Penélope Cruz

Acting · 5.4 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: April 28, 1974
From: 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.

Works

98 films

The Invite

20267.7

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

20116.6

The Bride!

20266.1

Vanilla Sky

20016.8

Murder on the Orient Express

20176.7

The 355

20226.0

The Counselor

20135.3

G-Force

20095.5

Blow

20017.4

Zoolander 2

20164.9

Sahara

20055.9

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

20086.8

Ferrari

20236.4

Grimsby

20165.9

Sex and the City 2

20106.0

Jamon Jamon

19926.2

Loving Pablo

20176.3

Pain and Glory

20197.4

Gothika

20036.2

La Bola Negra

2026

Open Your Eyes

19977.4

Parallel Mothers

20216.8

Bandidas

20066.0

Belle Époque

19926.7

All About My Mother

19997.6

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

20016.0

Live Flesh

19977.0

Official Competition

20216.6

Volver

20067.5

To Rome with Love

20125.8

L'immensità

20226.3

Everybody Knows

20186.5

Head in the Clouds

20045.9

Nine

20095.5

Wasp Network

20206.1

Paris Paramount

2027

Don't Move

20047.0

Broken Embraces

20097.1

Noel

20045.8

All the Pretty Horses

20005.7

Woman on Top

20006.1

ma ma

20156.2

I'm So Excited!

20135.7

Elegy

20086.3

A Scent of Paradise

19974.5

Live 8

20057.4

Bunker

2027

Masked and Anonymous

20035.2

Woody Allen: A Documentary

20116.9

Waking Up in Reno

20025.1

Don Juan

19984.5

Twice Born

20127.3

Chromophobia

20065.2

Volaverunt

19995.9

The Queen of Spain

20165.2

High & Low – John Galliano

20246.2

The Man with Rain in His Shoes

19984.9

Yo soy uno entre cien mil

20167.0

A Matador's Mistress

20085.8

The Hi-Lo Country

19986.0

On the Fringe

20226.6

The Good Night

20075.4

Day Drinker

2027

Fan-Fan the Tulip

20035.5

The Girl of Your Dreams

19986.5

Todo es mentira

19945.0

Don't Tempt Me

20015.6

Talk of Angels

19985.5

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

19976.1

Brunes et Blondes

2010

The Days of Abandonment

2026

Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas

20167.5

La ribelle

19934.8

On the Set of 'Gothika'

2004

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

20128.3

Women in Prison

19954.8

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

20145.7

La Celestina

19964.8

Per amore, solo per amore

19935.8

The Greek Labyrinth

19933.8

The Cannibalistic Councillor

20096.2

Making Parallel Mothers

2022

This Man, This Woman

2026

Hitting It Hard

20027.0

The Butterfly Effect

19956.5

Alegre ma non troppo

19945.1

Deconstructing Almodóvar

2007

Brujas

19964.8

The Making of All About My Mother

2012

Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar

2007

Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood

2007

Directed by Almodóvar

2007

Penélope Cruz: Diva in the Mirror

20226.5

Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame

2011

The Making of Volver

2007

Karl

2025

313

2024

Not Love, Just Frenzy

19965.8