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Penélope
Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974, in Madrid), better known as
Penelope Cruz, is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated
Spanish actress. Originally a dancer, she soon moved into Spanish
television, and since then she has appeared in a string of films in
Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. She was a TV
presenter for the teen-oriented program La Quinta Marcha. She also
had early exposure in Série Rose, a French erotic TV serial in
which she played the role of a blind prostitute. Cruz's first major
films were Jamón, jamón and Belle Epoque, a film which won an
Academy Award for Foreign Language Film. In 1997, she starred as Sofía
Pangia, alongside Eduardo Noriega in Abre los ojos, directed by
Alejandro Amenábar, and in 2000 she appeared with Matt Damon in All
the Pretty Horses. In 1999, she appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo
sobre mi madre (All About My Mother), which won an Academy Award for
Foreign Language Film. In early 2001, she appeared in the film
Vanilla Sky, the Hollywood remake of Abre los ojos. She played the
same role, "Beaky-nose" in both films. Cruz co-starred
with her best friend, Salma Hayek in the 2006 film, Bandidas. She
won a Best Actress ensemble award at the Cannes Film Festival and
has been nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen
Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award. On 7 July 2007 Cruz presented at
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