
Penélope Cruz
ActingAlso Known As
Penélope Cruz Sánchez
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.
Movies
(98 total)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Pilar Estravados

Vanilla Sky
as Sofia Serrano

Blow
as Mirtha Jung

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
as María Elena

Grimsby
as Rhonda George

Gothika
as Chloe Sava

Zoolander 2
as Valentina Valencia

To Rome with Love
as Anna

All About My Mother
as Rosa

G-Force
as Juarez the Guinea Pig (voice)

The Counselor
as Laura

Pain and Glory
as Jacinta

Volver
as Raimunda

Sex and the City 2
as Carmen García Carrión

Sahara
as Dr. Eva Rojas

Ferrari
as Laura Ferrari

Open Your Eyes
as Sofía

Bandidas
as Maria Alvarez

The 355
as Graciela Rivera
TV Shows
(29 total)
American Crime Story
as Donatella Versace

Punk'd
as Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest

The Oscars
as Self

The Oscars
as Self - Presenter

60 Minutes
as Self

El hormiguero
as Self - Guest

The Jay Leno Show
as Self

Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Prince Humperdinck / Princess Buttercup

Framed
as Lola Del Moreno

Softly from Paris
as Daphné / Javotte / Juliette

Nature Is Speaking
as Water

La Noche D
as Self - Guest

Los mundos de Yupi
as La bella durmiente (uncredited)






