A star, who manages with unique grace to enter and exit commercial cinema, to make artistic and social awakening films, to fight for the rights of the weak, to maintain a remarkable public profile, while at the same time remaining an iconic face of major cosmetics companies.
We met her as a girl, bringing a different fresh air with her Mediterranean beauty, her fiery eroticism, her special talent. Penelope Cruz, Spain’s leading actress, who has for years entered with her sword among the biggest names in the world cinema scene, continues to be in demand, to be a guarantee for every director and every production.
A star, who manages with unique grace to enter and exit commercial cinema, to make artistic and social awakening films, to fight for the rights of the weak, to maintain a remarkable public profile, while at the same time remaining an iconic face of major cosmetics companies.
Since the early 2000s, when Hollywood welcomed her with honors, Cruise has to her credit four Oscar nominations and one Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for “Vicky Christina Barcelona» by Woody Allen.
She is the first and only Spanish woman to have won it, while she also has four nominations for the Golden Globe. In Europe, it has won many awards in Cannes, Venice, César, Goya, but also among its demanding audience.
A wonderful 50
Penelope Cruz is no longer the hot girl who upset us from her first film, the famous, mainly due to her presence, “Jamon, Jamon”, with which she became one of the most popular sex symbols, but an experienced actress, flawless in performance and always attractive. Almodovar’s muse is as of today a wonderful 50-year-old and is ready to open a new chapter in her artistic career and in her life, alongside her husband, Javier Bardem, also an iconic Spanish star.
Ballet dancer
Penelope Cruz Sánchez was born in Alcobendas, Madrid on April 28, 1974, to Encarna, a hairdresser, and Eduardo, a car mechanic from Extremadura, she also has a younger brother, Eduardo, a singer, and a younger sister, Monica, who has also entered the field of entertainment. Penelope initially aspired to become a dancer, taking classical ballet lessons for nine years.
Ballet will later help her in acting as well, providing her with the necessary discipline and dedication to what she does.
Binding
Penelope will turn to cinema when she saw in 1990 Pedro Almodovar’s film “Tie Me” with Banderas and Victoria Abril. Such was her excitement that she started going to tryouts every day and eating scraps. Finally, she will manage to enter the space, after an audition in a talent agency, having to compete with more than 300 girls.
Jamon, Jamon
In 1992, she will make her film debut in Bigas Luna’s comedy-drama Jamon, Jamon, playing Silvia, a young independent girl who has to deal with her partner’s mother.
The girl with all black hair, big black eyes, with her clear and haughty gaze, mouth as lovely as a fresh strawberry, but also the wonderful proportions of her body, which she revealed by acting naked in some scenes, will make her a “huge sex symbol”, according to People magazine.
Soon after, he will join the cast of the multi-awarded film “Belle Époque” by Fernando Trueba and will play until 1996 in ten more Spanish and Italian films, while he had already traveled to New York, to study ballet and English.
“Hot Flesh”
In 1997, always in roles where she ignites romantic passions, Cruz will play in the Spanish comedy “Love Seriously Damages Health”, while in the same year he will meet Pedro Almodovar, with whom he will develop a close artistic collaboration as well as a lifelong relationship. Their first film, out of six so far, was a comedy “Hot Flesh”.
In 1999 he will work again with Almodovar in the wonderful satirical comedy “All About My Mother”, playing a pregnant nun suffering from AIDS. The film, which launched both the Spanish director’s and Cruz’s careers, would receive rave reviews and become a worldwide box office success.
Cruise… Vol
After two or three indifferent films, Cruise will star in the successful psychological thriller “Vanilla Sky” by Cameron Crowe. During filming she will get close to her co-star Tom Cruise, with whom they will be in a relationship for three years. In 2001 he will play alongside Nicolas Cage in the anti-war melodrama “Captain Corelli’s mandolin”which was filmed in Kefalonia.
In 2005 the time will come for an exotic romantic adventure, the “Sahara”, where she will fall in love with her co-star Matthew McConaughey. Next year he will star alongside Salma Hayek in the comedy western “Listarhines”while in the same year he will star in Almodovar’s film “Come back”where she would excel and win the performance award at the Cannes Film Festival, while also receiving nominations for the Oscar for Best Actress and the Golden Globe.
Oscar
Her collaboration with Woody Allen in comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, will also give her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 – the first Spanish actress to win the golden statuette. In 2009, he will star in another Almodóvar film, the “Broken hearts”while the failure of the musical will follow “Nine”although she was good (again nominated for an Oscar for a supporting actress) and next to the incomparable Daniel Day-Lewis.
Woody Allen
In 2010, he will star in the fourth film of the most commercial franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean”next to Johnny Depp, whom he meets again after ten years and the interesting “Blow”. In 2012, he will star in Woody Allen’s modular romantic comedy “To Rome with Love”while next year he will join the cast of Almodovar’s film “I Don’t Hold Back”.
In 2017, he will act in two films, in the dramatic adventure “Escobar” and in the mystery film “Crime on the Orian Express”Kenneth Branagh’s interesting remake, which features a great cast.
Suited Bardem
In 2018, she will star in the excellent film of the great Iranian director Asghar Faradi, with her husband since 2008 – and her perfect match – Javier Bardem, with whom they have a son. Immediately after, she will shoot two more dramas with Almodovar, the interesting “Pain and Glory”, with Banderas next to her, and the heartbreaking “Parallel Mothers”.
Last year she starred in the brilliant social awakening drama about the financial crisis in Spain and the foreclosure of houses by the banks, “In Accra”, brilliantly portraying a poor and stubborn worker. Finally, a few months ago we saw her in Michael Mann’s biographical drama Ferrari, delivering a wonderful performance.
Role model
Penelope Cruz stays busy – she is already preparing a film with Woody Allen – but she never forgets the ordinary people, the peoples who are being tested.
She hasn’t lost her fighting spirit, volunteering in Nepal, Uganda and India, often donating a lot of money to charity and continuing to care about people’s plight.
The gorgeous babe, who conquered Hollywood but never forgot her roots, has now convinced us that she can be a true role model artist.
Source :Skai
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