Penelope Cruz
Birth28 April 1974
BirthplaceMadrid, Spain
A sultry and sometimes playful Spanish actress, Penelope Cruz became famous internationally when she played the motion-sick heroine in the 1999 film Woman on Top. She had a starring role in the Oscar-winning 1992 film Belle Epoque and worked twice with famed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, on Live Flesh (1998) and All About My Mother (1999). Once in Hollywood, her most prominent American roles were in All the Pretty Horses (with Matt Damon, 2000), Blow (with Johnny Depp, 2001) and 2001's Vanilla Sky, co-starring with her real-life boyfriend at the time, Tom Cruise.