in 1973 with the starring role as "Ana" in the film El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive), directed by Víctor Erice, when she was seven years old.[2] This was followed by another memorable role in which she played another character with the same name in Cría Cuervos (Raise Ravens) (1976) by director Carlos Saura.

In 1989, Torrent performed with Sharon Stone in the film Blood and Sand directed by Javier Elorrieta. In 1996, Torrent received numerous awards and nominations, including a Goya Award nomination for her lead actress role in Alejandro Amenábar's film Tesis (Thesis). By the end of the 1990s, she received critical acclaim when she played a Basque nationalist murdered for quitting ETA, in the film Yoyes (1999) directed by Helena Taberna. In 2008, Torrent portrayed Catherine of Aragon in the film The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), starring alongside Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes Ref.
1973 El espíritu de la colmena Ana
[3]
1976 Cría cuervos Ana
1977 Elisa, vida mía Niña Elisa
1979 Ogro Niña vasca
1980 El nido (The Nest) Goyita
[4]
1985 Los paraísos perdidos (The Lost Paradise) Andrea [5]
1989 Sangre y arena Carmen Espinosa
1992 Vacas Catalina [6]
1992 Amor e Dedinhos de Pé Victorina Vidal
1994 Entre rojas La Tacatún [7]
1995 Puede ser divertido Carmen
1995 El palomo cojo (The Lame Pigeon) Adoración [8]
1996 Tesis (Thesis) Ángela [9]
1998 El grito en el cielo Yoli
1999 Yoyes Yoyes
2001 Sagitario Luisa
2001 Juego de Luna (Luna's Game) Luna Younger versions of the character played by Dafne Fernández and Gara Muñoz [10]
2003 Una preciosa puesta de sol Elena
2004 Iris Magdalena
[11]
2008 14, Fabian Road Vega Galindo [12]
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl Catherine of Aragon
2009 NO-DO (The Haunting) Francesca [13]
2011 There Be Dragons Doña Dolores
2017 Verónica (Veronica) Ana
2020 It Snows in Benidorm Lucía
2023 Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes) Ana Arenas [14]
Sobre todo de noche (Foremost by Night) Cora [15]

Accolades

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1997
 11th Goya Awards Best Actress Thesis Nominated
[16]
2024
 11th Feroz Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Film Close Your Eyes Pending
[17]
16th Gaudí Awards Best Supporting Actress Pending
[18]
38th Goya Awards Best Supporting Actress Pending
[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Ana Torrent, 10 pistas para resumir toda una vida dedicada al cine". Diez Minutos (in European Spanish). 4 August 2018. Retrieved 2023-09-03.
  2. ^ Román, Manuel (2019-01-12). "El secreto mejor guardado de Ana Torrent". Chic (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  3. ^ "Ana Torrent: "Hay pocos papeles interesantes para actrices en la cincuentena"". abc (in Spanish). 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  4. ^ Paracuellos, P (25 August 2017). ""El romance poético de 'El nido' es una lucha por recuperar el Edén"". El Comercio. Grupo Vocento.
  5. ^ Pavlović, Tatjana (2008). "Los paraísos perdidos: Cinema of Return and Repetition (Basilio Martín Patino, 1985)". In Resina, Joan Ramon (ed.). Burning Darkness. A Half Century of Spanish Cinema. State University of New York Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7914-7503-4.
  6. ^ Costa Villaverde, Elisa (2008). "Julio Medem: Vacas. Cineasta y película claves en el proceso de reconfiguración del cine español de los noventa". In Soledad, Marie (ed.). Le cinéma de Julio Medem. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle. pp. 23–40. ISBN 9782878547481.
  7. ^ Faulkner, Sally (2020). "Middlebrow cinema by women directors in the 1990s". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. 21 (1): 72. doi:10.1080/14636204.2020.1720985.
  8. ^ Rooney, David (9 October 1995). "The Lame Pigeon". Variety.
  9. ^ Escobar, María Eugenia (1999). "Mirada, voyeurismo y transgresión en el cine". Nomadías. Santiago: Universidad de Chile (4): 70.
  10. ^ Schwartz, Ronald (2008). Great Spanish Films Since 1950. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8108-5405-5.
  11. ^ Holland, Jonathan (28 July 2004). "Iris". Variety.
  12. ^ Holland, Jonathan (21 April 2008). "14, Fabian Road". Variety.
  13. ^ "El 'No-Do' de Elio Quiroga llega a Los Angeles". La Provincia. Prensa Ibérica. 17 September 2009.
  14. ^ "Close Your Eyes" (PDF). Festival de Cannes. May 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  15. ^ ""Sobre todo de noche", de Víctor Iriarte, competirá en Giornate degli Autore de Venecia". EiTB. 27 July 2023.
  16. ^ Viaje al cine español. 25 años de los Premios Goya (PDF), Lunwerg, 2011, p. 279, ISBN 978-84-9785-791-8
  17. ^ "'Cerrar los ojos', '20.000 especies de abejas' y 'Un amor' encabezan las nominaciones a los Premios Feroz". rtve.es. 23 November 2023.
  18. ^ ""Creatura" i "Saben aquell", màximes favorites als Premis Gaudí: totes les nominacions". 3/24. 12 December 2023.
  19. ^ Chico, Fran (17 January 2024). "Todos los nominados de los Premios Goya 2024: '20.000 especies de abejas' y 'La sociedad de la nieve', grandes favoritas". Fotogramas.

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