Penelope Cruz

Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress who performs in both Spanish and English-language films. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, three Goya Awards and a David di Donatello. Cruz made her acting debut on television at age 16, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón. Her subsequent roles include Belle Époque, Open Your Eyes, Don Juan, The Hi-Lo Country, The Girl of Your Dreams and Woman on Top. She has performed in seven films directed by Pedro Almodóvar: Live Flesh, All About My Mother, Volver, Broken Embraces, I'm So Excited!, Pain and Glory, and Parallel Mothers. She also produced several films she performed in, including Ma Ma and On the Fringe. For her role in Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Cruz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated for Academy Awards for Volver, Nine, and Parallel Mothers. Her other films include Vanilla Sky, Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Zoolander 2, Murder on the Orient Express, Everybody Knows, Official Competition, L'immensità, Ferrari, The Invite and La bola negra. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penélop...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)