Óliver Laxe Coro (born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry.

[2] Laxe was born in Paris, the son of Galician emigrants.

After completing his secondary education in A Coruña he moved to Barcelona where he studied filmmaking at the Pompeu Fabra University, before relocating to London where he filmed his first short Y las chimeneas decidieron escapar.

His next film Mimosas was shot in the Atlas Mountains.

It was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Critics' Week section, where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize.