Celebrity Biographies
Icíar bollain
She worked as an actress with great directors such as Víctor Erice, José Luis Borau and Ken Loach. One fine day, Icíar Bollaín decided to emulate her steps by becoming a director in turn, and she immediately positioned herself as one of the most interesting authors in Spanish cinema.
The daughter of a businessman and a music teacher, Icíar Bollaín was born on June 12, 1967, just like Marina, his twin sister. At the age of 16, she was chosen by Víctor Erice , considered one of the great directors of Spanish cinema, to star in El sur . A complex drama about the relationship between a young woman and her father ( Omero Antonutti ), Erice had to stop filming halfway through due to financial problems at the production company of Elías Querejeta , which decided to release what was already ready.
He then decided to enroll in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is passionate about impressionist painting, she likes to paint portraits. But she also took an acting course with Lee Strasberg , and she continued acting. Her second film was Las dos orillas , directed by Juan Sebastián Bollaín, her uncle. Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón gave her a leading role in Malaventura and she also took part in the television series Miguel Servet, la sangre y la ash .
In the 90s, she starred in Sublet , Chus Gutiérrez ‘s first film , where she was a Spaniard traveling to New York. In addition to the comedy An Umbrella for Three , she once again puts herself under the command of her uncle in Tell Me a Lie , co-starring her sister Marina de ella. At this stage, her most successful film was Tierra y libertad , in which Ken Loach addressed the Spanish Civil War. She played Maite, a militiawoman in the midst of clashes between the different republican factions: anarchists, Trotskyists and anarchists. During the filming she met the man of her life, the screenwriter Paul Averty, normally associated with British cinema. They currently have 3 children.
Bollaín was not always offered to play high-quality films. In any case, she decided to become a director herself. She debuted with Hello Are You Alone? , a very light comedy starring Silke and Candela Peña , which does not allow one to guess where her career was going to develop behind the cameras. She herself had written the script with Julio Medem .
She continued to act in films like Niño nadie , by José Luis Borau , who once again featured her in Leo . But since the late 1990s, she has gained greater notoriety as a director, especially after Flores de otro mundo , a solid dramatic comedy about a group of women who go to a party in a town where no one is of marriageable age.
Luis Tosar was already on that tape , who repeated the filmmaker’s orders in Te doy mis ojos , about the problem of ill-treatment. Bollaín offers a complete vision of the subject, and he won 7 Goya awards, among them those related to film and direction. Perhaps Mataharis , a correct film about three women who try to reconcile their personal lives with their profession as private detectives, had a minor impact . También la lluvia is her fifth feature film as a director.