Chiara D'Anna

The Italian actress, director, writer and academic Chiara D'Anna began her film career in Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and has worked with him repeatedly since. Born near Turin, Italy, she studied geology at the University of Turin, where she also joined a drama school, and later trained in physical theater in Italy, Poland and the UK. In The Duke of Burgundy she played the co-lead alongside Sidse Babett Knudsen, a performance that brought her to the attention of critics, and at the Toronto International Film Festival she was nominated as one of 13 actors to watch. Her other screen credits include Native (2016), The Rook and Stars and Bones, which earned her the Inspiring Woman in A Film award at the Los Angeles Film Awards in 2017. She founded Panta Rei Theatre in 2010, and her directing work includes adaptations of The Master and Margarita and Salome.