Sólveig Anspach (8 December 1960 – 7 August 2015)[1] was an Icelandic-French film director and screenwriter.
Born to a German-Romanian father Gerhard Anspach and an Icelandic mother Högna Sigurðardóttir, she spent most of her life living and working in France.
[2] After studying philosophy and clinical psychology in Paris, she enrolled in La Fémis and graduated with a diploma in directing in 1989.
Her film Stormy Weather was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
[3] Anspach died of breast cancer on 7 August 2015 at the age of 54.