Penélope Cruz
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-04-28
Place of Birth
Madrid, Spain
Penélope Cruz
Biography
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and three Goya Awards. Cruz made her acting debut on television 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 is known for her frequent collaborations 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 notable 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 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 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 late nun's mission.
Also Known For
All About My Mother
Apr 16, 1999
Volver
Mar 17, 2006
Live Flesh
Oct 10, 1997
The Hi-Lo Country
Dec 30, 1998
Nine
Dec 03, 2009
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Apr 18, 2001
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
May 15, 2011
Open Your Eyes
Dec 19, 1997
Vanilla Sky
Dec 14, 2001
Belle Époque
Dec 04, 1992
Bandidas
Jan 18, 2006
Blow
Apr 04, 2001
Jamon Jamon
Sep 03, 1992
Gothika
Nov 21, 2003
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Aug 15, 2008
Waking Up in Reno
Dec 13, 2002
All the Pretty Horses
Dec 11, 2000
Sahara
Apr 06, 2005
Masked and Anonymous
Jul 25, 2003
Broken Embraces
Mar 18, 2009
Elegy
Aug 08, 2008
The Good Night
Jan 25, 2007
Noel
Nov 12, 2004
Woman on Top
Sep 22, 2000
Fan-Fan the Tulip
Jun 20, 2003
A Matador's Mistress
Sep 06, 2008
Don't Tempt Me
Nov 30, 2001
Don't Move
Mar 12, 2004
Chromophobia
May 10, 2006
The Girl of Your Dreams
Nov 13, 1998
Head in the Clouds
Apr 29, 2004
Volaverunt
Oct 01, 1999
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Nov 20, 2011
G-Force
Jul 24, 2009
To Rome with Love
Apr 20, 2012
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
Nov 27, 1998
Talk of Angels
Oct 30, 1998
Ferrari
Dec 14, 2023
Penélope Cruz: Diva in the Mirror
Jul 17, 2022
The Cannibalistic Councillor
Feb 14, 2009
Twice Born
Sep 13, 2012
The Counselor
Oct 25, 2013
Brujas
Apr 26, 1996
I'm So Excited!
Mar 08, 2013
Todo es mentira
Oct 14, 1994
La Celestina
Nov 08, 1996
The Bride!
Mar 04, 2026
La ribelle
Aug 20, 1993
Alegre ma non troppo
May 26, 1994
Entre rojas
Apr 20, 1995
The Days of Abandonment
Don Juan
Apr 28, 1998
Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
Oct 15, 2011
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
Jul 01, 1997
ma ma
Sep 11, 2015
Grimsby
Feb 24, 2016
This Man, This Woman
High & Low – John Galliano
Mar 08, 2024
313
Feb 20, 2024
Zoolander 2
Feb 06, 2016
Live 8
Nov 07, 2005
Sex and the City 2
May 26, 2010
Hitting It Hard
May 21, 2002
The Making of All About My Mother
Jan 01, 2012
Making Parallel Mothers
Mar 16, 2022
The Making of Volver
Apr 03, 2007
Per amore, solo per amore
Oct 29, 1993
Everybody Knows
May 09, 2018
The Queen of Spain
Nov 25, 2016
Not Love, Just Frenzy
Nov 15, 1996
A Scent of Paradise
Aug 29, 1997
Loving Pablo
Oct 12, 2017
Murder on the Orient Express
Nov 03, 2017
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
Feb 11, 2014
The Butterfly Effect
Dec 20, 1995
The Greek Labyrinth
Jan 08, 1993
The 355
Jan 05, 2022
Pain and Glory
Mar 22, 2019
Wasp Network
Jan 29, 2020
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Sep 11, 2016
Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
May 16, 2012
Official Competition
Sep 04, 2021
Brunes et Blondes
Oct 06, 2010
On the Fringe
Oct 07, 2022
Yo soy uno entre cien mil
Sep 19, 2016
Parallel Mothers
Oct 08, 2021
L'immensità
Sep 15, 2022
Day Drinker
Deconstructing Almodóvar
Jan 30, 2007
Directed by Almodóvar
Jan 30, 2007
Viva Pedro: The Life & Times of Pedro Almodóvar
Jan 30, 2007
The Invite
Bunker
The Black Ball
Karl
Aug 29, 2025
Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood
Jan 01, 2007
On the Set of 'Gothika'
Mar 23, 2004
Pongamos que hablo de
May 24, 2020
60 Minutes
Sep 24, 1968
The Jay Leno Show
Sep 14, 2009
Framed
Nov 27, 1992
Los mundos de Yupi
Apr 18, 1988
Crónicas urbanas
Jan 08, 1991
Punk'd
Mar 17, 2003
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Jun 29, 2020
American Crime Story
Feb 02, 2016
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
Lo de Évole
Feb 02, 2020
Bambi
Jan 01, 1948
Dani&Flo con Lara Álvarez
Feb 27, 2017
Nature Is Speaking
Aug 12, 2015
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Lo + plus
Apr 04, 1995
Softly from Paris
Nov 08, 1986
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Late Xou con Marc Giró
Oct 09, 2023
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
El hormiguero
Sep 24, 2006
La Noche D
Jan 26, 2021
