Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz is a Spanish actress born in 1974 who works in both Spanish and English-language cinema. She began on television at sixteen and made her feature film debut in Jamón Jamón in 1992. She has appeared in seven films directed by Pedro Almodóvar, among them Live Flesh, All About My Mother, Volver, Broken Embraces and Parallel Mothers, and she has also produced some of her own films. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona and has been nominated for Volver, Nine and Parallel Mothers. Her wider filmography includes Vanilla Sky, Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Murder on the Orient Express, and on television she played Donatella Versace in an FX miniseries. Outside acting she has modelled and been a brand ambassador for Chanel.