
Acting
Community Rating
6.0
TMDB estimate
Born
April 28, 1974 (age 51)
Born in
Madrid, Spain
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards. Cruz made her television acting debut at age 16, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles included Belle Époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), Don Juan (1998), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). She collaborated with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar in Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021). For her role in Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Cruz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other Oscar-nominated roles are in Volver (2006), Nine(2009), and Parallel Mothers (2021). Other films include Vanilla Sky (2001), Blow (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), The Counselor (2013), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Everybody Knows (2018), Official Competition (2022), L'immensità (2022), and Ferrari (2023). For her role as Donatella Versace in the miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She is the only Spanish actress to have won an Academy Award and to have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2007, she won the David di Donatello for the leading role in Don't Move. Cruz has also modelled for Mango, Ralph Lauren, and L'Oréal, and has designed clothing for Mango with her younger sister, Mónica Cruz. She has been a house ambassador for Chanel since 2018. She volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent one week working with Mother Teresa, and donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund the now-deceased nun's mission. Description above from the Wikipedia article Penélope Cruz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Zoolander 2
Valentina Valencia
2016

The Bride!
Myrna Malloy
2026

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Angelica
2011

Murder on the Orient Express
Pilar Estravados
2017

Blow
Mirtha Jung
2001

Sahara
Dr. Eva Rojas
2005

Ferrari
Laura Ferrari
2023

Vanilla Sky
Sofia Serrano
2001

G-Force
Juarez the Guinea Pig (voice)
2009

Gothika
Chloe Sava
2003

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
María Elena
2008

Grimsby
Rhonda George
2016

The Counselor
Laura
2013

Sex and the City 2
Carmen García Carrión
2010

The 355
Graciela Rivera
2022

All About My Mother
Rosa
1999

Volver
Raimunda
2006

Nine
Carla
2009

Bandidas
Maria Alvarez
2006

Loving Pablo
Virginia Vallejo
2017