Biografía

Youngest Spanish actress to win a Goya Award at only 12 years old for her performance in El laberinto del fauno (2006).

Was chosen among 1,000 girls for the role of Ofelia for "Pan's Labyrinth" (El laberinto del fauno (2006)).

She speaks Spanish, Catalan, and English.

Before Ivana was cast, the producers of "The Shannara Chronicles" saw over 400 actors for the role of Eretria.

While she is fully dedicated to her acting career, she is also undertaking Law studies.

It's really rare to get to play such a powerful, resourceful female. In my case, obviously I just sort of ... I'm leaving my teenage years. I'm twenty-one at the moment, so most of what I'd done before were, obviously, kid roles. [Shannara Chronicles] was the most adult thing I'd done ever since. It was very empowering and very, very exciting to play this role that is so energetic, so dynamic, so cool.

When other kids were playing volleyball or basketball after school, I was shooting movies. It was my own personal after school activity that eventually became a job. I was very independent growing up, as I'm an only child. But sometimes it was hard at school. When I would leave for an extended time to work, upon returning social groups would have already been formed. But, in my heart, I was doing what I loved, so it was never traumatic.

[New Zealand] was a very calm and very positive atmosphere. Most of us weren't from New Zealand. We were from Spain, England, Australia, the States, so we all lived in the same hotel, which made us bond inevitably.

In real life, couples split, they have issues, there's trust issues, but when there is love and passion, you can work things through.

Whenever I was on a horse, I'd be super excited and super stoked the day before to do that. I would also say, because we were on a diet and we had to do our exercise and eat proper foods and everything, but we had this one cheat day every week. That day we could eat whatever we wanted to, so I would be very, very happy that day. I was always looking forward to that.