Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya gave one of the most quietly devastating performances I've seen in Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, and the Goya for Best Actress was the least the industry could do. She'd already announced herself in Sex and Lucia years earlier, but that 2011 role asked her to carry unbearable ambiguity, and she never blinked. I like that she works across Spanish and international cinema without chasing Hollywood blandness. There's a watchfulness to her, a sense she's always thinking a layer beneath the dialogue. She's the kind of actor whose name in a cast list makes me trust the film a little more.

Name (English)

Elena Anaya

Name (Japanese)

エレナ・アナヤ

Reading

えれな・あなや

Born

July 17, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Palencia, Palencia Province, Spain

Occupation

actor / film actor

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Goya Award for Best Actress
• 2009 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/elenaanaya_/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Anaya
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240949

Tags

• Palencia Province
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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