Penélope Cruz

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Date of Birth: 1974-04-28 (age 52)
Nationality: Spain
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain

Mini Bio

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.

Backstage

Speaks three languages: Spanish, Italian and English. Despite common misconception, she can't speak French. She hired a dialect coach to help her in the French film Fanfan (2003) and learned her lines phonetically. She also needs the help of a translator when she is promoting a film on French television.
Was seven months pregnant with her son Leonardo when she completed filming on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) . Her younger sister Mónica Cruz was used as her body double during filming on account of her pregnancy.
Married long-term partner Javier Bardem at a friend's house in the Bahamas in a small ceremony with just family members present.
Learned Italian because she wanted her role in the movie Don't Move (2004) really badly. This paid off and she went onto win the Italian equivalent of the Academy Awards for Best Actress.
Second Spanish performer to win an Academy Award for acting. The first one was Javier Bardem .
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 1, 2011. She was awarded by Rob Marshall , accompanied by her husband Javier Bardem , and her Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) co-star Johnny Depp .
Has been in a relationship with Javier Bardem since they began filming Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) together in July 2007.
Good friends with ex-boyfriend Tom Cruise . She was one of the first people to visit his newborn baby daughter Suri.
Best friends with Gwyneth Paltrow , Goya Toledo , Salma Hayek and Zoe Saldaña .
She claims her role in Bigas Luna 's Jamon Jamon (1992) psychologically scarred her for life. She was a teenager when she was cast in the film which required her to do nudity and sex scenes.

Awards

Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards.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).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.

Marital status / Family

Penélope Cruz has been married to Spanish actor Javier Bardem since July 2010. They began dating in 2007 after co-starring in the film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. They have two children together: a son named Leo Encinas Cruz (born 2011) and a daughter named Luna Encinas Cruz (born 2013)

Movies

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