Penelope Cruz
Penelope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez, known professionally as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress and model. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamónto critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes, The Hi-Lo Country, The Girl of Your Dreamsand Woman on Top. Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky, All the...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 April 1974
CityAlcobendas, Spain
CountrySpain
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.
I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.
I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.
I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
I love ballet and I love dancing...... It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - It's really hard, but much more fun.
He can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never!
I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.