Stunning Penelope Cruz PictureKnown alfresco her built-in country as the "Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was built-in in Madrid to Eduardo (a retailer) and Encarna (a hairdresser). As a toddler, she was already a besetting performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she absitively to focus her energies on dance. After belief classical ballet for nine years at Spain's National Conservatory, she connected her training beneath a alternation of arresting dancers. At 15, however, she heeded her accurate calling back she baffled added than 300 added girls at a aptitude bureau audition.
The consistent arrangement landed her several roles in Spanish TV shows and music videos, which in about-face paved the way for a career on the big screen. Cruz fabricated her cine admission in The Greek Labyrinth (1993) (The Greek Labyrinth), again appeared briefly in the Timothy Dalton abstruseness "Framed" (1992). Her third blur was the Oscar-winning The Age of Beauty (1992), in which she played one of four sisters allusive for the adulation of a handsome army deserter. The blur additionally garnered several Goyas, the Spanish agnate of the Academy Awards. Her resume connected to abound by three or four films anniversary year, and anon Cruz was a arch adult of Spanish cinema.
Live Flesh (1997) (Live Flesh) offered her the adventitious to assignment with acclaimed Spanish administrator Pedro Almodóvar (who would after be her admission to all-embracing fame), and the aforementioned year she was the advance extra in the thriller/drama/mystery/sci-fi blur Open Your Eyes (1997), a huge hit in Spain that becoming eight Goyas (though none for Cruz). Her luck assuredly afflicted in 1998, back the movie-industry ball The Girl of Your Dreams (1998) won her a Best Extra Goya. Cruz fabricated a few added forays into English-language film, but her aboriginal big all-embracing hit was Almodóvar's All About My Mother (1999), in which she played an cheating but well-meaning nun. As the blur was showered with awards and accolades, Cruz aback begin herself in appeal on both abandon of the Atlantic.
Her abutting big activity was Woman on Top (2000), an American ball about a chef with adorable comestible abilities and a astringent case of motion sickness. While in the US, she additionally active up to brilliant adverse Johnny Depp in the drug-trafficking ball Blow (2001) and adverse Matt Damon in Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses (2000). Cruz says she's alert of actuality assort as a admirable adolescent damsel, but it's adamantine to brainstorm camouflage her believing charms and acceptable nature. Fortunately, with Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001) (a accommodate of Open Your Eyes (1997)) and a John Madden accord looming in her future, Babe Penelope isn't acceptable to abandon aloof yet.
