Penelope Cruz Sanchez

Penelope Cruz Sanchez was the daughter of Eduardo Cruz (a retailer) and Encarna Sanchez (a hairdresser). When she was a toddler she was an obsessed performer, and would reenact commercials from the television to entertain of her family. But, she decided to concentrate on dance. After nine years of ballet classes at Spain's National Conservatory she was able to continue her dance training under the tutelage of a number of famous dancers. At 15, however she discovered her true call when she topped over 300 other girls in an audition for a talent agency. She was offered roles on Spanish TV and music videos. This resulted in a variety of roles, and opened the doors to a successful career on the world of big screens. Cruz made her film debut in 1993's The Greek Labyrinth (The Greek Labyrinth). After that, she briefly made an appearance in Framed (1992), a Timothy Dalton thriller. The third film she starred in, Belle Epoque (1992) was an Oscar-winning movie in which she was one of the four sisters fighting to win the heart of an attractive deserter army soldier. The film has won numerous Goyas, Spanish equivalent of Academy Awards. Her resume continued to grow by 3-4 films per year. Soon Cruz was an established star 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 Best Actress Goya. Cruz made a few more ventures into film in the English language, 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 across the Atlantic as well as the west coast, as the film received numerous awards and awards. Woman on Top (2000) was her next major project. It was an American comedy about a chef with extraordinary culinary skills and the dreadful motion sickness. While she was in America,






 




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