Penelope Cruz

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Penélope Cruz, 2018

Penélope Cruz Sánchez [ peˈnelope ˈkruθ ˈsant͡ʃeθ ] (born April 28, 1974 in Alcobendas ) is a Spanish actress and Oscar winner.

Life

Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born to Eduardo Cruz, a car mechanic , and Encarnación Sánchez, a hairdresser . She has two younger siblings: Mónica , also an actress, and Eduardo , a singer known in Spain .

In early July 2010 she married her fellow actor Javier Bardem . The marriage resulted in a son (* 2011) and a daughter (* 2013).

Career

After studying classical ballet at Spain's National Conservatory for nine years, Cruz continued training with a number of prominent dancers . With her appearance in the music video La fuerza del destino by the pop group Mecano , she achieved a certain level of notoriety for the first time in Spain in 1988. At the age of 15 she won a talent competition. The related contract gave her various roles on Spanish television shows and music videos, paving the way for a career on the big screen.

Cruz made her film debut in El laberinto griego ( The Greek Labyrinth , 1991). She then had a small role in the TV mini-series Ice Cold Duel with Timothy Dalton (1992). Her third film was the Oscar- winning Belle Epoque (1992), in which she plays one of four sisters competing for the favor of an attractive deserter . Her biography continued to grow by three to four films a year and soon Cruz was the leading woman in Spain's cinema. Live Flesh - With skin and hair (Carne trémula , 1997) gave her the opportunity to work with Spain's renowned director Pedro Almodóvar (who later became her door opener to international films). In the same year she played the lead role in the mystery film Virtual Nightmare - Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos , 1997), which was remade in 2001 with her (again in the same role) alongside Tom Cruise as Vanilla Sky for American cinema has been.

Her career peaked in 1998 when she received the Goya Award for Best Actress for the film industry comedy The Girl of Your Dreams (La Niña de tus ojos , 1998) . Cruz, who also went on excursions into English-language film, had her first international hit with Almodóvar's Oscar-winning work All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre , 1999), in which she plays a pregnant nun suffering from AIDS . The film was showered with awards and praise and Cruz was now well known and sought after on both sides of the Atlantic .

Penélope Cruz, 2003

Her next big project was Woman on Top (2000), an American comedy about a cook with adorable skills and a severe case of motion sickness . During her stay in the USA, she starred with Johnny Depp in the drug dealing drama Blow (2001) and with Matt Damon in Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses (2000).

Other Hollywood roles followed such as B. in Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001) and in Breck Eisner's action film Sahara (2005). With her liaisons to her respective film partners in these films, Tom Cruise (Vanilla Sky) and Matthew McConaughey (Sahara) , she made headlines in the international tabloids.

In 2006 Cruz returned to her native Spain and again acted under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar. For her outstanding performance in the tragic comedy Volver - Return , she and her fellow actors Carmen Maura , Lola Dueñas , Blanca Portillo , Yohana Cobo and Chus Lampreave received the Actor Award at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival in the same year and, months later, the European Film Award for Best Actress . In 2007 she was nominated for an Oscar for the first time for Best Actress . She also received critical acclaim for her supporting role in Woody Allen's comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), which won her Goya and BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe nomination in 2009 . For her part of María Elena, she became the first Spanish actress ever to be awarded the Oscar in the same year .

A few months later, Almodóvar's film Torn Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) , in which she played a supposedly unsuccessful, tragically ending actress, followed suit . The role - in the fourth collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar she plays both the reserved actress Lena Rivero, a woman between two men, and her portrayal of the turned-up Pina in the film - earned her a nomination for the European Film Awards .

From February 2010, Penélope Cruz worked with Rob Marshall on the music film Nine , for which she was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. She could be seen in Sex and the City 2 in May 2010 . In the fourth part of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, she was seen from May 2011 on the side of Johnny Depp in the role of Angelica. In April 2011 she became the first Spanish actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

In October 2014, it was the men's magazine Esquire for Sexiest Woman Alive chosen.

Filmography (selection)

Penélope Cruz 2011 at the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the 64th Cannes Film Festival

Awards and nominations

In April 2011 when she was awarded her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Oscar

Golden Globe Award

Primetime Emmy Award

British Academy Film Award

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Boston Society of Film Critics Award

National Board of Review

  • 2009: Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Goya

  • 1993: Nominated for Best Actress for Jamon Jamon
  • 1999: Awarded Best Actress for The Girl of Your Dreams
  • 2005: Nominated for Best Actress for Don't Move
  • 2007: Awarded Best Actress for Volver - Returning
  • 2009: Awarded Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • 2010: Nominated for Best Actress for Broken Hugs
  • 2013: Nominated for Best Actress for Venuto al mondo
  • 2016: Nominated for Best Actress for Ma Ma - The Origin of Love
  • 2017: Nominated as Best Lead Actress for La reina de España
  • 2018: Nominated for Best Actress for Loving Pablo
  • 2019: Nominated for Best Actress for Open Secret
  • 2020: Nominated for Best Actress for Sorrow and Glory

European film award

  • 2006: Best Actress for Volver - Return

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2007: Nominated for Best Actress for Volver - Returning

César

  • 2007: Nominated for Best Actress for Volver - Returning

MTV Movie Award

  • 2001: Nominated in the Breakthrough Female Performance category for Blow

Golden Raspberry

literature

Web links

Commons : Penélope Cruz  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Penélope Cruz 's biography on Who's Who
  2. ↑ Wedding bells : Penélope Cruz is under the hood , faz.net
  3. ↑ Exclusiva en ¡HOLA! Penélope Cruz y Javier Bardem: ha sido niño y nació el sábado . In: ¡ Hola ! , January 26, 2011 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Notification of birth and gender on: jolie.de
  5. ↑ Almodóvar Special: The bosom of Penélope Cruz, seen by Pedro Almodóvar. moviepilot.de
  6. ↑ moviepilot.de
  7. ↑ kino.de
  8. ↑ Penelope Cruz replaces Scarlett Johansson as "Sexiest Woman Alive" ( Memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ,wirtschaftsblatt.at, article from October 13, 2014, accessed on October 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Cruz, Penelope
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cruz Sánchez, Penélope (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish actress and Oscar winner
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Alcobendas , Spain