Penelope Cruz

  • Name: Penelope Cruz
  • Date of Birth: April 28, 1974
  • Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Mini-bio: At the young age of 15, Penelope bested over 300 girls in a casting audition which led to several spanish TV shows. Eventually her career grew and she was making 3 or 4 films a year. She gained a lot ...( read more)of attention for working with renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (who would later be her ticket to international fame), and the same year she was the lead actress in the thriller/drama/mystery/sci-fi film Abre los ojos (1997), a huge hit in Spain that earned eight Goyas (Spanish Oscars). Her luck finally changed in 1998, when the movie-industry comedy Niña de tus ojos, La (1998) won her a Best Actress Goya. Cruz made a few more forays into English-language film, but her first big international hit was Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre (1999) (All About My Mother), in which she played an unchaste but well-meaning nun. As the film was showered with awards and accolades, Cruz suddenly found herself in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. Her next big project was Woman on Top (2000), an American comedy about a chef with bewitching culinary skills and a severe case of motion sickness. While in the US, she also signed up to star opposite Johnny Depp in the drug-trafficking drama Blow (2001) and opposite Matt Damon (her rumored paramour) in Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses (2000). Cruz says she's wary of being typecast as a beautiful young damsel, but it's hard to imagine disguising her wide-eyed charms and generous nature (she once donated an entire paycheck to Mother Teresa's children's sanctuary). Fortunately, with Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001) (a remake of Abre los ojos (1997)) and a John Madden collaboration looming in her future, Damsel Penelope isn't likely to disappear just yet.
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  • SeleneBlack
    SeleneBlack
    Pues es una gran actriz, si os da asco será envidia.
    She's a great actress so if u don't like her it must be u are jealous
    posted 12 days ago
  • MisSHollYW00D
    MisSHollYW00D
    q asco me daa xDD
    posted 27 days ago
  • PuertoRicanGirl14
    PuertoRicanGirl14
    omg im like ur biggest fan! u rock penelope cruz
    posted 93 days ago
  • jessemarkes
    jessemarkes
    MY POLL
    posted 98 days ago
  • karlitusboom
    karlitusboom
    Hola..! Q tl.?
    posted 125 days ago
  • sofiakhorsand
    sofiakhorsand
    Hi penelope! I am a very fan of you, and you are sooo beautiful!! i swear! Hope you read this ;)
    posted 135 days ago
  • jessemarkes
    jessemarkes
    hi
    posted 154 days ago
  • set4545
    set4545
    hi penelopa you are a very sexyyyyyyy
    posted 171 days ago
  • imyourman
    imyourman
    you hot i want u
    posted 173 days ago
  • TINKERBELLRULES98
    TINKERBELLRULES98
    hola cormeta to una bonita morena
    posted 189 days ago
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