Icíar Bollaín is a Spanish actress and director. She starred in El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) at the age of sixteen. Later, she worked on different feature films, television series and an opera. In 1991, together with Santiago García de Leániz and Gonzalo Tapia, she founded Producciones La Iguana, and she took her first steps in directing the short films Baja, corazón (1993) and Los amigos del muerto (1994). Her first full-length film Hola, ¿estás sola? (1995) was followed by Flores de otro mundo (1999), Te doy mis ojos (2003), for which she was indisputably commended as one of the leading directors. This was based on the short film Amores que matan, a mockumentary on gender violence, which the feature film addressed in a complex way. It garnered rave reviews and won seven Goya Awards. Afterwards she directed Mataharis (2007), También la lluvia (2010), Katmandú, un espejo en el cielo (2011), En tierra extraña (2014), El Olivo (2016), Yuri (2018) and La boda de Rosa (2020). Her latest film, Maixabel, is an entry for the San Sebastian Festival in 2021.