Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya is a Spanish actress, but she has gained prominence even in Hollywood by associating herself with many American movies. Born on July 17, 1975, the actress comes from a middle-class family where her mother was a simple housewife and her father an engineer. Her film industry entry was in the year 1995, but it wasn’t till 2014 when director Stephen Sommers released an American fantasy action adventure film, ‘Van Helsing’, did she receive international recognition. It was a production by Universal Studios, which became that year’s highest grossing movie. She played the role of one of the youngest bride of Dracula.

In the West, Elena Anaya is considered to be a very seductive actress. She has been casted in erotic movies right from the beginning of her career. In the early days of her career, she appeared in a Spanish movie, 'Sex and Lucia', which had sexual content and she was casted opposite Spanish actor, Tristán Ulloa. In this movie, she did the maximum erotic scenes, and this film was notably her best movie. In her career, the majority of the roles she played were supporting, both in Spanish and American movies, but her talent was critically appreciated always. Thus, she was a very bankable actress in European cinema. Besides movies, she also appeared in video albums.

This Spanish actress was featured in “Sexy Back”, in June 2006, which Michael Haussman directed. This rock style song was sung by Justin Timberlake “Tearin’ up My Heart” remembering one of their big >> Read More... . The actress is well known for acting in movies like ‘Fragile,' which was a Spanish-British horror movie, and in a comedy movie, ‘Dead Fish.' Elena rose to fame by associating herself with a Spanish psychological thriller movie, 'The Skin I Live In' (2011), where she gave a tense performance as a captive woman, and she even won an award for the role. During international film festivals, she was able to garner a lot of awards.

In 2010, she stunned the audience by appearing in a lesbian comedy movie, ‘Rome In Rome’, where she played a role of a Spanish tourist in Rome and tried to develop a physical relationship with a younger Russian woman. Elena's other memorable American romantic movie was, 'In the Land of Women' (2007), where she played the role of a lover to actor Adam Broody. Her two upcoming movies are ‘The Infiltrator', which is an American crime drama movie, and ' Wonder Woman Click to look into! >> Read More... ', which is a American superhero movie. It is said that ‘Wonder Woman’ will be released in 2017, in 3D form, as well as IMAX 3D.

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Born in Palencia, Spain, Elena Anaya is a Spanish actress who has been in standing firmly in the film industry since the year 1995. Her mother, Elena (Nena) is a housewife, who eventually possessed a boarding house in Palencia and her father, Juan Jose Anaya Gomez, was an industrial engineer. She is the earliest out of the three children. Elena Anaya initially played a role in an unambiguously erotic drama called, “Sex and Lucia,” for which she earned international acknowledgment. She also had a minor role in, “Talk to Her” by Almodovar. In the year 2004, she was one of the brides to the Dracula in “Van Helsing”, for which she is best recognized in Hollywood. She was called as one of the European movies’, “Shooting Star” by European Film Production.

In Justin Timberlake’s music video featuring Timbaland, “Sexy Back”; Anaya was featured in the year 2006. For a few years, Anaya did supporting roles in films like, “Savage Grace”, Cairo Time Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, which was her moment of silence. Then, she came back with a rumble with her leading role in “Room in Rome” (“Habitacion en Roma” in Spanish; the movie was erotic-lesbian) in the year 2010 and then in Almodovar’s, “The Skin I Love In”, working alongside Antonio Banderas.

Her personal life is mostly about how a Spanish sensationalist magazine, “Cuore”, published her photographs which exhibited her private time, kissing the director, Beatriz Sanchis at a beach in Menorca. It was later revealed that they were in a committed relationship from the year 2008 to 2013. She has won a couple of awards namely, Spanish Actors Union for “Supporting Performance” in the year 2002, and Goya Awards for “Best Actress” in the year 2012. Other than that, she has been nominated for quite a few award categories.