Elena Anaya

Personal context

Summary

Elena Anaya is a Spanish actor known for roles in Sex and Lucía, The Skin I Live In, and Wonder Woman. Her work ranges from intimate dramas to thrillers, often featuring women facing personal adversity or external pressure. She has spoken against unequal pay for comparable acting roles and supported women’s right to report harassment and violence, drawing on her own experience of refusing a director’s demand for nudity; she also joined a Greenpeace Arctic expedition and took part in a UNHCR event supporting refugee work. She has kept her family life private and has said she does not want to discuss her sexual orientation; no public partisan campaigning is on record.