Penélope Cruz
Acting
Born 1974-04-28
Madrid, Spain
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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.
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Filmography
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
Hot Ones
60 Minutes
Leute heute
El hormiguero
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Invite
American Crime Story
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Bambi
The Bride!
Punk'd
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
The Oscars
Vanilla Sky
Murder on the Orient Express
The Jay Leno Show
The 355
The Counselor
Ferrari
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Zoolander 2
Grimsby
Blow
G-Force
Lo + plus
Late Xou con Marc Giró
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Sahara
Sex and the City 2
Jamon Jamon
Pain and Glory
Softly from Paris
Loving Pablo
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
Gothika
Live Flesh
Open Your Eyes
Parallel Mothers
La Bola Negra
All About My Mother
Lo de Évole
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
La Noche D
Everybody Knows
Belle Époque
L'immensità
To Rome with Love
Bandidas
Wasp Network
Volver
Official Competition
Head in the Clouds
Noel
Nine
Don't Move
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