Penélope Cruz
Born April 28, 1974 (Age: 51)
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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.
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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Filmography
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Untitled Nancy Meyers Film
2027
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Age: 53
The Bride!
2026
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as Myrna
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Age: 51
High & Low – John Galliano
2024
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as Self
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Age: 49
Ferrari
2023
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as Laura Ferrari
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Age: 49
On the Fringe
2022
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as Azucena
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Age: 48
L'immensità
2022
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as Clara
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Age: 48
Making Parallel Mothers
2022
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as Self
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Age: 47
The 355
2022
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as Graciela Rivera
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Age: 47
Parallel Mothers
2021
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as Janis
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Age: 47
Official Competition
2021
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as Lola Cuevas
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Age: 47
Wasp Network
2020
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as Olga
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Age: 45
Pain and Glory
2019
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as Jacinta
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Age: 44
Everybody Knows
2018
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as Laura
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Age: 44
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
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as Pilar Estravados
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Age: 43
Loving Pablo
2017
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as Virginia Vallejo
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Age: 43
The Queen of Spain
2016
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as Macarena Granada
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Age: 42
Grimsby
2016
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as Rhonda George
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Age: 41
Zoolander 2
2016
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as Valentina Valencia
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Age: 41
The Counselor
2013
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as Laura
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Age: 39
I'm So Excited!
2013
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as Jessica
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Age: 38
Twice Born
2012
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as Gemma
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Age: 38
To Rome with Love
2012
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as Anna
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Age: 37
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Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
2011
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 37
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011
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as Angelica
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Age: 37
Sex and the City 2
2010
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as Carmen García Carrión
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Age: 36
Nine
2009
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as Carla
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Age: 35
G-Force
2009
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as Juarez the Guinea Pig (voice)
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Age: 35
Broken Embraces
2009
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as Lena
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Age: 34
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008
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as María Elena
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Age: 34
Elegy
2008
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as Consuela Castillo
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Age: 34
Deconstructing Almodóvar
2007
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as Self
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Age: 32
Directed by Almodóvar
2007
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as Self
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Age: 32
The Good Night
2007
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as Anna / Melodia
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Age: 32
Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood
2007
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as Self
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Age: 32
Volver
2006
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as Raimunda
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Age: 31
Bandidas
2006
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as Maria Alvarez
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Age: 31
Sahara
2005
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as Dr. Eva Rojas
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Age: 30
On the Set of 'Gothika'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 29
Don't Move
2004
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as Italia
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Age: 29
Gothika
2003
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as Chloe Sava
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Age: 29
Waking Up in Reno
2002
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as Brenda
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Age: 28
Vanilla Sky
2001
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as Sofia Serrano
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Age: 27
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
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as Pelagia
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Age: 26
Blow
2001
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as Mirtha Jung
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Age: 26
All the Pretty Horses
2000
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as Alejandra
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Age: 26
Woman on Top
2000
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as Isabella Oliveira
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Age: 26
All About My Mother
1999
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as Rosa
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Age: 24
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
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as Josepha O'Neil
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Age: 24
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
1998
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as Louise
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Age: 24
Open Your Eyes
1997
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as Sofía
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Age: 23
Live Flesh
1997
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as Isabel Plaza Caballero
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Age: 23
Todo es mentira
1994
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as Lucía
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Age: 20