**Nan Goldin** is a renowned photographer and visual artist, not primarily an actress in the traditional sense. Although she does not play roles, her work has a profound cinematic dimension.

Her most iconic work in this regard is *The Ballad of Sexual Dependency* (1986), originally a famous slide show with music, later reworked into a film. Through this and other short films and videos, Goldin offers a raw and intimate glimpse into her life and alternative communities, exploring themes such as love, addiction, gender identity, and the AIDS crisis.

Her style is candid, documentary, and autobiographical, often unfiltered. Recently, her life and activism were the subject of the Golden Lion-winning documentary *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), further cementing her influence in the audiovisual landscape.