diff --git a/source/blender/imbuf/opencolorio/intern/libocio/libocio_colorspace.cc b/source/blender/imbuf/opencolorio/intern/libocio/libocio_colorspace.cc
index 10f0c7b5b34..e5eae8d6aa2 100644
--- a/source/blender/imbuf/opencolorio/intern/libocio/libocio_colorspace.cc
+++ b/source/blender/imbuf/opencolorio/intern/libocio/libocio_colorspace.cc
@@ -185,6 +185,14 @@ LibOCIOColorSpace::LibOCIOColorSpace(const int index,
       break;
     }
   }
+
+  /* Special case that we can not handle as an alias, because it's a role too. */
+  if (interop_id_.is_empty()) {
+    const char *data_name = ocio_config->getRoleColorSpace(OCIO_NAMESPACE::ROLE_DATA);
+    if (data_name && STREQ(ocio_color_space->getName(), data_name)) {
+      interop_id_ = "data";
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 bool LibOCIOColorSpace::is_scene_linear() const