Anaïs Schaaff i Moll (born 13 March 1974) is a Spanish television writer and producer.

Biography

Schaaff was born in

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to television director and producer Sergi Schaaff (1937–2023) and actress (born 1944), and has a sister Abigail who is a director. She graduated in the humanities from the

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

before studying writing and direction at the

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. Unable to make a living from theatre, Schaaff asked for television work from her father, the creator and director of the

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(TVE)

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'' Saber y ganar''. She then passed an audition to write for the children's programme ''

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'', and wrote for the first three seasons of the

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drama series ''

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''. There, she met , with whom she created and wrote the detective series ' (2012–2014), also co-operating on ''Isabel'' (a 2012 historical drama about

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) and the 1940s-set period drama '' La sonata de silencio'' (2016). In 2013, Schaaff and Olivares set up the production company Cliffhanger TV, responsible for the

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

series '' El ministerio del tiempo'' which ran on La 1 from 2015 to 2020. She was also a producer and wrote an accompanying novel for the series. Schaaff was the creator of ''La última'', a five-episode 2022 musical drama directed by her sister and starring singer Aitana in her first acting role. It was the first series from Spain to be streamed by Disney+, being titled ''Our Only Chance'' in English.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schaaff, Anais 1974 births Living people Pompeu Fabra University alumni Spanish television writers Spanish television producers Spanish science fiction writers