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PENéLOPE CRUZ

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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.
BORN April 28, 1974
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HEIGHT 5'1" (1.55 m)
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NATIONALITY Spain
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YEARS ACTIVE 1986 – Present
PENéLOPE CRUZ

🏆 AWARDS & ACCOLADES

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2010
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Lead Performance (Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen)

WINNER
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2015
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)

WINNER
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2015
BAFTA FILM AWARDS

Outstanding Cinematic Achievement (Late Night with Seth Meyers)

WINNER
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2008
CRITICS' CHOICE

Best Performance (The Graham Norton Show)

WINNER

👤 BIOGRAPHY

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.

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🗉 QUICK FACTS

  • Nick Name Penélope Cruz Sánchez
  • Born April 28, 1974
  • Height 5'1" (1.55 m)
  • Nationality Spain
  • Citizenship Spain
  • Education Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards.
  • Current Status Active (Recently in The Bride!, High & Low – John Galliano)
  • Years Active 1986 – Present
  • Occupation Actress
  • Family Background Private Family Background
  • Early Career Cruz made her television acting debut at age 16, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992).
  • Partner Private
  • Children 1
  • Social

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