Sólveig Anspach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sólveig Anspach

Icelandic film director and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1960

Place of Birth: Heimaey, Southern Region, Iceland

Date of Death: 07-Aug-2015

Profession: screenwriter, film director, documentarian

Nationality: France, Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sólveig Anspach (8 December 1960 – 7 August 2015) was an Icelandic-French film director and screenwriter.
Born to a German-Romanian father Gerhard Anspach and an Icelandic mother Högna Sigurðardóttir, she spent most of her life living and working in France.
After studying philosophy and clinical psychology in Paris, she enrolled in La Fémis and graduated with a diploma in directing in 1989.
Her film Stormy Weather was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
Anspach died of breast cancer on 7 August 2015 at the age of 54.