Ana Torrent

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Torrent and the second or maternal family name is Bertrán de Lis.
Ana Torrent
Torrent in 2024
Born
Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis

(1966-07-12) 12 July 1966 (age 59)
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

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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] In reference to her recruitment for this first film, Torrent stated:

"I remember meeting Victor for the first time. He was standing around during recess at my school, taking pictures of me and other girls. He was traveling around many schools to find a young girl to cast. I remember telling my parents that some man is taking pictures of me at school. Then they called on me one day while I was in class and mentioned the movie. I also remember some things from the shoot: the atmosphere, the sounds, the lights. It wasn’t a difficult process because it wasn’t acting. I never considered myself an actress. I was just playing myself, a child, and they gave me instructions. I remember my character in the film was even supposed to have a different name, but at that age, I didn’t understand why they weren’t calling me my name, so Victor changed it to Anna. I wasn’t conscious of acting at all, and I didn’t understand what I was doing. It was just like a big mysterious game."[3]

After The Spirit of the Beehive, she played a character with the same name in Cría Cuervos (Raise Ravens) (1976) by director Carlos Saura. Despite her success in film as a young child, she later recounted how it was not until her teens that she began to consider herself to really be an actress:

"It was much later. My role in The Spirit of the Beehive was a coincidence. I would have never chosen to be an actress myself. And my family had nothing to do with the film world. I was a shy and reserved person. I wasn’t like the other kids that wanted to perform in the theatre. I began to understand what acting was, and I began to enjoy it when I was 17 or 18. Again it was thanks to Victor. We kept in touch after The Spirit of the Beehive, and when I was around 16, we were speaking, and he asked me what I wanted to do career-wise. I wasn’t sure, and he asked if I thought about acting and recommended I take some acting classes. I began classes around 17, and that’s when I knew I wanted to do this for a living."[4]

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 (2000) 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.

More recently, she rejoined Erice to star in the film Close Your Eyes. It premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, marking Torrent's return to Cannes after the presentation of Cría cuervos in 1976.[5] In the film, she portrayed Ana Arenas, the daughter of long-disappeared actor Julio Arenas.[6] Also in 2023, she starred in Foremost by Night, which debuted in the Venice Days.[7] She portrayed Cora, a woman unable to bear biological children.[7]

In March 2025, she debuted in the play The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (a Rakel Camacho's adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play) at Nave 10 Matadero.[8]

Filmography

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Year Film Role Notes Ref.
1973 El espíritu de la colmena Ana
[9]
1976 Cría cuervos Ana
1977 Elisa, vida mía Niña Elisa
1979 Ogro Niña vasca
1980 El nido (The Nest) Goyita
[10]
1985 Los paraísos perdidos (The Lost Paradise) Andrea [11]
1989 Sangre y arena Carmen Espinosa
1992 Vacas Catalina [12]
1992 Amor e Dedinhos de Pé Victorina Vidal
1994 Entre rojas La Tacatún [13]
1995 Puede ser divertido Carmen
[14]
1995 El palomo cojo (The Lame Pigeon) Adoración [15]
1996 Tesis (Thesis) Ángela [16]
1998 El grito en el cielo (Shoot Out) Yoli
[17]
2000 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 [18]
2003 Una preciosa puesta de sol Elena
2004 Iris Magdalena
[19]
2008 14, Fabian Road Vega Galindo [20]
2008 The Other Boleyn Girl Catherine of Aragon
2009 NO-DO (The Haunting) Francesca [21]
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 [22]
Sobre todo de noche (Foremost by Night) Cora [23]
2025
 La furia (Fury) Directora teatral de Medea ('stage director of Medea') [24]

Accolades

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Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1997
 11th Goya Awards Best Actress Thesis Nominated
[25]
2024
 11th Feroz Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Film Close Your Eyes Nominated
[26]
16th Gaudí Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
[27]
38th Goya Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
[28]
11th Platino Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
[29]

References

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