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Penélope Cruz

Profession
Acting
Born
April 28, 1974 · Madrid, Spain

Biography

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards. Cruz made her television acting debut at age 16, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles included Belle Époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), Don Juan (1998), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). She collaborated with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar in Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021). For her role in Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Cruz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other Oscar-nominated roles are in Volver (2006), Nine(2009), and Parallel Mothers (2021). Other films include Vanilla Sky (2001), Blow (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), The Counselor (2013), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Everybody Knows (2018), Official Competition (2022), L'immensità (2022), and Ferrari (2023). For her role as Donatella Versace in the miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She is the only Spanish actress to have won an Academy Award and to have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2007, she won the David di Donatello for the leading role in Don't Move. Cruz has also modelled for Mango, Ralph Lauren, and L'Oréal, and has designed clothing for Mango with her younger sister, Mónica Cruz. She has been a house ambassador for Chanel since 2018. She volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent one week working with Mother Teresa, and donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund the now-deceased nun's mission. Description above from the Wikipedia article Penélope Cruz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides poster
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Film · 2011 · ★ 6.6
Murder on the Orient Express poster
Murder on the Orient Express
Film · 2017 · ★ 6.7
Vanilla Sky poster
Vanilla Sky
Film · 2001 · ★ 6.8
Blow poster
Blow
Film · 2001 · ★ 7.4
Vicky Cristina Barcelona poster
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Film · 2008 · ★ 6.8
Gothika poster
Gothika
Film · 2003 · ★ 6.2
Grimsby poster
Grimsby
Film · 2016 · ★ 6.0
Zoolander 2 poster
Zoolander 2
Film · 2016 · ★ 4.9
To Rome with Love poster
To Rome with Love
Film · 2012 · ★ 5.8
All About My Mother poster
All About My Mother
Film · 1999 · ★ 7.6
G-Force poster
G-Force
Film · 2009 · ★ 5.5
The Counselor poster
The Counselor
Film · 2013 · ★ 5.3

Filmography