Penélope Cruz
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
127
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-04-28 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Madrid, Spain
Penélope Cruz
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.
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
Bambi
American Crime Story
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
El hormiguero
60 Minutes
Leute heute
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Bride!
The Oscars
The Oscars
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Jay Leno Show
Belle Époque
Punk'd
Directed by Almodóvar
Murder on the Orient Express
Elegy
Karl
Head in the Clouds
Blow
Live 8
Broken Embraces
Vanilla Sky
ma ma
Official Competition
Don Juan
The Good Night
Volaverunt
Softly from Paris
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
L'immensità
Brujas
Deconstructing Almodóvar
Chromophobia
The Counselor
A Scent of Paradise
Fan-Fan the Tulip
La Noche D
Grimsby
Noel
Todo es mentira
Ferrari
Sex and the City 2
Zoolander 2
Sahara
A Matador's Mistress
Lo de Évole
Lo + plus
Gothika
The Invite
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Masked and Anonymous
Talk of Angels
The 355
G-Force
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Late Xou con Marc Giró
Don't Move
Woman on Top
Jamon Jamon
Volver
Bandidas
313
Pain and Glory
All About My Mother
Loving Pablo
Open Your Eyes
Bunker
Live Flesh
Nine
To Rome with Love
All the Pretty Horses
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Nature Is Speaking
Everybody Knows
Wasp Network
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
On the Set of 'Gothika'
Twice Born
The Hi-Lo Country
Crónicas urbanas
Parallel Mothers
Don't Tempt Me
The Days of Abandonment
Pedro x Javis
The Girl of Your Dreams
I'm So Excited!
The Queen of Spain
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Waking Up in Reno
The Butterfly Effect
Brunes et Blondes
Hitting It Hard
Framed
High & Low – John Galliano
La Celestina
Untitled Nancy Meyers Film
Pongamos que hablo de
This Man, This Woman
On the Fringe
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
Day Drinker
The Black Ball
La ribelle
Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
The Greek Labyrinth
Penélope Cruz: Diva in the Mirror
The Making of All About My Mother
Per amore, solo per amore
The Cannibalistic Councillor
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood
Los mundos de Yupi
Alegre ma non troppo
Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
Entre rojas
Making Parallel Mothers
The Making of Volver
Not Love, Just Frenzy
Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
Yo soy uno entre cien mil
