Godeliv Van den Brandt

Godeliv Van den Brandt is a trilingual and multi-cultured actress. Born in Kasongo (Democratic Republic of Congo), she's the daughter of a Congolese mother and a Belgian father, Godeliv and family moved to Spain when she was 5. After her first acting class with Susan Batson in New York, Godeliv decided to take her talent for acting seriously and a year after committing to acting, she made her film debut with the Spanish awarded feature film "Traces of Sandalwood", directed by Maria Ripoll (2014). The film won the "Best Film" award at the Gaudi Awards (2015) as well as the "Audience Award" at both Montreal Film Festival (2014) and Cinquest Film Festival in San Jose (2015) among other awards. "Project Lazarus" (2015) has been Godeliv's latest work, a film wrote and directed by Mateo Gil, co-writer of Alejandro Amenabar's Oscar-winner "The Sea Inside" and director of Sam Shepard-starred "Blackthorn", in which she shares the screen with Tom Hugues, Oona Chaplin, Charlotte Le Bon and Bar