Introduction
Ariadna Gil Giner ([əˈɾjaðnə ʒil ʒiˈne]; born 23 January 1969) is a Spanish actress. She is known for her expressive acting in films such as Belle Époque or Lágrimas Negras.
Career
Film director Bigas Luna discovered her for the 1986 movieLola. After 4 films primarily in Catalan, though also with the presence of Spanish and French, she took part in a movie exclusively in Spanish in 1991, Emilio Martínez Lázaro's Amo tu cama rica 1991, and has gone on to play in a myriad of films and series in Catalan, Spanish, French and English, among other languages.
Between 1993 and 2007, she performed in more than thirty films, including Libertarias, directed byVicente Aranda; Pan's Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro; and Soldados de Salamina, directed by her former husband David Trueba, with whom she has two children, Violeta Rodriguez (b. 1997) and Leo Trueba. She has been in a relationship with American actor Viggo Mortensen since 2009.
Awards
- 1992: Premio Ondas a la mejor actriz, "Amo tu cama rica"
- 1992: Premio del Festival de Peñíscola a la mejor actriz, "Amo tu cama rica"
- 1993: Premio Goya a la mejor actriz, "Belle Époque"
- 1993: Fotogramas de plata, "Belle Époque"