Penelope Cruz
Actor
A sultry and sometimes playful Spanish actress,
Penelope Cruz became famous internationally when she played the motionsick heroine in the 2000 film
Woman on Top. She was already a star in Spain: she had a major role in the Oscarwinning 1992 film
Belle Epoque and then began a long association with the famed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Her films with Almodovar include
Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999) and Volver (2006). In Hollywood her most prominent roles have been in the westerns
The HiLo Country (1998) and All the Pretty Horses (with
Matt Damon, 2000), the druglord drama
Blow (with Johnny Depp, 2001) and
Vanilla Sky (2001), in which she costarred with her reallife boyfriend at the time,
Tom Cruise.
Extra credit: Cruz donated her salary from The HiLo Country to
Mother Teresa's charity... Cruz and Cruise dated from 2001 through 2004, when they announced through publicists that they were no longer a couple... Cruz is occasionally confused with the Mexican actress
Salma Hayek.
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