Laura Mañá Alvarenga (born 12 January 1968) is an

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. She was born in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

. As an actress, she has worked for directors such as

Bigas Luna José Juan Bigas Luna (19 March 1946 – 5 April 2013) was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong ...

Vicente Aranda Vicente Aranda Ezquerra (; 9 November 1926 – 26 May 2015) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer, producer. Due to his refined and personal style, he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a f ...

. In 1997 she directed ''Paraules'', her first short film and in 2000 her first feature film, ''Sexo por compassion'', selected at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals and awarded at the Malaga Film Festival (Best Film and Audience Award) and at the Festival de Miami (Best Screenplay), among others.

Filmography

As a director and screen writer

*'' Paraules'', 1997 *'' Sexo por compasión'', 2000 *'' Killing Words'', 2003 *'' Morir en San Hilario'', 2005 * '' Te quiero, imbécil'', 2020 * ''

Un novio para mi mujer ''A Boyfriend for My Wife'' ( es, Un Novio Para Mi Mujer) is a blockbuster 2008 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by Juan Taratuto and starring Adrián Suar, Valeria Bertuccelli, and Gabriel Goity. It was the highest grossing Argentine fi ...

'', 2022

As an actress

*'' Lolita al desnudo'', 1991 *'' La Teta y la luna'', 1994 *'' Pizza Arrabbiata'', 1995 *''

Libertarias ''Libertarias'' (English: ''Libertarians'') is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda. In 1936, Maria (Ariadna Gil), a young nun is recruited by Pilar (Ana Belén), a militant feminist, into an an ...

'', 1996 *''

Romasanta ''Romasanta'', also known as in Spanish, and ''Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt'' in English, is a 2004 Spanish-Italian-British horror film directed by Paco Plaza and starring Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky and John Sharian. It is available on DVD from ...

'', 2004

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* 1968 births Living people Actresses from Barcelona Spanish film directors Spanish women film directors Spanish women screenwriters 20th-century Spanish actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses {{Catalonia-writer-stub