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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 Live Earth ... more |


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