Ariadna Gil

Film director Bigas Luna discovered her for the 1986 movie Lola. After four films primarily in Catalan, though partly in Spanish and French, she took part in a movie exclusively in Spanish shot in 1991, Emilio Martínez Lázaro's Amo tu cama rica, and has gone on to play in myriad films and series in Catalan, Spanish, French and English, among other languages. Between 1993 and 2007, she performed in more than thirty films, including Libertarias, directed by Vicente Aranda; Pan's Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro; and Soldados de Salamina, directed by her former husband David Trueba. Gil was married to screenwriter, director, and novelist David Trueba with whom she has two children, Violeta (b. 1997) and Leo (b. 2003).