Elena Anaya Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: For many of those who realize their calling in life at an early age, the world is wide open with success and opportunity at every turn. When Spanish actress Elena Anaya felt that her talents gravitated toward a life on the stage and screen, the aspiring young actress spared precious little time in...Read More

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Savage Grace

Actors: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya

Synopsis: Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barbara Baekeland. Stephen Dillane stars as Brooks Baekeland, the son of the man who invented Bakelite, one of the early forms of plastic. As the family Read More

5/30/08
In the Land of Women

Actors: Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis, Makenzie Vega

Synopsis: A man having trouble with women suddenly finds himself surrounded by them in this independent comedy drama. Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a successful writer who has fallen into an emotional tailspin after his girlfriend, well-known actress Sophia (Elena Anaya), breaks up with him. When Carter Read More

4/20/07
Alatriste

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega, Alex O'Dogherty, Nacho Perez, Juan Echanove

Synopsis: A fierce soldier fighting for the Spanish cause in Flanders returns to a drastically different Spain to fulfill the dying wish of a fallen friend, only to find that life isn't what it once was in his decaying homeland in director Agustín Díaz Yanes' adaptation of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's popular Read More

1/1/07
Dead Fish

Actors: Gary Oldman

Synopsis: Gary Oldman, Terence Stamp, Robert Carlyle, and Billy Zane headline this stylish, darkly comic crime comedy centering on a disarmingly charming hit man (Oldman) on a frantic quest for love, money, and bloody revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2005
Fragile

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Yasmine Murphy, Gemma Jones

2005
Van Helsing

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Shuler Hensley, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O'Connor, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The greatest monster hunter of them all has his work cut out for him as he tracks down three deadly foes in this action-adventure saga. Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a man who has dedicated his life to battling evil forces who exist outside the bounds of nature; Van Helsing's work has not Read More

5/7/04
Dos Tipos Duros

Actors: Antonio Resines, Elena Anaya, Rosa María Sardà, Jordi Vilches, Joan Crosas

2003
Talk to Her

Actors: Javier Camára, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Pedro Almodóvar follows his international success All About My Mother with an offbeat drama that explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances. Benigno (Javier Camára) is a male nurse whose apartment overlooks a dance studio run by Katerina (Geraldine Chaplin Read More

11/22/02
Sex and Lucia

Actors: Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya

Synopsis: Following up on his 1998 art-house hit Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Julio Medem spins this audacious film about flesh and forgetting. Lucia (Paz Vega) is a young Madrid waitress who is devastated to hear of the death of her old flame Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa). Hoping to flee her troubles, she seeks Read More

7/12/02
Rencor

Actors: Lolita, Jorge Perugorria, Elena Anaya, Mar Regueras, Geli Albaladejo

Synopsis: Spanish filmmaker Miguel Albaladejo writes and directs the drama Rencor, marking the film debut of Spanish pop star Lolita. The bold singer Chelo (Lolita) goes to a resort for the summer and ends up running into her ex-boyfriend Toni (Jorge Perugorria), a former criminal involved in a new Read More

2002
Don't Tempt Me

Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Damián Bechir, Fanny Ardant, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Two of Spain's biggest female stars headline this offbeat comedy about the battle of wills between good and evil. Heaven is not getting its fair share of business for the afterlife, so Lola (Victoria Abril), an angel who sings in a nightclub located beyond the pearly gates, is sent to Earth to Read More

11/28/01
El Arbol Del Penitente

Actors: Elena Anaya, Alfredo Landa, Javier Manrique, Idelfonso Tamayo

Synopsis: A man on the run from outlaws finds himself consoling a troubled priest in this broad comedy. Rufus (Javier Manrique) is deep in debt to a Cuban gangster named Ortega (Idefonso Tamayo), who has an uncertain temper and is tired of waiting to be repaid. Rufus decides that it's time to dip into his Read More

2000
El Invierno De Las Anjanas

Actors: Elena Anaya, Eduardo Noriega, Juan Diego, Elvira Mínguez, Ana Gracia

Synopsis: Somewhere in 19th-century Cantabria, Adelaida (Elena Anaya) meets and falls in love with Eusebio (Eduardo Noriega). Unfortunately, Eusebio is drafted for the Spanish-Cuban war. When news comes that he has died, Adelaida refuses to believe it, and her repressive family throws her into the local Read More

2000
Las Huellas Borradas

Actors: Federico Luppi, Mercedes Sampietro, Elena Anaya, Héctor Alterio, Sergi Calleja

Synopsis: A man tries to reconcile with his past before it disappears in the allegorical drama Las Huellas Borradas. Manuel (Federico Luppi) is a writer who journeys from Argentina, where he lives, to the Spanish village where he was born; word has reached him that the town will soon literally vanish, as Read More

1999
Black Tears

Actors: Ariadna Gil, Fele Martínez, Ana Risueno, Elena Anaya, Elvira Mínguez

Synopsis: Lagrimas Negras is a psychological drama about love, but also the story of a young man who leaves his normal existence behind to embark on a journey which ends in violence. The opening sequences show apprentice filmmaker Andres (Fele Martinez) editing a documentary whose images set the bleak tone Read More

1998
Finisterre (Donde Termina El Mundo)

Actors: Nancho Novo, Elena Anaya, Enrique Alcides, Geraldine Chaplin, Chete Lera

Synopsis: Brothers Berto (Nancho Novo) and Mario (Enrique Alcides) grew up on Spain's Galician coast where their hippie parents settled during the '60s. Before they were grown, their father abandoned them, a trauma from which Mario has not completely recovered. Berto leaves home first, and many years pass Read More

1998
Familia

Synopsis: In this Spanish language film, we are taken to the touching 55th birthday celebration of paterfamilias Santiago (Juan L. Galliardo). Among those attending are his wife Carmen (Amparo Munoz), his brother Ventura (Chete Lera) and Ventura's wife Sole (Agata Lys), and his children. As the film Read More

1996
África

Actors: Imanol Arias, Julie Carmen, Elena Anaya

1996