 Birth
Name: Penélope Cruz Sánchez
Nickname: Pe
Date of Birth: 28 April 1974
Zodiac: Taurus
Residence: Madrid, Spain
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 109 pounds
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Experience: 10 years - classical ballet
3 years - Spanish ballet
4 years - theatre
Facts: Vegetarian
Claim to Fame: Sofia Serrano in Vanilla
Sky (2001)
The eldest daughter of a hairdresser and an auto
mechanic, growing up in Madrid, Spain, PENELOPE
CRUZ didn't want the normal pretty pony or a pretty
stud, she instead dreamed of swans and nutcrackers
and handsome princes! She further studied classical
ballet at the National Conservatory for nine years.
Cruz worked steadily in Spanish cinema from her
1991 debut in El Laberinto Griego (Greek Labyrinth),
for the next seven years. Cruz also made a brief
and forgettable trip to the American shores, and
accepted a role in a 1993 telepic, Framed, featuring
Timothy Dalton. And then in Belle Époque, which
won a 1994 foreign film Oscar. She then played
what she deemed "the ugly woman" in
Live Flesh and in Mother (1999), in which Cruz
depicted a nun impregnated by a transvestite.
She filmed La Niña de Tus Ojos (The Girl of Your
Dreams), a role that would earn her a 1999 Best
Actress Goya. She also appeared in the Hollywood
feature, The Hi-Lo Country.
Filmography
Vanilla Sky (2001) .... Sofia Serrano
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) .... Pelagia
Blow (2001) .... Mirtha Jung
Woman on Top (2000) .... Isabella Oliveira
All the Pretty Horses (2000) .... Alejandra de
la Rocha
Hi-Lo Country, The (1998) .... Josepha O'Neil
Talk of Angels (1998) .... Pilar
Don Juan (1998) .... Mathurine
Framed (1992) (TV) .... Lola Del Moreno
Articles & Interviews
Premiere "Is Penélope Cruz Too Beautiful
for Words?" date unknown
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