Irene Escolar(I)
- Actress
- Producer
Irene Escolar is a Spanish actress, she received the Goya Award and the Irizar Award in San Sebastián International Film Festival for her critically acclaimed role of June in "An Autumn without Berlin". She is fluent in Spanish, English and French. Her professional life includes 23 films and 32 theatre plays. She is also very well known for her theatre career.
In 2019 she was picked to play the leading role in Movistar +'s first international series, Dime Quién Soy and was invited to be member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She is the creator and executive producer, alongside Bárbara Lennie, of Escenario 0 for HBO Europe, a project that mixes different disciplines to create an exceptional fusion between the performing and audiovisual arts.
In 2021 she shot "Official Competition" directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn alongside Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas and "You have to come and see it" directed by Jonás Trueba, film that won the Special Jury Award in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Un 2022 she was part of "The girls are all right" first film of Itsaso Arana and premiered the show "Finlandia" written and directed by the prestigious French director Pascal Rambert.
Her latest works are the TV show "Past Lies" for Disney + directed by Clara Roquet where she plays a leading role and the film "Ariel" directed by Lois Patiño.