Ana Torrent Bertrán de Lis (born 12 July 1966) is a Spanish film actress.
[1] She featured as a child actress in pictures such as The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and Cría cuervos (1976), Elisa, vida mía (1977) and The Nest (1980).
[1] Her debut came in 1973 with the starring role as "Ana" in the film El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive), directed by Víctor Erice, when she was seven years old.
I remember my character in the film was even supposed to have a different name, but at that age, I didn’t understand why they weren’t calling me my name, so Victor changed it to Anna.
"[3]After The Spirit of the Beehive, she played a character with the same name in Cría Cuervos (Raise Ravens) (1976) by director Carlos Saura.
"[4]In 1989, Torrent performed with Sharon Stone in the film Blood and Sand directed by Javier Elorrieta.
By the end of the 1990s, she received critical acclaim when she played a Basque nationalist murdered for quitting ETA, in the film Yoyes (2000) directed by Helena Taberna.
In 2008, Torrent portrayed Catherine of Aragon in the film The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), starring alongside Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.