- During a New Directors preview in New York for her movie A Question of Silence (1982), a handful of men questioned her one-dimensional negative portrayal of men as a whole. As in the movie, they encountered laughter from the women who attended.
- With Antonia's Line (1995) became the first woman to direct a movie that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
- Studied Drama at the University of Amsterdam, has an MA in Drama from the University of Birmingham, England.
- Member of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006.
- Sister of Henk Gorris, a history teacher.
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