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PENéLOPE CRUZ

Actress
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 1989 – Present
PENéLOPE CRUZ

🏆 AWARDS & ACCOLADES

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2022
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Actress

NOMINEE
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2010
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Supporting Actress

NOMINEE
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2009
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER
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2007
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Actress

NOMINEE
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2024
ACTOR AWARDS

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

NOMINEE
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2019
ACTOR AWARDS

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

NOMINEE
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2010
ACTOR AWARDS

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

NOMINEE
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2010
ACTOR AWARDS

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

NOMINEE
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2009
ACTOR AWARDS

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

NOMINEE
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2007
ACTOR AWARDS

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

NOMINEE
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2024
SATELLITE AWARDS

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama

NOMINEE
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2019
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

NOMINEE
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2010
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

NOMINEE
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2009
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

NOMINEE
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2007
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture u00e2u0080u0093 Drama

NOMINEE
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2009
FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

Best Supporting Female

WINNER
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2023
GOTHAM FILM AWARDS

Outstanding Supporting Performance

NOMINEE
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2026
ASTRA MIDSEASON MOVIE AWARDS

Best Supporting Actress

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 Penlope
  • 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 1989 – Present
  • Occupation Actress
  • Family Background Cruz has also modelled for Mango, Ralph Lauren and L'Oréal, and 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.
  • Early Career Cruz made her television acting debut at age 16, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992).
  • Partner Javier Bardem
  • Children 2
  • Social

🎬 FILMOGRAPHY