Penelope Cruz Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The Spaniard is considered one of the most beautiful women in the planet. But Penelope’s love and recognition deserved not only external data, but also her unique dramatic talent and the ability to embody a variety of images on the screen. The childhood of the star took place in the suburbs of Madrid. Her father Eduardo was an entrepreneur, and Encarn's mother owned a small hairdresser.

Penelope is the eldest of three children. From early childhood, the girl was distinguished by a stubborn and restless character. At 4 years old, she began to engage in ballet and even then she dreamed of becoming an actress. As a child, Penelope entertained her family, copying the commercials that were shown on TV. The girl asked her father to buy her these perfumes and was happy to receive the treasured bottle.

Penelope Cruz in childhood with her sister began when Penelope was 14, the tape of Pedro Almodovar “Bind Me” made a strong impression on her. The emotions were so strong that the girl found the director’s address in the telephone reference book and went to his house. The director listened to the girl and said that he would gladly offer her a role in her film when she became an actress.

Then Penelope began to look for agents and pass the auditions. Soon she managed to star in the video clip of the Mecano group, and at the beginning of the x the girl became a leading teenage show and worked there up to a year. Penelope Cruz in the video “Mecano” - La Fuerza del Destino in the year, the actress starred in the episode of the series “Pink Series” and caused the wrath of parents who saw her seventeen -year -old daughter completely naked.

Parents of Penelope were the aged Catholics. The actress for a long time remembered the scandal, which her homes arranged for her; Mother even gave her a slap in the face. But this did not break the determination and will of Penelope. Penelope Cruz in her youth in the year she played the role of Sylvia in the film "Wash, ham." It is also one of the first paintings with the participation of Havier Bardem.

In several frames of Penelope, she again appeared naked, and after the picture was released on a large screen, the young actress was called a sex symbol. Penelope Cruz in the film “Vetshchina, Vetshchina” next year, playing in the melodrama “Graceful Age”, Penelope was nominated for the prestigious Spanish Goya Prize. In the year, the Spaniard went to conquer America.

She did not know English at all, but was full of determination. Having settled the first successes in Hollywood in the famous Greenwich-Villija, a quarter, chosen by artists and other Bohemia representatives, the girl quickly found friends. She entered the dance studio of Christina Rota, and also studied English and acting. Penelope again found the master and announced to him that she had already become an actress.

The director laughed at the eccentric, but invited her to listen to. The thriller “Living Flesh”, like all the creations of the master, was ambiguous and very sensual, was taken based on the English writer Rut Rendell. Penelope Cruz in the film “Living Flesh” by the next film, in which Penelope starred, was a penetrating masterpiece “Open your eyes”. The frame from the film “Everything about my mother” before the beginning of X she starred in several paintings, but the recognition as a deep dramatic actress received only after the release of the film “Everything about my mother”.

The picture received an Oscar - it was recognized as the best foreign film of the movie season.

It is from this moment that the star career of the Spanish beautiful career began to develop. The best roles in the year were two paintings with brilliant Cruz, which immediately became hits and brought the actress recognition in Hollywood. The tape "Vanilla sky" was shot by director Cameron Crowe. And although moviegoers love the Spanish original “open your eyes” more, the film received a commercial success.

In the beautiful allegorical drama, Penelope played the role of Sofia, her partner was played by Tom Cruise. Penelope Cruz and Tom Cruise in the film “Vanilla sky” in the Cocaine criminal drama, telling the story of the famous smuggler and drug dealer, the Spaniard shone in the company of Johnny Depp and Ray Luitta. Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp in the film “Cocaine” in the period from Penelope for the year, the star is not only European, but also world cinema, starred in more than 10 paintings.

Among them: the comedy thriller “There is no news from God”, in which she played in a duet with Victoria Abriel, the horror drama “Gothic”, the melodramatic tape “Head in the clouds”, the drama “Noel”, the adventure action movie of “Sahara” with Matthew McConahi. Penelope Cruis dances an excerpt from the movie Noel and although the actress loves all her works of this period, with the greatest warmth she responds about the picture of Sergio Castellitto “Do not leave”, which occupies a special place in her heart.

The dramatic picture "Do not leave" was released in the year. Spectators who are accustomed to see an actress on the screen, striking the imagination not only with her acting talent, but also with a beautiful appearance, expected a surprise. Penelope Cruz in the film “Do not leave” Penelope appeared as a not very young and ugly poor woman with the strange name of Italy.

She is in love with a successful married man, whose role was played by the incredible Sergio Castellitto.As a result of the accident, to which her lover is indirectly involved, Italy dies, and only then does the main character realize that he had lost the most important thing that was in his life. At the premiere, the audience sobbed, affected by the tragedy of the image, which managed to convey Penelope Cruz.

The famous expert on cinema, Roger Ebert, said that he would never review the picture again, because he could not survive what he saw again. Penelope Cruz and Sergio Castellitto in the film “Don’t leave” the tape received two Italian Donatello prizes for the best female and male roles, four “silver ribbons” and two nominations for Goya. In the year, Penelope again played in the film a brilliant Italian Castellitto.

In the drama "Born twice" she played the role of Jamma, which tells the story of her life and extraordinary love. She re -worries the events of the Civil War in Serbia. Emil Hirsch and the legendary Jane Birkin also played in this picture. In an interview, the actress has repeatedly said that she knows how to dream correctly, and she “outlined” for herself the role in “Vika Christina Barcelona”.

And the director himself said that he did not see any other actress in the role of ecstatic Maria Elena. Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall, as well as Javier Bardem, who will soon become the husband of a brilliant Penelope, shot in the picture. Penelope Cruz at the Oscar ceremony, the beautiful pirate and other roles in the year, the actress lit up with her appearance “Pirates of the Caribbean”.

She got the roles of Angelica, the lover of the rogue of Jack Sparrow. Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp in the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strange shores” in the year she again took part in the Woodallen “Roman adventures”, playing the role of a prostitute. And two years later she played the role of a woman trying to cope with a serious illness in the drama “MA” director Hulio Medema.

The actress played the role of agent Valentina, investigating the murder in the world of the fashion industry. Penelope Cruz and Woody Allen was fruitful for the actress, she starred in the Bayopic “Escobar”, telling about the legendary smuggler and drug dealer, and the detective “Murder in the Eastern Express”. In the year, the Madrid Madonna, as Penelope was nicknamed in Hollywood, continued to act in a project dedicated to Gianni Versace.

In the series, she played Donatell. In the year, the premiere of the painting “Labyrinths of the past” took place, in which the actress starred with her husband Javier Bardem. Then the audience saw her tandem with Antonio Banderas in the drama of Pedro Almodovar “Pain and Glory” nominated for Oscar as the best foreign film. And in the year they shone together again in the Dramed about the acting cuisine “The main role”.

About the role of the director Lola, whose film decides to finance the eccentric billionaire, Penelope told me this role seemed incredibly ridiculous because I played a perfect wild psychopath. She suffers very much from loneliness, because she is completely unbearable. But playing her had fun, since I had a carte blanche from our directors to my own interpretation of this heroine.

This is a story about mothers who gave birth to one day, but this is all that unites them: the heroine Cruz is a woman-photographer, the heroine Smith is a raped minor. However, two newly -made mothers come closer, which forever changes their life. For this work, Penelope was nominated for an Oscar for the best female role, but Jessica Chastain received a figurine for her role in the film “Tammy Fay's eyes”.

However, official novels ended very quickly, as they began. Penelope Cruz with Havier Bardem from an interview with the actress can be understood that she found female happiness only with Havier Bardem, who was intended for her with fate. For the first time, she met with him on the site of the film “ham, ham”, in which the actors played lovers. Javier was seriously carried away by the young beauty, but Penelope was then interested only in his career, and she went to conquer the Hollywood peaks.

After 15 years, fate again brought them in one place and at the same time, the star Spaniards got married shortly after the premiere of Viki Kristina Barcelona. The wedding took place in the Bagams, two children appeared in the family: the son of Leo and his youngest sister Luna for three years. Penelope Cruz with her husband and children Penelope, never distinguished by imaginary and superstition, prohibits reporters to ask questions about the details of life with Havier and their children.

But the actress willingly shares secrets that help her maintain shape and look great. The main weapon against the appearance of wrinkles and dark circles under the eyes, she calls a dream and claims that she can oversleep for more than 18 hours! The second secret weapon of the star is delicious food and good mood. It is known that the actress loves to eat and is not a vegetarian, like most stars.

An interview with Penelope Cruz in the “Evening Show with Jimmy Kimmel”, in addition to creative achievements and beauty, Penelope also loves for a good heart. The actress is actively engaged in charity and participates in various funds for helping those in need. Penelope Cruz now the actress continues to act both in Spanish cinema, such as the drama of the “immustry” of the year, nominated for the main prize of the Venice Film Festival, and in the Hollywood, as an action movie “Code”, who brought her a nomination for the “Golden Raspberry” anti -a -a -aid, or a biographical drama with Adam “Ferrari”, who was released in the year and also nominated on the "Golden Leo".

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