Ana Torrent
{{short description|Spanish film actress (born 1966)}}
{{more footnotes|date=January 2013}}
{{family name hatnote|Torrent|Bertrán de Lis|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ana Torrent
| image = Goyas 2024 - Ana Torrent.jpg
| caption = Torrent in 2024
| birth_name = Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|07|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Madrid, Spain
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1973–present
}}
Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis (born 12 July 1966) is a Spanish film actress.{{Cite web|website=Diez Minutos|date=4 August 2018|title=Ana Torrent, 10 pistas para resumir toda una vida dedicada al cine|url=https://www.diezminutos.es/famosos-corazon/famosos-espanoles/a22623195/ana-torrent-10-pistas/|access-date=2023-09-03|language=es-ES}} 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). Her performance in Thesis (1996) earned her a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Actress.
Early life and career
Ana Torrent was born on 12 July 1966 in Madrid to an upper-class family. 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.{{Cite web|last=Román|first=Manuel|date=2019-01-12|title=El secreto mejor guardado de Ana Torrent|url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/chic/corazon/2019-01-12/el-secreto-mejor-guardado-de-ana-torrent-es-madre-de-una-hija-neoyorquina-1276631145/|access-date=2020-10-27|website=Chic|language=es-ES}} 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."{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=2023-05-18 |title=Ana Torrent On Reuniting With Víctor Erice For Cannes Title ‘Close Your Eyes’ & Why She Believes Spanish Cinema Is In A “Very Good Moment” |url=https://deadline.com/2023/05/ana-torrent-victor-erice-cannes-spanish-cinema-1235366306/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}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."{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=2023-05-18 |title=Ana Torrent On Reuniting With Víctor Erice For Cannes Title ‘Close Your Eyes’ & Why She Believes Spanish Cinema Is In A “Very Good Moment” |url=https://deadline.com/2023/05/ana-torrent-victor-erice-cannes-spanish-cinema-1235366306/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}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.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/05/ana-torrent-victor-erice-cannes-spanish-cinema-1235366306/|date=18 May 2023|first=Zac|last=Ntim|title=Ana Torrent On Reuniting With Víctor Erice For Cannes Title ‘Close Your Eyes’ & Why She Believes Spanish Cinema Is In A “Very Good Moment”|website=Deadline Hollywood}} In the film, she portrayed Ana Arenas, the daughter of long-disappeared actor Julio Arenas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publico.es/culturas/victor-erice-salda-cuentas-cine-pasado.html|website=Público|date=26 September 2023|first=Begoña|last=Piña|title=Víctor Erice salda cuentas con el cine y con su pasado en 'Cerrar los ojos'}} Also in 2023, she starred in Foremost by Night, which debuted in the Venice Days. She portrayed Cora, a woman unable to bear biological children.{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/cinemania/noticias/seminci-2023-sobre-todo-noche-historia-un-crimen-atroz-contado-deslumbrantemente-por-victor-iriarte-5183563/|website=Cinemanía|title=Seminci 2023 {{!}} 'Sobre todo de noche': la historia de un crimen atroz contada deslumbrantemente por Víctor Iriarte|first=Paula Arantzazu|last=Ruiz|date=23 October 2023|via=20minutos.es}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/sociedad/20250328/10527536/nave-10-matadero-estrena-amargas-lagrimas-petra-von-kant-adaptacion-obra-fassbinder-agenciaslv20250328.html|website=La Vanguardia|date=28 March 2025|title=Nave 10 Matadero estrena 'Las amargas lágrimas de Petra von Kant', la adaptación de la obra de Fassbinder}}
Filmography
Accolades
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0868479|name=Ana Torrent}}
- [http://www.el-mundo.es/especiales/2004/01/colmena/index.html Ana's memories of the shooting of The Spirit of the Beehive (in Spanish)]
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Category:Actresses from Madrid