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Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz

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Born April 28, 1974, 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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (40)
  • 2025Karl — Self
  • Pedro x Javis — Self
  • 2024High & Low – John Galliano — Self
  • Late Xou con Marc Giró — Self - Guest
  • 2022Making Parallel Mothers — Self
  • 2022Penélope Cruz: Diva in the Mirror — Self - Actress
  • La Noche D — Self - Guest
  • Pongamos que hablo de — Self
  • La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català — Self (archive footage)
  • Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez — Self - Interviewee
  • 2016Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas — Self
  • Hot Ones — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • 2014Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' — Self (archive footage)
  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
  • 2012Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother — Self
  • 2012The Making of All About My Mother — Self
  • 2011Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame — Self (archive footage)
  • 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
  • 2010Brunes et Blondes — Self
  • The Jay Leno Show — Self
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
  • 2007Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood — Self
  • 2007Deconstructing Almodóvar — Self
  • 2007Directed by Almodóvar — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007The Making of Volver — Self
  • 2007Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar — Self
  • El hormiguero — Self - Guest
  • 2005Live 8 — Self
  • 2004On the Set of 'Gothika' — Self
  • Punk'd — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2002Hitting It Hard — Self
  • Leute heute — Self
  • Lo + plus — Self - Guest
  • 60 Minutes — Self
  • The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter
  • Bambi — Self
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