Marleen Gorris (born 9 December 1948) is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work.
She wrote and directed the films A Question of Silence (1982), Broken Mirrors (1984), The Last Island (1991), and Antonia's Line (1995 - Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film), Mrs. Dalloway (1997 - based on the novel by Virginia Woolf) and The Luzhin Defence (2000 - originally a Nabokov novel).
Studied drama at the University of Amsterdam.
During a New Directors preview in New York for her movie _Stilte rond Christine M., De_ (1982), a handful of men confronted her with hostile or garbled questions in relation to her one-dimensional negative portrayal of men as a whole. As in the movie, the men's plan backfired as they encountered laughter from the women who attended.
Sister of Henk Gorris, a history teacher.
Member of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006.
With Antonia (1995) became the first woman to direct a movie that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
