Irene Montalà is a Spanish actress born in the district of Nou Barris of Barcelona.
 She is the daughter of Mercè Montalà.
 She studied interpretation with Txiki Berrando and Manuel Lillo.
 She has also studied dancing and singing.
 Her mother tongues are Spanish and catalan, although she has also studied English and french.
 She started as an actress in series "Poblenou" (TV3).
 In 2001, she starred in the film "Fausto 5.0".
 In 2002, she participated in the series <nowiki>"Por Palabras"</nowiki> like Barbara which in the end it wasn't finished.
 In 2004 she appeared in an episodic way in the series "Cuéntame como pasó" (La 1), where she played the role of Mila.
Kaitlyn Ashley Maher (born January 10, 2004) is an American child singer and actress born in Michigan, and raised in Ashburn, Virginia.
 In 2008, at the age of 4, she appeared on the third season of "America's Got Talent" and for her audition sang "Somewhere Out There".
 She reached the top 10 of AGT season 3, and was the youngest person to ever reach that level.
 Maher has since appeared live at The Great Kids Expo in Chantilly, Virginia, on October 25, 2008, a live broadcast of the 2008 lighting of the National Christmas Tree, on December 4, 2008, attended by President George W. Bush and over 7,000 guests, and the 2009 Cherry Blossom Festival on April 11, 2009.
 On October 3, 2009, Maher was the opening act of The Addi and Cassi Hempel Fund benefit.
 Maher has appeared in a Harris Teeter commercial airing during December 2008.
 She was also selected by Compassion International as its first ever Child Ambassador, visited children in El Salvador with Compassion, got to meet her sponsored child, and shot a music video to her title song "You Were Meant to Be."
Yumiko Nogawa (野川由美子 , Nogawa Yumiko ) (born August 30, 1944) is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan.
 She has starred in several movies, notably "Gate of Flesh" (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki.
 Including "Story of a Prostitute" (1965) and "Carmen from Kawachi" (1966), these films are known as Nogawa's "Flesh Trilogy".
 Nogawa has appeared in numerous films in Japan, including director Nagisa Oshima's "The Pleasures of the Flesh" (1965) and "Zatoichi and the Fugitives" (1968), the eighteenth film in the "Zatoichi" series.
 She has also appeared in television series on Nippon Television, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV, and NHK.
Gina Pareño (born "Geraldine Acthley", October 20, 1949) is a Filipino actress born to a German-American father and a Filipina mother.
 She started her career in the 1960s as an extra in several films and then later on became one of the artists of Sampaguita Pictures.
 In 2006, she gained international recognition for her role in "Kubrador" ("The Bet Collector") wherein she won the Best Actress award at the Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema and at the Brussels International Independent Film Festival.
 Pareño also won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress as an outspoken and brash mother in the movie "Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo" and then later on received accolades for the same film and category in the FAMAS Awards as well as the Film Academy of the Philippines Awards in that same year.
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk is a Thai actress born on 27 May 1990.
 Apinya, also known as Saiparn is one of the top Thai teen stars – she is an actress, product endorser, TV host and CM presenter.
Song Hye-kyo (born November 22, 1981) is a South Korean actress.
 She gained popularity through her leading roles in television dramas "Autumn in My Heart" (2000), "All In" (2003), "Full House" (2004), "That Winter, the Wind Blows" (2013) and "Descendants of the Sun" (2016) which achieved pan-Asia success.
 She has also starred in films "Hwang Jin Yi" (2007), "The Grandmaster" (2013), "My Brilliant Life" (2014) and "The Queens" (2015).
Susi Wrenshaw is a British actress born in Sandwell in 1981.
 She trained at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre from 2000 to 2003 and began her acting career in the UK stage première of Jim Cartwright's play Wedded.
 She played Dawn Riley in The Bill opposite Lisa Maxwell of Loose Women fame.
 Susi went on to play PC Sharon Grant in Coronation Street in 2011 with Simon Gregson and Kate Ford who play on screen on/off couple Steve and Tracey.
 Susi first appeared in Emmerdale in 2011 as receptionist Jean Robinson and again in 2013 as a paramedic.
 Susi is Co-Artistic Director of Salford theatre company Happystorm Theatre, established in 2010, who have produced plays including The Crypt Project, a What's On Stage pick of 2011.
A Reason to Live (; lit.
 "Today") is a 2011 South Korean film written and directed by Lee Jeong-hyang.
 It stars Song Hye-kyo as a director who forgives a teenage boy for killing her fiancé.
 It premiered at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival, and was released in theaters on October 27, 2011.
 It received 131,194 admissions.
Barbara Goenaga Bilbao (born 20 July 1983) is a Spanish actress born in San Sebastián, Guipuzcoa, Spain.
 She is niece of the actress, writer and film director Aizpea Goenaga and daughter of the famous painter Juan Luis Goenaga.
Françoise Faucher O.C. is a Quebec actress born in Montmorency, France in 1929.
 She trained in drama in France under René Simon and Bernard Bimont before immigrating to Canada in the 1950s.
 She became a member of Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, participating in many plays.
 She wrote scripts for radio and TV programs, sparking off a productive career as a moderator.
 Although most of her work has been in live theatre, her credits include many French-Canadian TV series such as: "Les Mont-Joye, Les Bergers, La pension Velder," etc.
 Faucher was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.

Question: A Reason to Live stars a director played by an actress born in what year?
Answer: 1981