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Studied Drama at the University of Amsterdam, has an MA in Drama from the University of Birmingham, England.
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.
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