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Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards.
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entertainment · Spanish actress (born 1974) · television presenter · film actor · television actor · presenter · voice actor · photographer · film director · actor · also Penélope Cruz, Penélope Cruz Sánchez, Penelope Cruz Sanchez, Cruz
Born 28 April 1974 · Q39666
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2026· 6 entries
Public attention spiked: 25,135 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 7,976, with 1 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 37,972 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 7,976, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 25,834 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 7,976, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 92,628 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.6× the usual 7,976, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Moved images per MOS:IMAGELOC and MOS:PORTRAIT. Removed blurry image.
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For her first big screen appearance after Ferrari, Cruz co-starred in the comedy-drama The Invite, playing a psychotherapist and sexologist
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2025· 1 entry
Cruz received the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Icon Award "for an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: From Penélope Cruz to Teyana Taylor: the season’s most overlooked movie performances
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: L’immensità review – Penélope Cruz stars in turbulent family drama set in 70s Rome
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Cruz became a brand ambassador for Emirates appearing in advertisements for the airline, as well as Geox
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz is a deadpan dream in wicked film-world satire
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The Guardian: Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz on fire in delicious movie industry satire
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Cruz acted in Emanuele Crialese's Italian drama film L'immensità and Juan Diego Botto's Spanish thriller On the Fringe the later of which she also served as a producer
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2021· 2 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Parallel Mothers (2021).
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Cruz starred alongside Antonio Banderas in Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn's film Official Competition and reunited with Almodóvar for the film Parallel Mothers, in which she played Janis, a professional photographer entang
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (2019).
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2018· 4 entries
Awarded César Award (2018).
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Awarded Honorary César (2018).
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Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2018).
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Cruz made her television debut by co-starring in the role of Donatella Versace in the second season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story entitled The Assassination of Gianni Versace
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2017· 2 entries
That the philosophy or religion she feels closest to is Buddhism
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Starring Cruz in the role of Virginia Vallejo, and her husband, Javier Bardem, in the role of Pablo Escobar
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2016· 1 entry
Cruz rejoined Fernando Trueba on his Spanish-language period pic The Queen of Spain, a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama The Girl of Your Dreams
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2015· 1 entry
Cruz co-produced and starred in the Spanish drama film Ma Ma, directed by Julio Medem
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2013· 1 entry
Cruz appeared in Ridley Scott's The Counselor, featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, and husband Javier Bardem
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2012· 2 entries
And 2018, she posed for ads supporting PETA's anti-fur campaign
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Cruz appeared in the first ever Nintendo commercial to promote New Super Mario Bros
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2011· 1 entry
The Telegraph reported the most sought after body parts of the rich and famous revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture of the perfect woman
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2010· 2 entries
Cruz was a guest editor for the French Vogue magazine, focusing on larger-size models in a provocative photo shoot
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Was Sex and the City 2, the sequel to the 2008 film, in which she appeared as a banker in a cameo role
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2009).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2009).
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Awarded Gaudí a la millor actriu secundària for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2009).
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Appeared in the film Broken Embraces as Lena
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).
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Cruz starred alongside Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the Philip Roth story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo
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2007· 5 entries
After reuniting for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
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Listed it at 24 on its list of "Biggest Box-Office Turkeys of All Time"
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Cruz and her sister designed their second collection for Mango in 2007.
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Won the David di Donatello for the leading role in Don't Move
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Cruz appeared in the lead female role in Manolete, a biopic of bullfighter Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, playing Antoñita "Lupe" Sino
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2006· 7 entries
Awarded Goya Award for Best Actress for Volver (2006).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for Volver (2006).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Volver (2006).
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Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2006).
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Cruz became a spokesmodel for French cosmetics company L'Oréal to promote products such as the L'Oréal Paris hair dye Natural Match and L'Oreal mascara products
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Cruz received favourable reviews for her performance as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula, in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver
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Received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Volver, and in 2021 the Venice International Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Parallel Mothers
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2005· 1 entry
Cruz appeared in Chromophobia, screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and released the following year
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress for Don't Move (2004).
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Cruz appeared in the Christmas film Noel as Nina, the girlfriend of Paul Walker's character and as Mia in the 1930s set romantic drama Head in the Clouds, set in the 1930s
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2003· 1 entry
Was not well received, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian commenting that Cruz "deserves a special Cannes Razzie for a performance of purest teak"
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2002· 1 entry
Had a minor role in Waking Up in Reno
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2001· 2 entries
Was Captain Corelli's Mandolin, film adaption of the novel of the same name
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Also appeared in Don't Tempt Me, playing Carmen Ramos
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2000· 2 entries
Played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel All the Pretty Horses
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Appeared in Woman on Top in the lead female role as Isabelle, a world-class chef who suffered from motion sickness since birth, her first American lead role
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1999· 4 entries
Awarded Goya Awards (1999).
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Cruz worked with Almodóvar again in All About My Mother, playing Sister María Rosa Sanz, a pregnant nun with AIDS
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Cruz commented that "it was a great part, but
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Katrina Bayonas, Cruz's agent, commented, "She was absolutely magic [at the audition]
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded Goya Award for Best Actress for The Girl of Your Dreams (1998).
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Cruz appeared in her first American film as Billy Crudup's consolation-prize Mexican girlfriend in Stephen Frears' western film The Hi-Lo Country
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Cruz appeared in Don Juan and the Spanish period drama The Girl of Your Dreams
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1997· 2 entries
Cruz appeared in the Spanish comedy film Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
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Was the Amenabar-directed Spanish sci-fi drama, "Abre Los Ojos"/ Open Your Eyes
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1991· 1 entry
Cruz made her feature film debut as the lead female role in the comedy drama art house film Jamón, jamón
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1989· 2 entries
15-year-old Cruz made her acting debut in a music video for the Spanish pop group Mecano's song "La Fuerza del Destino"
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At the age of fifteen, Cruz won an audition at a talent agency at which more than 300 other girls had applied
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1974· 1 entry
Born 1974-04-28.
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