Ana Torrent

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]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Torrent and the second or maternal family name is Bertrán de Lis.
Ana Torrent
Born
Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis

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

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
YearFilmRoleNotes Ref.
1973El espíritu de la colmenaAna [3]
1976Cría cuervosAna
1977Elisa, vida míaNiña Elisa
1979OgroNiña vasca
1980The NestGoyita
1985Los paraísos perdidos (The Lost Paradise)Andrea [4]
1989Sangre y arenaCarmen Espinosa
1992VacasCatalina [5]
1992Amor e Dedinhos de PéVictorina Vidal
1994Entre rojasLa Tacatún [6]
1995Puede ser divertidoCarmen
1995El palomo cojo (The Lame Pigeon)Adoración [7]
1996TesisÁngela [8]
1998El grito en el cieloYoli
1999YoyesYoyes
2001SagitarioLuisa
2001Juego de Luna (Luna's Game)LunaYounger versions of the character played by Dafne Fernández and Gara Muñoz[9]
2003Una preciosa puesta de solElena
2004Iris Magdalena
200814, Fabian RoadVega Galindo[10]
2008The Other Boleyn GirlCatherine of Aragon
2009NO-DO (The Haunting)Francesca [11]
2011 There Be DragonsDoña Dolores
2017Verónica (Veronica)Ana
2020It Snows in BenidormLucía
2023Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes)Ana Arenas[12]
Sobre todo de noche (Foremost by Night)Cora[13]

Accolades

Fotogramas de Plata

  • 1974 Won Fotogramas de Plata Award Best Spanish Movie Performer

Goya Awards

  • 1997 Nominated Goya Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) for: Tesis (1996)

Gramado Film Festival

  • 1996 Won Golden Kikito Award Latin Competition: Best Actress for: Tesis (1996)

Montréal World Film Festival

  • 1980 Won Best Actress for: El Nido (1980)

Premios ACE

  • 2004 Nominated Best Actress for: Una preciosa puesta de sol (2003)
  • 1997 Won Best Actress for: Tesis (1996)

Toulouse Cinespaña

  • 2000 Won Best Actress for: Yoyes (2000)

References
  1. "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. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Rooney, David (9 October 1995). "The Lame Pigeon". Variety.
  8. Escobar, María Eugenia (1999). "Mirada, voyeurismo y transgresión en el cine". Nomadías. Santiago: Universidad de Chile (4): 70.
  9. Schwartz, Ronald (2008). Great Spanish Films Since 1950. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8108-5405-5.
  10. Holland, Jonathan (21 April 2008). "14, Fabian Road". Variety.
  11. "El 'No-Do' de Elio Quiroga llega a Los Angeles". La Provincia. Prensa Ibérica. 17 September 2009.
  12. "Close Your Eyes" (PDF). Festival de Cannes. May 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  13. ""Sobre todo de noche", de Víctor Iriarte, competirá en Giornate degli Autore de Venecia". EiTB. 27 July 2023.
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