Elena Anaya is a popular Spanish actress who has been seen working actively on her career since the year 1975.

Quick Info
Full NameElena Anaya Gutiérrez
Date of BirthJuly 17, 1975
Birth PlacePalencia, Spain
Parent(s)Juan Jose Anaya
Nena Anaya
OccupationActress
Partner(s)/Spouse(s)Tina Afugu Cordero (2013-Present)
Children1
Net WorthUS $14 million

Personal Life and Relationship

Elena Anaya, whose real name is Elena Anaya Gutierrez was born o 17 July 1975 in Palencia, Castile and Leon, Spain as a daughter of mother, Nena Anaya, and father, Juan Jose Anaya. Her father worked as an industrial engineer where her mother is a housewife where she later owned a boarding house. She has two older siblings and she is the young one among her siblings.

Elena Anaya

Before, Anaya was in a relationship with director Beatriz Sanchis from the year 2008 where their photograph of kissing each other was published by magazine Cuore in August 2011. Later in 2013, they broke up, and then, in November 2016, it was stated that she was pregnant with her partner Tina Afugu Cordero who is a costume designer. Later, she gave birth to their son in February 2017.

 

Nationality and Physical Stats

Anaya holds a Spanish nationality and applies to the Spanish ethnicity. Currently, she is 45 years old with a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) and a weight of 54 kg. Elena Anaya has got body measurements of 36-25-35 inches and has dark brown hair with hazel eyes. As she was born on 17 July, her zodiac sign is Cancer.

 

Early Life and Education

As she used to keep her personal life private, she has not stated about her early life and about her education.

 

Social

Elena Anaya has an Instagram account with the tag name (@elenaanaya) where she has posted 203 posts and has 10.2k followers but didn’t follow anyone.

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Career

She started her acting career after she had been cast into the role of Amiga in the movie “Adios Naboelk” in 1995. After that, she was seen appearing as Africa in the movie “Africa” in the year 1996. in the following year, she was also cast into the role of Susy in the movie “Grandes Ocasiones” and then, in the same year, Elena Anaya was seen playing the role of Luna in the movie “Familia”.

In 1998, she was seen playing the role of Laura in the movie “Finisterre, Donde Termine el Mundo” and in that year, she was also seen appearing in the role of Alicia in the movie “Lagrimas Negras”. Later, she was cast into the role of Rosa in the movie “Las Huellas Borradas” in 1999. Likewise, Elena Anaya was seen as Sonsoles in the movie “El Arbol del penitente” in 2000. After that, she was also seen appearing as Adelaida in the movie “EI Invierno de las Anjanas” in the same year.

Further, in the year 2001, she was cast as Belen on a Spanish drama movie “Sex and Lucia” for which she had earned more attention from the people. After that, she was seen playing the role of Pili is a Mexican and Spanish co-production comedy movie “Don’t Temp Me” in 2002. In the same year, she was also seen appearing in a Mexican Spanish drama movie “The Blue Room” which was directed by Walter Doehner and produced by Argos Cine. Further, Elena Anaya was also seen playing the role of Esther in the movie “Rencor”. Likewise, she also appeared as Angela in a Spanish drama “Talk to Her” which was directed by Pedro Almodovar.

Further, she was seen playing the role of Aleera in an American period action horror movie “Van Helsing” which was written as well as directed by Stephen Sommers and the movie was released in 2004. In that year, she was also seen as Ana in the movie “Ana y Manuel” and then, in 2005, she was seen appearing as Helen Perez in a Spanish-British horror movie “Fragile” which was directed by Jaume Balaguero. After that, Elena Anaya was cast as Mimi on an English-language German action-comedy movie “Dead Fish” in the same year.

Likewise, she appeared as Angelica de Alquezar is a Spanish epic historical fiction war movie “Alatriste” in 2006, and then, she was also seen playing the role of Natalia in the movie “Stage Kiss” in that year. In 2007, Elena Anaya was cast into the role of Blanca in a drama movie “Savage Grace” and in the same year, she was also seen as Leonor in a Spanish romantic comedy movie “Miguel y William” and as Sofia Bunuel on an American comedy-drama movie “In the Land of Women”.

Elena Anaya

Further, she was seen appearing in several movies like “Hierro”, “Cairo Time”, “Room in Room in Rome”, “Point Black”, “The Skin I Live In”, “Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony”, “Pense Que Iba a Haber fiesta”, “Todos Estan Muertos”, “Lejos del mar”, “La memoria del agua”, “Swung”.

Later, in the year 2016,  Elena Anaya was cast into the role of Miss Pam in a Spanish adventure movie “Zip & Zap” which was directed by Oskar Santos. In that year, she was also seen appearing in an American biographical crime thriller movie “The Infiltrator” as Gloria Alcaino. In 2017, she was seen as Claudia Klein on an Argentine political drama movie “The Summit”. In that year, she was also seen as Isabel Maru and Doctor Poison is an American superhero movie “Wonder Woman”.

Awards

In her career, she had won Spanish Actor Union Award for Film: Supporting Performance from the movie “Lucia y el Sexo” in 2001. After that, in 2009, she had also won Sitges Film Festival Award for Best Actress from the movie “Hierro” and then, in 2011, she had also won Goya Awards for Best Actress from the movie “The Skin I Live In”.

 

Net Worth

The estimated net worth of Elena Anaya is $14 million. 

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