Born as Irene[REF] on July 31, 1990 in Bilbao, Spain to a Catalan psychologist and a Galician teacher, Waddington adopted her stage name[REF] at sixteen, while assisting director of photography Kike López (Sótano, Ander) [REF].
In 2014, with the help of Mexican executive producer Yadira Ávalos, Waddington took a year off advertising agency work to write and direct a short movie.