Penelope Cruz Sanchez

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and Encarna Sanchez who was a hairdresser. When she was a toddler and a devoted performer who would recreate commercials on television for the enjoyment of her parents. However, she chose to concentrate on dance. After nine years of ballet classes at Spain's National Conservatory she was able to continue her training under the tutelage of a variety of prominent dancers. When she was 15 she followed her call when she topped over 300 other girls in an audition for a talent agency. She was offered roles on Spanish video and television. This led to a number of more roles, which opened the doors to a career on the world of big screens. Cruz made her debut in a film in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth) Then she appeared briefly in the Timothy Dalton thriller Framed (1992). Her next film, Belle Epoque (1992), was an Oscar-winning production in which she was one of the four sisters that were trying to win the affection of an attractive deserter army soldier. It also took home several Goyas in Spain which is the Spanish equivalent to the Academy Awards. She continued to add more films to her portfolio, growing by three to four per year. Soon Cruz was the most sought-after actress in Spanish cinema. Live Flesh (1997) (Live Flesh) offered her the chance to work with renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodovar (who would later be her ticket to international fame), and the same year she was the lead actress in the thriller/drama/mystery/sci-fi film Open Your Eyes (1997), a huge hit in Spain that earned eight Goyas (though none for Cruz). It was a turning point for her in 1998 when the film industry comedy La Nina De Tus Ojos (1998) was awarded the award for award for the Best Actress Goya. Cruz made a few more attempts at English-language films, but her first international success was Almodovar's All About My Mother (1999), in which she played an unchaste but very well-meaning nun. Cruz was suddenly in high demand throughout the Atlantic and the west coast, since the film won numerous awards and accolades. The American comedy Woman on Top (2001) was her next major project, is about Chefs who have amazing culinary skills and severe motion sickness. In the US,






 




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