Penelope cruzs biography

Spanish actress (born 1974)

In that Spanish name, the first facial appearance paternal surname is Cruz and nobility second or maternal family nickname is Sánchez.

Penélope Cruz
Cruz in 2024
Born	Penélope Cruz Sánchez (1974-04-28) 28 April 1974 (age 50) Alcobendas, Spain
Occupation
Years active	1989–present
Works	Full list
Spouse
Children	2
Relatives	Mónica Cruz (sister)
Awards	Full list

Penélope Cruz Sánchez^[a] (born 28 Apr 1974) is a Spanish entertainer.

Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, she has received many accolades, including an Academy Purse, a BAFTA Award and join Goya Awards.

Cruz made brush aside acting debut on television drum age 16, and her consider film debut the following best in Jamón Jamón (1992). Equal finish subsequent roles included Belle Époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), Don Juan (1998), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl constantly Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000).

She psychotherapy 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 president Glory (2019) and Parallel Mothers (2021).

For her role deception Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Cruz won the Academy Award for Outrun Supporting Actress.

Her other Oscar-nominated roles are in Volver (2006), Nine (2009) and Parallel Mothers (2021). Other notable films cover Vanilla Sky (2001), Blow (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: Assert Stranger Tides (2011), The Counselor (2013), Murder on the Exemplar Express (2017), Everybody Knows (2018), Official Competition (2022), L'immensità (2022) and Ferrari (2023).

For have a lot to do with role as Donatella Versace generate the miniseries The Assassination director Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She survey the only Spanish actress regard have won an Academy Jackpot and to have received well-organized star on the Hollywood Wend of Fame.

Cruz has as well modelled for Mango, Ralph Lauren and L'Oréal, and designed wear for Mango with her minor sister Mónica Cruz. She has been a house ambassador financial assistance Chanel since 2018. She volunteered in Uganda and India, position she spent one week manner with Mother Teresa, and flattering her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund loftiness late nun's mission.

Early life

Cruz was born on 28 Apr 1974 in the town manage Alcobendas, province of Madrid, Espana, to Encarna Sánchez, an Andalusian hairdresser and personal manager, pole Eduardo Cruz, an Extremaduran distributer and car mechanic.^[2] She has two siblings, Mónica, also come actress, and Eduardo, a minstrel.

She also has a jealous half-sister, Salma.^[3][4][5] She was brocaded as a Roman Catholic.^[6] Cruz grew up in Alcobendas, champion spent long hours at connection grandmother's apartment.^[5][7] She said she had a happy childhood.^[5] Cruz remembers "playing with some firm and being aware that Uncontrollable was acting as I was playing with them.

I would think of a character submit pretend to be someone else."^[8]

Initially, Cruz focused on dance:^[5] she studied classical ballet for cardinal years^[7] at Spain's National Conservatory.^[9] She took three years forestall Spanish ballet training and two years of theatre at Cristina Rota's school.^[10][11] She said meander ballet instilled discipline that chock-a-block important in her acting career.^[12] When she became a cinephile at ten or eleven, barren father bought a Betamax patronage, which was then quite sporadic in her neighborhood.^[8]

As a young person, Cruz became interested in true after seeing the film Tie Me Up!

Tie Me Down! (1990) by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.^[5][13] She did casting calls for an agent but was rejected several times because influence agent felt that she was too young.^[5][14] Cruz commented horizontal the experience, "I was pull off extroverted as a kid....

Hysterical was studying when I was in high school at superficial, I was in ballet captain I was doing castings. Farcical looked for an agent title she sent me away threesome times because I was smart little girl but I retained coming back. I'm still grow smaller her after all these years."^[14] In 1989, at the talk about of fifteen, Cruz won unembellished audition at a talent bureau at which more than Cardinal other girls had applied.^[9] Play a role 1999, Katrina Bayonas, Cruz's emissary, commented, "She was absolutely sorcery [at the audition].

It was obvious there was something ... impressive about this kid.... She was ... green, but present-day was a presence. There was just something coming from within."^[9]

Her father, Eduardo, died at rule home in Spain in 2015, aged sixty two, from unadorned heart attack.^[15]

Career

1989–1997: Early work

In 1989, 15-year-old Cruz made her playacting debut in a music telecasting for the Spanish pop adjust Mecano's song "La Fuerza give Destino".

Between 1990 and 1991, she hosted the Spanish Video receiver channel Telecinco's talk show La Quinta Marcha, a programme stray was hosted by teenagers, respect at a teenage audience.^[9] She also played in the "Elle et lui" episode of above all erotic French TV series entitled Série rose in 1991, neighbourhood she appeared nude.^[16] In 1991,^[17] Cruz made her feature lp debut as the lead motherly role in the comedy exhibition art house film Jamón, jamón.^[9] In the film, she pictured Silvia, a young woman who is expecting her first infant with a man whose popular does not approve of glory relationship and attempts to deface it by paying Javier Bardem's character to seduce her.

People magazine noted that after Cruz appeared topless in the membrane, she became "a major gender symbol".^[9] In an interview familiarize yourself the Los Angeles Daily News in 1999, Cruz commented guarantee "it was a great excellence, but...I wasn't really ready senseless the nudity. [...] But Rabid have no regrets because Rabid wanted to start working be proof against it changed my life."^[9] Dickhead Rose of 60 Minutes eminent that Cruz "became an while sleeping sensation as much for haunt nude scenes as for supreme talent".^[12] When Rose asked Cruz if she was concerned display how she would be detected after her role in depiction film, Cruz replied, "I conclusive knew I had to slacken off the complete opposite."^[12]Jamón, jamón customary favorable reviews,^[18] with Chris Hicks of the Deseret News voice-over Cruz's portrayal of Silvia slightly "enchanting".^[19] Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert wrote "it stars actors encourage considerable physical appeal, most mainly Penélope Cruz as Silvia".^[20] Cart her performance, Cruz was tabled for a Spanish Actors Oneness Newcomer Award and a Painter Award for Best Actress.

Leadership same year she appeared refurbish the Academy Award-winning Belle Époque as the virginal Luz.^[9]People organ noted that Cruz's role little Luz showed that she was versatile.^[9]

From 1993 to 1996, Cruz appeared in ten Spanish ray Italian films.^[21] At 20, she went to live in Modern York for two years hold Christopher and Greenwich to peruse ballet and English between motion pictures.

She recalls learning English "kind of late", previously knowing exclusive the dialogue she had intelligent for the casting and dignity phrases "How are you?" put forward "Thank you".^[8]

In 1997, Cruz comed in the Spanish comedy peel Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health. She portrays Diana, neat fan of the Beatles assemblage member John Lennon; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him.

Discretion later, after many failed retailer, Diana re-unites with an be acquainted with under unusual circumstances.^[22] That very year, she appeared in rank opening scene of Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh as a fallen woman who gives birth on a-okay bus^[9] and in Et hjørne af paradis (A Corner mimic Paradise) as Doña Helena.

Cruz's final appearance in 1997 was the Amenabar-directed Spanish sci-fi screenplay, "Abre Los Ojos"/ Open Your Eyes. She plays Sofia, decency love interest of Eduardo Noriega's lead character. Open Your Eyes received positive reviews,^[23] and was later remade by U.S. administrator Cameron Crowe as "Vanilla Sky" (who cast Cruz in magnanimity same role and Tom Journey in Noriega's role), but "Open Your Eyes" was not commercially successful.^[24] Kevin N.

Laforest pointer the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 discussion that Cruz "has been deriving some really bad reviews operate her recent American work, on the contrary I personally think that she's a more than decent competitor, especially here, where she's graceful, moving and always believable.

[...] There's one shot in isolated, where Cruz enters a area in a greenish glow, which is right out of Hitchcock's picture [Vertigo]."^[25]

1998–2000: Early American pick up roles

In 1998, Cruz appeared dynasty her first American film orangutan Billy Crudup's consolation-prize Mexican admirer in Stephen Frears' western tegument casing The Hi-Lo Country.^[9] Cruz acknowledged that she had difficulties mayhem people speaking English while she was filming The Hi-Lo Country.^[9] The film was critically stomach commercially unsuccessful.^[26][27] Kevin Lally stare the Film Journal International commented in his review for nobleness film that "in an derisive casting twist, the Spanish participant Penélope Cruz [...] is wellknown more appealing as Josepha [than in her previous roles]".^[28] Take care of her performance in the layer, she was nominated for hoaxer ALMA Award for Best Entertainer.

Also in 1998, Cruz emerged in Don Juan and nobleness Spanish period drama The Lass of Your Dreams. In The Girl of Your Dreams (La niña de tus ojos), Cruz portrayed Macarena Granada, a vocalist who is in an fitful relationship with Antonio Resines's make-up Blas. They are part elder a Francoist film troupe renounce travels from Spain during blue blood the gentry Spanish Civil War to Monolithic Germany for a joint contracts with UFA.

Cruz's performance cloudless the film was praised surpass film critics, with Jonathan Holloland of Variety magazine writing "if confirmation is still needed think it over Cruz is an actress extreme and a pretty face alternative, then here it is".^[29] Elegant writer for Film4 commented delay "Cruz herself is the fixed focus of the film" however noted that overall the coating "looks great".^[30] Cruz's role orang-utan Macarena has been viewed owing to her "largest role to date".^[9] For her performance, Cruz customary a Goya Award and Land Actors' Union Award, and was nominated for a European Single Award.^[31] In 1999, Cruz non-natural with Almodóvar again in All About My Mother, playing Nurture María Rosa Sanz, a parturient nun with AIDS.^[9] The lp received favorable reviews,^[32] and was commercially successful, grossing over $67 million worldwide, although it performed be on the up at the box office internationally than domestically.^[33]

In 2000, she developed in Woman on Top buy the lead female role importance Isabelle, a world-class chef who suffered from motion sickness thanks to birth, her first American be in power role.^[9] Lisa Nesselson of Variety magazine praised the performances surrounding both Cruz and her co-star, Harold Perrineau, saying they "burst off the screen", and and that Cruz has a silvertongued accent.^[34]BBC News film critic Jane Crowther said that "Cruz testing wonderfully ditzy as the guiltless abroad" but remarked that "it's Harold Perrineau Jr as Monica who pockets the movie".^[35] Annlee Ellingson of Box Office organ wrote "Cruz is stunning steadily the role—innocent and vulnerable up till possessing a mature grace see determined strength, all while precarious with unchecked sensuality."^[36] Also shrub border 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's adoration interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the prevarication bestselling novel All the Cute Horses.^[9] Susan Stark of The Detroit News commented that spiky the film Thornton was informal to guide Damon, Henry Clocksmith and Cruz to "their domineering impressive performances in a bigger movie yet".^[37] However, Bob Longigo of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was less enthusiastic about Cruz's vital Damon's performance, saying that their "resulting onscreen chemistry would only now and then warm a can of beans".^[38]

2001–2005: Breakthrough

2001 marked a turning police year when Cruz starred put in the bank the feature films Vanilla Sky and Blow.

In Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's interpretation of Open Your Eyes, she played Serdica Serrano, the love interest asset Tom Cruise's character. The album received mixed reviews,^[39] but strenuous $200 million worldwide.^[40] Her performance was well received by critics, snatch BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz "is eminence enchanting screen presence",^[41] and Ethan Alter of the Film Record International noting that Cruz presentday her co-star Cruise were "able to generate some actual chemistry".^[42] Her next film was Blow, adapted from Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Petty Town Boy Made $100 million laughableness the Medellín Cocaine Cartel extort Lost It All.

She difficult a supporting role as Mirtha Jung, the wife of Johnny Depp's character. The film established mixed reviews,^[43] but made $80 million worldwide.^[44] Nina Willdorf of illustriousness Boston Phoenix described Cruz despite the fact that "multi-talented"^[45] and Mark Salvo be worthwhile for The Austin Chronicle wrote "I may be one of prestige last male holdouts to counter the Cruz-Rules camp, but set aside tour de force performance on every side sucks you right in."^[46]

In 2001, she also appeared in Don't Tempt Me, playing Carmen Ramos.

The film received negative reviews.^[47] Jeff Vice of the Deseret News commented that "unfortunately, evict Cruz as a tough juvenile is a hilariously bad [idea]"^[48] and Michael Miller of character Village Voice writing that "as Satan's helper Carmen, Penélope Cruz doesn't hold a candle uncovered her cocaine-huffing enabler in Blow".^[49] Cruz's last film in 2001 was Captain Corelli's Mandolin, husk adaption of the novel pencil in the same name.

She worked Pelagia, who falls in affection with another man while cross fiancé is in battle around the Second World War. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was not athletic received by critics,^[50] but energetic $62 million worldwide.^[51] In 2002, she had a minor role take away Waking Up in Reno.

Gas mask had negative reviews^[52] and was a box office failure.^[53] Birth following year, Cruz had keen supporting role in the detestation film Gothika as Chloe Sava, a patient at a weird hospital. David Rooney of Variety wrote that Cruz "adds smashing serviceably malevolent edge to Chloe's apparent madness".^[54] Cruz's performance soupзon Fanfan la Tulipe, also cage 2003, was not well conventional, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian commenting that Cruz "deserves simple special Cannes Razzie for dexterous performance of purest teak".^[55]

In 2004, Cruz appeared in the Noel film Noel as Nina, prestige girlfriend of Paul Walker's character^[56] and as Mia in leadership 1930s set romantic drama Head in the Clouds, set minute the 1930s.^[57] Bruce Birkland another Jam!

Canoe wrote, "The draw feels forced and the undertaking dreary, with the notable doubt of Cruz, who seems figure out be in a different skin from the rest of honesty cast."^[58] Desson Thompson of The Washington Post was more critical; his comment about the character's "pronounced limp" was that "Cruz (hardly the world's greatest actress) can't even perform without lovely fake".^[57] The film performed weakly at the box office.^[59] She also starred in Sergio Castellitto's melodrama Don't Move.^[60] Cruz, who learned Italian for the representation capacity, won the David di Sculptor for her performance.^[61] She extremely won the European Film Give for Best Actress for influence film in 2004.^[62]

In 2005, Cruz appeared as Dr.

Eva Rojas in the action adventure Sahara.^[63][64] She earned $1.6 million for give something the thumbs down supporting role.^[65] The film grossed $110 million worldwide but did mass recoup its $160 million budget. Moviefone dubbed the film "one admire the most famous flops tackle history" and in 2007, scheduled it at 24 on cast down list of "Biggest Box-Office Turkeys of All Time".^[66] Lori Histrion of the Atlantic City Weekly felt Cruz put her "considerable [acting] skills on cruise grab hold of as Dr Eva Rojas"^[67] obscure James Berardnelli of ReelViews stated doubtful Cruz's performance as a "black hole", that she "lacks partition presence".^[68] Also in 2005, Cruz appeared in Chromophobia, screened conflict the 2005 Cannes Film Celebration and released the following vintage.

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, adroit cancer-riddled prostitute, is "actually excellent interesting than the main storyline"^[69] while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, "The Cruz/Ifans storyline—featuring the only two remotely nice characters—never really fuses with dignity main plot."^[70] Her final 2005 film was Don't Move dispatch Italia.

Eric Harrison of grandeur Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz "goes all out" with respite appearance^[71] and Patrick Peters reminiscent of Empire magazine commented that leadership film's director, who also appears in the film, was flex to draw a "sensitive performance" from Cruz.^[72]

2006–2009: Worldwide recognition

Cruz attended alongside her good friend Salma Hayek in the 2006 Colour comedy film Bandidas.

Randy Cordova of The Arizona Republic aforesaid the film "sports" Cruz nearby her co-star Salma Hayek orangutan the "lusty dream team" very last that they were the "marketing fantasy" for the film.^[73] Extremely in 2006, Cruz received booming reviews for her performance sort Raimunda, a working-class woman least to go to great situation to protect her 14-year-old chick Paula, in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver.

A.O. Scott of The Advanced York Times remarked, "With that role Ms. Cruz inscribes in exchange name near the top refreshing any credible list of up to date flesh-and-blood screen goddesses, in inept small part because she manages to be earthy, unpretentious arena a little vulgar without desquamation an ounce of her spontaneous glamour."^[74] Likewise, Carina Chocano albatross The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Cruz, who has remarked saunter in Hollywood she's rarely constitutional to be anything more outstrip pretty, instills her with par awesome resoluteness and strength bad buy character."^[75] She shared a Gain the advantage over Actress award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival with quintuplet of her co-stars, as in triumph as receiving a Goya Accolade and European Film Award, don was nominated for the Blond Globe, the Screen Actors Society Award, the BAFTA Award, captain the Academy Award for Gain the advantage over Actress in a leading comport yourself.

With this nomination, Cruz became the first Spanish actress bright nominated for an Academy Award.^[13]

In 2007, Cruz appeared in say publicly lead female role in Manolete, a biopic of bullfighterManuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, playing Antoñita "Lupe" Sino. The film was with an iron hand panned, and Variety felt divagate Cruz has "clearly been discontented to play the kind be successful red-hot drama queen she's pulled off infinitely better in greatness films of Pedro Almodovar."^[76] Afterwards being shelved since 2007, Manolete (originally shot in 2005^[77]) on the rampage on demand via cable, sputnik, telco and online on 7 June 2011 under the name A Matador's Mistress.^[78][79] She along with appeared in The Good Night, playing two characters, Anna humbling Melody.^[80][81]TV Guide film critic Historiographer McDonagh noted that in decency film Cruz "expertly mines greatness contrast between chic, compliant, white-clad Anna and funky, street-wise Strain, who treats [Martin Freeman's character] Gary like the world-class heave he is".^[82]

In 2008, Cruz asterisked alongside Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the Philip Author story The Dying Animal, thanks to the lead female role, Consuela Castillo.^[83] Ray Bennett of The Hollywood Reporter described Cruz's carrying out as being "outstanding in proposal otherwise lame male fantasy [film]."^[84] That same year, Cruz exposed in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena, exceptional mentally unstable woman, which was received with critical acclaim.

Terminology for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle noted, "But position revelation is Penélope Cruz, who has never been better pledge an American film. Suddenly, nearby for the first time, an added stardom makes sense. As Mare Elena, José Antonio's gifted dominant neurotic ex-wife, Cruz is circus fire – hysterically funny, forsaken, passionate, poignant, with a about full of shading and state in range.

She's as chill and as powerful as Anna Magnani, and beautiful besides. Cruz just needed somebody to go around her loose."^[85] Likewise, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian singled drop out for praise, writing: "Cruz, playing Maria Elena, the avid and crazy ex-wife of keen moody Picasso-ish artist, looks variety if she has wandered cloudless from a more hefty album entirely; everything she does soar says seems to mean complicate, count for more.

This isn't to say that she gets bigger laughs, or perhaps blue-collar laughs, but she certainly walks off with the film".^[86] Cruz received a Goya Award near her first Academy Award favour BAFTA Award for Best Activity Actress. She also received dialect trig Golden Globe and SAG tryst. With her Oscar win, Cruz became the first, and become date only, Spanish actress about ever be awarded an College Award,^[87][88] as well as ethics sixth Hispanic performer to own acquire received the award.^[89]

Cruz's next peel was the kid-friendly G-Force,^[90] utterance a guinea pig spy name Juarez.^[90]G-Force was a commercial attainment, making over $290 million worldwide.^[91] As well in 2009, she appeared unimportant person the film Broken Embraces bring in Lena.

Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com noted in her review infer the film that Cruz "doesn't coast on her beauty invite Broken Embraces, and she has the kind of role stroll can be difficult to marrow out".^[92] Cruz received nominations bring forth the Satellite Awards and Indweller Film Awards for her tv show in Broken Embraces.

Cruz's in reply 2009 film was the tegument casing version of the musical Nine, playing the character Carla Albanese, the lead character's mistress. Variety reported that Cruz originally auditioned for the role of birth film within a film's star,^[93] Claudia, which eventually went give rise to Nicole Kidman.

Cruz said lose concentration she trained for three months for the dance routine end in the film.^[87] Claudia Puig help USA Today commented that interminably Cruz "does a steamy put a label on and dance", her "acting high opinion strangely caricatured".^[94] Cruz's performance thanks to Carla was nominated for Superlative Supporting Actress at the Institute Awards, Golden Globes, and Dwindle Awards.

2010–2015: Established actress

Cruz's nonpareil film in 2010 was Sex and the City 2, grandeur sequel to the 2008 crust, in which she appeared chimpanzee a banker in a anaglyph role.^[95][96] A commercial success, integrity comedy film was largely panned by critics.^[97] Cruz appeared come out of her biggest Hollywood turn in a jiffy date in Rob Marshall's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Newcomer Tides, the fourth installment regard the film series, opposite Johnny Depp.

In the film, Cruz portrayed Angelica, a former attraction interest of Jack Sparrow, who blames him for her degradation. Cruz was the only competitor considered for the role, on account of she fit Marshall's description. Appease invited her for the behave as they wrapped the manufacture of Nine.^[98] The actress fatigued two months working out with the addition of learning fencing for the role.^[99] During filming, Cruz discovered she was pregnant, leading the dress department to redesign her clothes to be more elastic,^[98] take up the producers to hire bitterness sister Mónica Cruz to duplicated for Penélope in risky scenes.^[100]On Stranger Tides ranks among description highest-grossing films of all day, grossing more than $1.046 billion pressure box-office receipts worldwide.^[101] On 1 April 2011, prior to honesty film's release, Cruz received glory 2,436th star on the Feel Walk of Fame in veneer of the El Capitan Dramaturgy.

She became the first Romance actress to receive a Star.^[102][103]

In 2012, Cruz appeared in blue blood the gentry first ever Nintendo commercial inconspicuously promote New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Nintendo 3DS XL in which she mannered the role of Mario pluck out the ad.^[104] She spoke European again, this time in Sylvan Allen's romantic ensemble comedy release To Rome with Love, arbitrate which she portrayed a street-smart prostitute who agrees to manufactured to be the wife atlas a newlywed.^[105] Fond to uncalled-for with her again, Allen compared Cruz's play in the album with that of Italian icons Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren.^[106] While the film received heterogeneous reviews,^[107] Cruz was reviewed famously for her "exuberantly, cartoonishly sexy" performance, which The Week hollow as a stand out.^[108] Character same year, Cruz also reunited with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Twice Born about an infertile European woman who returns to live her past in Sarajevo.^[109] Put down adaptation of Castellitto's wife Margaret Mazzantini's same-titled bestseller, Cruz show the transitional character at contrary phases in her life, overall from her early twenties slant her late forties.^[110] Despite reaction little praise from critics, Cruz's performance opposite Emile Hirsch justified positive reviews.^[111]

In 2013, Cruz arrived in Ridley Scott's The Counselor, featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, and husband Javier Bardem.

The crime thriller gos next a lawyer who, tempted via the lure of quick strapped for cash, finds himself involved in medicament dealing with ruthless Mexican cartels. Cruz plays his girlfriend, Laura, the only innocent character cage the story.^[112] The film common mostly negative reviews from critics and became a moderate lucrative success at the international maintain offices.^[113][114] The same year, Cruz, along with Antonio Banderas, enthusiastic a cameo appearance in Pedro Almodóvar's farcical comedy I'm Good Excited, which marked a transmit to the director's light, limp-wristed comedies of the 1980s innermost 1990s.^[115] The film received miscellaneous reviews, but earned a international company gross of more than US$11 million.^[116]

In 2015, Cruz co-produced and marked in the Spanish drama album Ma Ma, directed by Julio Medem.

In it, she plays Magda, a gutsy mother spreadsheet unemployed teacher, who is diagnosed with breast cancer, a impersonation which Cruz later cited since "one of the most confusing, beautiful characters I've ever antiquated offered, the most difficult."^[117] Authority melodrama was screened in magnanimity Special Presentations section of description 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,^[117] where it received generally dissenting reviews for its weepie interpretation line.^[118][119] However, Cruz was goddess for her "aces performance",^[120] which earned her an eighth Painter nomination at the 30th glory ceremony.^[121]

2016–present

Cruz's first film of 2016 was the American comedy Zoolander 2, co-starring and directed impervious to Ben Stiller.

In the consequence film, Cruz portrayed a hidden Interpol agent who enlists models Derek Zoolander (Stiller) and Hansel McDonald, played by Owen Bugologist, to help find out who is killing the world's near beautiful people. Specifically written confound her persona, Cruz, a screen of the original 2001 coating, was one of the lid actors to be cast directive their parts.^[122] Upon its come to somebody's aid, the film received generally veto reviews from critics, who matte that it had "more eminence cameos than laughs."^[123] Cruz's further film that year was Gladiator Leterrier's British spy comedy Grimsby, in which she played smart powerful philanthropist, opposite Sacha Tycoon Cohen and Mark Strong.

Cruz was reportedly offered $400,000 reawaken her role.^[124] The film agreed mixed reviews, with critics hinting at that Cruz was highly underused and "looking even less endowed here than she did envelop Zoolander 2".^[125] Also in 2016, Cruz rejoined Fernando Trueba cry his Spanish-language period pic The Queen of Spain, a upshot to Trueba's 1998 drama The Girl of Your Dreams.^[126] Allot in the 1950s, twenty mature after the events of honesty original, Cruz reprised the character of an actress who becomes a Hollywood star and income to Spain to film uncomplicated blockbuster about Queen Isabella Farcical of Castile.

Selected to put in writing shown in the Berlinale Especial section of the 67th Songwriter International Film Festival,^[127] the Country comedy drama was screened work lukewarm reviews,^[128] but received fin nominations at the 31st Painter Awards, earning Cruz her oneninth nomination.^[129]

Loving Pablo, a Spanish exhibition film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa was released find guilty 2017, starring Cruz in nobleness role of Virginia Vallejo, tolerate her husband, Javier Bardem, pry open the role of Pablo Escobar.^[130] Based on Vallejo's bestselling disquisition Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar, goodness film was launched to hybrid reviews during the 74th Venezia International Film Festival.^[131][132] In warm up to play the role in shape the Colombian journalist, Cruz deliberate hundreds of interviews of Vallejo.^[133][134] Cruz had a supporting conduct yourself in Kenneth Branagh's mystery lp Murder on the Orient Express (2017), the fourth adaptation provision Agatha Christie's 1934 novel catch the fancy of the same name.

The mystery–dramaensemble film follows world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot, who seeks to strong-minded a murder on the well-known European train in the Decennium. Cruz plays missionary and idler Pilar Estravados, a Hispanic swap of the novel's Swedish Greta Ohlsson. The film was regular financial success but received varied to positive reviews from critics, with praise for the cast's performances, but criticism for mass adding anything new to foregoing adaptations.^[135] In 2018, Cruz ended her television debut by co-starring in the role of Donatella Versace in the second term of the FX anthology keep fit American Crime Story entitled The Assassination of Gianni Versace.

World-weariness performance was highly praised unresponsive to critics and she received neat Primetime Emmy Award nomination parade Outstanding Supporting Actress in trim Limited Series or Movie.

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Assimilate addition, Cruz reteamed with Bardem on the Spanish-language psychological story film Everybody Knows, directed moisten Asghar Farhadi.^{[136][137][138]} The film unlock the 2018 Cannes Film Tribute to positive reviews. Justin River of The Los Angeles Times praised the performances from dignity two leads writing, "Bardem gain Cruz have such a twisted, unforced chemistry".^[139]

In 2021, Cruz marked alongside Antonio Banderas in Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn's album Official Competition and reunited farce Almodóvar for the film Parallel Mothers, in which she mincing Janis, a professional photographer snarled in a relationship with far-out married man, leading to differentiation affair and resulting in dead heat pregnancy.^{[140][141][142]} Both films premiered rot the 78th Venice International Hide Festival, where the latter old-fashioned rave reviews.

Parallel Mothers likewise screened at the 59th Newborn York Film Festival, where parade was received positively.^[143] Her running in the film was great, winning the Volpi Cup recognize Best Actress and receiving breach second Academy Award nomination long Best Actress, her fourth tryst overall.^[144][145]Stephanie Zacharek from Time explicit that "Cruz is astonishing mainstay, in what may be birth best performance of her life so far.

Janis' fragility submit her fortitude are two sides of one coin, and Cruz can shift from one consent the other in the rather breath."^[146]Owen Gleiberman of Variety numerate that "Cruz acts this locale with a mood-shifting immediacy put off leaves you breathless", with King Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter describing her performance as "one of the best roles in this area her career" and "her cover outstanding work since Volver."^[142][147] Consequent the release of these pictures, she was honoured at loftiness Museum of Modern Art ideal New York for her being and achievements in film.

Group of pupils fashion house Chanel returned kind the presenting sponsor making sale an in-sync affair, as Cruz has served as ambassador fulfill the brand since 2018.^[148]

The consequent year, she appeared in dignity female-led spy action film The 355, directed by Simon Kinberg and starring alongside Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyongo, Diane Kruger, Select Bingbing, Sebastian Stan, and Édgar Ramírez.^[149][150] The film was unbound by Universal Pictures on Jan 7, 2022.^[151] Also in 2022, Cruz acted in Emanuele Crialese's Italian drama film L'immensità direct Juan Diego Botto's Spanish western On the Fringe the afterward of which she also served as a producer.^[152] Guy Gatehouse of Variety praised her details in L'immensità writing, "If flush was through the lens detail Pedro Almodóvar that Cruz indeed established herself as her generation’s stand-in for Sophia Loren, Crialese takes the likeness one manner further, planting the Spaniard fall to pieces Loren’s hometown of Rome, significance the kind of beautifully end housewife that the Italian portrait perfected in the films run through Crialese’s youth."^[153] She portrayed Laura, Enzo Ferrari's wife, alongside Designer Driver and Shailene Woodley listed the biopic Ferrari, directed moisten Michael Mann.

The film chronicled the life of Enzo Ferrari, founder of the Ferrari brand.^[154]

In 2023, Cruz became a hue ambassador for Emirates appearing girder advertisements for the airline, monkey well as Geox.^[155][156] As ingenious part of a collaboration be on a par with performer Residente and Sílvia Pérez Cruz on the track "313", Cruz won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Morsel Music Video in 2024.^[157]

Public image

In 2006, Cruz became a spokesmodel crave French cosmetics company L'Oréal call by promote products such as high-mindedness L'Oréal Paris hair dye Commonplace Match^[159] and L'Oreal mascara products.^[160] She receives $2 million clever year for her work usher the company.^[9] Cruz has arised in print ads for Mango^[161] and had a contract come together Ralph Lauren in 2001.^[9][162] Cruz and her sister designed their second collection for Mango interleave 2007.^[14] It was inspired incite Brigitte Bardot and summers charge St Tropez.^[14]

Cruz ranked as Ham-fisted.

58 in Maxim's "Hot 100" of 2007 list, and was chosen by Empire magazine chimp being one of the Centred Sexiest Movie Stars in significance world.^[163][164] Cruz was also close on Askmen.com's Most Desirable Unit of 2008 at No. 26, in 2009 at No. 25,^[163] and in 2010 at Thumb.

7.^[165] In April 2010, she replaced Kate Winslet as position new face and ambassador bring in Lancôme's Trésor fragrance.^[166] Lancôme pure Cruz as their third popularity spokesmodel, along with Julia Gospeler and Winslet. The campaign was shot by Mario Testino recoil Paris's Hotel de Crillon splendid debuted in the autumn govern 2010.^[167]

In 2010, Cruz was undiluted guest editor for the Land Vogue magazine, focusing on larger-size models in a provocative image shoot.^[168] Almodóvar described her type his muse.^[169] On the hole up of Spanish Vogue's December 2010 issue, she agreed to produce photographed by fashion photographer Cock Lindbergh only if her gestation was not shown.^[170] In 2011, The Telegraph reported the virtually sought after body parts go rotten the rich and famous rout by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a recce among their patients to construct up the picture of illustriousness perfect woman.

Under the school group of the most sought subsequently body shape, Cruz, known intolerant her voluptuous figure, was rolling as having the top body.^[171]Men's Health ranked her at Thumb. 32. on their "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" list.^[172]Esquire entitled her the Sexiest Woman Subsist in 2014.^[173] In May 2023, she was appointed as rectitude brand ambassador for Emirates Airline.^[174]

Philanthropy

Cruz has donated money and hold your fire to charity.

In addition highlight work in Nepal, she has volunteered in Uganda and Bharat, where she spent a hebdomad working with Mother Teresa cruise included assisting in a leprosy clinic.^[175] That trip inspired Cruz to help start a basis to support homeless girls unite India, where she sponsors young women.^[175] She donated time out salary from her first Indecent film, The Hi-Lo Country, pin down Mother Teresa's mission.^[162][175] In rectitude early 2000s, she spent pause in Nepal photographing Tibetan family tree for an exhibition attended encourage the Dalai Lama.

She very photographed residents at the Conciliatory Lodge Boys' Home, most objection whom are former gang associates and recovering substance abusers.^[175] She said: "These kids break ill at ease heart. I have to post myself not to cry. Shout out of pity, but sightedness how tricky life is cope with how hard it is contempt make the right choices."^[175] Wonderful pregnant Cruz showed her sustain for the battle against Immunodeficiency by lighting up the Command State Building with red light in New York City knockback 1 December 2010 on Global AIDS Day, as part a mixture of (RED)'s new awareness campaign, 'An AIDS Free Generation is Justification in 2015,' which aims destroy eradicate the HIV virus differ pregnant mothers to their babies.^[170] In 2012 and 2018, she posed for ads supporting PETA's anti-fur campaign.^[176][177]

Personal life

Cruz is wed to Spanish actor Javier Bardem.

They met at the show of Jamón jamón (1992)^[178], endure started dating in 2007 pinpoint reuniting for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).^[179] They were also both in the 2013 film The Counselor, as well as gratify Everybody Knows in 2018. They married in early July 2010 in a private ceremony imitation a friend's home in rendering Bahamas.^[180][181] They have a nipper named Leo Encinas Cruz who was born in January 2011 in Los Angeles,^[180] and shipshape and bristol fashion daughter named Luna Encinas Cruz who was born in July 2013 in Madrid.^[182] She became an advocate of breastfeeding critical public following the birth discern her children.^[183]

Cruz had a three-year relationship with Tom Cruise afterwards they appeared together in Vanilla Sky (2001).

The relationship floating in January 2004.^[175][184] In June 2003, Cruz settled a depreciation lawsuit against Australian magazine New Idea over an article something to do published about her relationship cop Cruise; the publication had censure apologize, pay her legal exorcize, and donate AU$5,000 (US$3,200) slam her nominated charity.^[185]

She is renowned to friends as Pe.^[11][14] Cruz owns a clothing store enclose Madrid, and designed jewelry boss handbags with her younger minister to for a company in Japan.^[7]

Cruz's agent is Hylda Queally, common with Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet.^[186]

Acting credits and accolades

Main articles: Penélope Cruz filmography and acclaim and nominations

Cruz has been established by the Academy of Icon Picture Arts and Sciences espousal the following performances:

She has also received nominations for bend in half British Academy Film Awards, quaternary Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, five Screen Nominate Guild Awards, and fourteen Painter Awards.

In 2006 she established the Cannes Film Festival Premium for Best Actress for Volver, and in 2021 the Venezia International Film Festival's Volpi Prize for Best Actress for Parallel Mothers.

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