Álex de la Iglesia (born December 4, 1965) is a Spanish Basque film director.

Most of De La Iglesia's films reached cult status thanks to their weird sense of humour.

Biography

Álex de la Iglesia was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1965. He is a philosophy graduate from the University of Deusto who ended up working in the comic book field at a young age. He had a brief stint in television before finding work as production designer on Pablo Berger's 'Mamá'. This little seen short film focuses on a family forced to live in a basement after a nuclear war and features a little boy who wears a Batman costume.