Penélope Cruz
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PERSONAL DATA OF PENÉLOPE CRUZ
Age: 46 years old
Height: 168 cm
Born in: Madrid, Spain
Born on: 04/28/1974
Spouse: Javier Bardem (s. 2010)
Sons: Luna Encinas Cruz, Leonardo Encinas Cruz
BIOGRAPHY OF PENÉLOPE CRUZ
Penélope Cruz Sánchez, known only as Penélope Cruz, was born on April 28, 1974 in Alcobendas, in the province of Madrid. Since childhood she has concentrated on dance, in particular classical dance, studying at the National Conservatory of Spain, defining it as fundamental for her career as an actress. At the same time, however, she is passionate about cinema, above all thanks to the vision of Tie me up! (1990) by Pedro Almodóvar, and also starts attending the school of Cristina Rota. Despite dreaming of a career in film, her first teenage assignments are modeling at the tender age of fifteen, obtained thanks to a strong determination and a bit of stubbornness in convincing the agent that he was old enough for the fashion world. After only a few years, he manages to land a small role in an episode of the French television series The classics of eroticism (1991), where she appears completely naked. Although in 1999 she will comment that at the time she was not yet ready for nudity, Cruz has always recognized that the small part and its attractiveness, in addition to launching it as a sex symbol, allowed her to take the first steps towards the cinema.
In 1991, in fact, he is already in front of the camera of Bigas Luna in the starring role in Ham ham with Javier Bardem. This first performance earned her critical acclaim and the Goya Prize nomination – the highest Spanish film award – for Best Actress. The second job, Belle Époque (1992), is a dramatic comedy directed by Fernando Trueba, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, in which the Spanish actress plays the young and inexperienced Luz. In this way she shows all her versatility and the ability to move effortlessly from a more sensual role to a more innocent one. Cruz soon throws herself beyond Hispanic borders, but she is not quite ready for Hollywood yet, and is moving towards a closer land, Italy. His first film in the Bel Paese is The rebel (1993) by Aurelio Grimaldi as the protagonist of Enza, a Sicilian teenager. The Italian career of the young Penélope does not stop here, but continues undaunted until she reaches the set of For love, just for love (1993) by Giovanni Veronesi like the Virgin Mary.
In the meantime, however, Cruz continues to pursue her commitment to Spanish cinema and in a short time reaches the major directors of her homeland, who definitively consecrate her as a diva. 1997 is, in fact, a propitious year for the young actress, as she is at the cinema both with Tremulous meat just of Pedro Almodóvar that in Open your eyes of Alejandro Amenábar like Sofia, a role she will play later in the Hollywood remake Vanilla Sky (2001). In this period, she actually moved to New York to deepen her dance studies and learn the English language. In 1998 he appears in his first American film, Hi-Lo Country (1998), with which he begins to make himself known in the States. The actress will reveal later that during filming she still had great difficulty understanding the language, but despite the film being unsuccessful at the box office, it earned her an ALMA Award nomination. Almodóvar writing once again for the part of an HIV positive nun in All about my mother (1999), but also Bigas Luna returns to work with her in Volavérunt (1999). It was 2000 when he received his first leading role in an American film, the comedy For enchantment or for delight of Fina Torres, which earned it critical acclaim. It is the following year, however, that the turning point arrives, when she acts as the wife of Johnny Depp in the cult movie Blow(2001), a film not fully appreciated by critics, but which was a box office success.
From this moment on, Cruz will work on two fronts, the American one, which delivers works like Captain Corelli’s mandolin (2001) of John Madden and horror Gothika (2003) with Halle Berry, and the European one, among which stand out No news from God (2001) and The golden tulip (2003). He also works in Italy together with Sergio Castellitto in his Do not move (2004), for which the actress learns Italian and is awarded a David di Donatello. In 2005 he took part with Matthew McConaughey is Steve Zahn to the Hispano-American flop Sahara, defined by critics as one of the worst interpretations of Cruz, who does not let herself be intimidated and in the same year recovers with Chromophobia (2005). After this not so fortunate parenthesis, his career undergoes a dizzying surge, starting with the western Bandidas (2006) with Salma Hayek to the third direction under Almodóvar, Volver (2006), which earned her the Prix d’interprétation féminine at Cannes and, among the many nominations, also one for the Oscars and Golden Globes. They follow The Good Night (2007) with Martin Freeman, Lessons of love (2008) with Ben Kingsley until another great success, that of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) of Woody Allen, for which she wins the prizes she was previously denied, including the coveted golden statuette. During the filming of the film he deepens his acquaintance with his colleague Javier Bardem – with whom he had had the opportunity to act several times – which will lead to a marriage in 2010.
As he prepares to work on his fourth collaboration with Almodóvar, The broken hugs (2009), is cast by Rob Marshall for Nine (2009), sentimental musical with dramatic tones with Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cottilard, Nicole Kidman and Italian stars of the caliber of Sophia Loren; thus he won his third Oscar nomination. Also under the direction of Marshall, Cruz receives a role in the most important blockbuster of her current career, Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides (2011), fourth chapter of the saga with which he returns to work side by side with Depp. In the same year she received the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, setting a real record for being the first Spanish actress to receive it. Back to speaking Italian for Allen in To Rome with Love (2012) as the prostitute who seduces Alessandro Tiberi, but in Italy there also remains to act again with Castellitto in Came to the world (2012), a dramatic film that sees her as the protagonist together with Emile Hirsch.
After affirming her acting skills and confirming her eclecticism, Cruz does not find any obstacles either in language or with genres and is measured with the thriller of Ridley Scott The Counselor – The attorney (2013), the Spanish drama of But but – Everything will be fine of Julio Médem and the zany humor of Ben Stiller in Zoolander 2 (2016). Still on set with Depp and other great movie stars in the remake Murder on the Orient Express (2017) of Kenneth Branagh, which is followed by a new film in which she stars alongside her husband Javier in Escobar – The charm of evil (2017). In 2018, after a 26-year hiatus from his last appearance, he returns to the small screen with the second season of American Crime Story in the role of the stylist Donatella Versace.
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