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Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz

Birthday: 1974-04-28 | Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2026
The Bride!

as    Myrna Malloy

2026
The Invite

as    Pina

2025
Pedro x Javis

as    Self

2025
Karl

as    Self

2024
2023
L'immensità

as    Clara

2023
Ferrari

as    Laura Ferrari

2022
On the Fringe

as    Azucena

2022
The 355

as    Graciela Rivera

2022
Official Competition

as    Lola Cuevas

2022
Making Parallel Mothers

as    Self

2022
Penélope Cruz: Diva in the Mirror

as    Self - Actress

2021
Parallel Mothers

as    Janis

2020
Wasp Network

as    Olga

2019
Pain and Glory

as    Jacinta

2019
Everybody Knows

as    Laura

2018
Loving Pablo

as    Virginia Vallejo

2017
The Queen of Spain

as    Macarena Granada

2016
Grimsby

as    Rhonda George

2016
2016
Zoolander 2

as    Valentina Valencia

2015
ma ma

as    Magda

2014
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

as    Self (archive footage)

2013
Twice Born

as    Gemma

2013
I'm So Excited!

as    Jessica

2013
The Counselor

as    Laura

2012
To Rome with Love

as    Anna

2012