) is a Spanish

Spanish people

The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....

 TV, cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actress.

Early life

Anna's father was a mechanic and her mother a dressmaker. Anna showed enormous interest in theatre when she was a child. She studied theatre in the Centre d'Estudis Experimentals of Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 and was one of the first members of Els Comediants. In 1974, she moved to Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 to study with the famous mime

Mime

The word mime is used to refer to a mime artist who uses a theatrical medium or performance art involving the acting out of a story through body motions without use of speech.Mime may also refer to:* Mime, an alternative word for lip sync...

 Jacques Lecoq

Jacques Lecoq

Jacques Pierre Lecoq born in Paris, was a French actor, mime and acting instructor.He is most famous for his methods on physical theatre, movement and mime that he taught at the school he founded in Paris, L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq from 1956 until his death in...

.

Career

When Anna returned to Barcelona in 1976, she started working in the Teatre Lliure

Teatre Lliure

The Teatre Lliure is a theatre in Barcelona considered one of the most prestigious in Catalonia. It was created in 1976 in the neighborhood of Gràcia by a group of professionals from Barcelona's independent theater scene. It became distinguished for its practice of presenting theater in Catalan,...

. She has since starred in several famous Spanish movies, such as High Heels

Tacones lejanos

High Heels is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Marisa Paredes, Victoria Abril and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother who is a famous torch song singer and the grown daughter she had abandoned as a child...

(together with co-star Penélope Cruz) and Actrius

Actrius

Actrius is a 1996 film directed by Ventura Pons. In the film, there are no male actors and the four leading actresses dubbed themselves in the Castilian version.-Synopsis:...

. In 1996, she directed the TV show Arsènic i puntes de coixí para televisión.

Filmography

• Morir (o no) (2000)
• La primera noche de mi vida(1998)
• Actrius
  Actrius
  Actrius is a 1996 film directed by Ventura Pons. In the film, there are no male actors and the four leading actresses dubbed themselves in the Castilian version.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1997)
• La Celestina
  La Celestina
  La Celestina , actually called Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, in English Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea), is a work composed entirely in dialogue published by Fernando de Rojas in 1499...
  
  (1996)
• El perquè de tot plegat (1995)
• Souvenir (1994)
• High Heels
  Tacones lejanos
  High Heels is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Marisa Paredes, Victoria Abril and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother who is a famous torch song singer and the grown daughter she had abandoned as a child...
  
  (1991)
• La teranyina (1990)
• La plaça del diamant (1982)
• El vicari d'Olot(1980)
• Salut i força al canut (1979)

Theater

• 1976: "Camí de nit, 1854".
• 1977: "Titus Andrònic" • "Leonci i Lena" • "La cacatúa verda" • "Ascensió i caiguda de la ciutat de Mahagonny".
• 1978: "La vida del Rei Eduard II d'Anglaterra" • "La nit de les tríbades" • "Hedda Gabler".
• 1979: "La bella Helena" • "Les tres germanes".
• 1980: "Jordi Dandin" • "El balcó".
• 1981: "Operació Ubú".
• 1982: "El misàntrop" • "Primera història d'Esther".
• 1983: "Al vostre gust" • "Advertència per a embarcacions petites".
• 1984: "Una jornada particular".
• 1985: "Un dels últims vespres de carnaval" • "La senyoreta Júlia".
• 1986: "La senyora de Sade".
• 1987: "Lorenzaccio, Lorenzaccio" • "El 30 d'abril".
• 1988: "La bona persona del Sezuàn".
• 1990: "Maria Estuard" • "Un capvespre al jardí".
• 1991: "El cántaro roto".
• 1992: "Dansa d'agost" • "El dol escau a Electra" • "El parc".
• 1993: "Roberto Zucco".
• 1994: "Un dels últims vespres de carnaval" • "Les noces de Fígaro" • "Quartet".
• 1995: "Arsènic i puntes de coixí".
• 1996: "Lear o el somni d'una actriu" • "El temps i l'habitació".
• 1998: "Quartet" • "Morir" • "Galatea".
• 1999: "Tot esperant Godot" • "La nit de les Tríbades".
• 2000: "L'hort dels cirerers".
• 2001: "L'adéu de Lucrècia Borja".
• 2002: "Escenes d'una execució" • "Testimoni Verdaguer".
• 2003: "Homenatge a Josep Montanyés" • "El retorn al desert".
• 2004: "Forasters" • "Dissabte, diumenge i dilluns".
• 2005: "Un matrimoni de Boston" • "Homenatge a Carlota Soldevila".
• 2006: "Rosencrantz y Guilderstein són morts" • "Hamlet" • "La tempestad" .

External links

• Theater works of Anna Lizaran