Penelope Cruz

Highest Rated: 98% All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) (1999)

Lowest Rated: 13% Waking Up in Reno (2002)

Birthday: Apr 28, 1974

Birthplace: Madrid, Spain

Parents named her after the song "Penelope," by famed Spanish singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat. Studied ballet at Spain's Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. Is expert at cutting and coloring hair, skills acquired in her mother's hairdressing salon. Volunteered at Mother Theresa's mission in Calcutta in the mid-1990s. Donated her salary from the film The Hi-Lo Country to the late nun's children's charity. Won a Goya, the Spanish Oscar, for the 1999 film The Girl of Your Dreams and Italy's highest film honor, the David di Donatello, for 2004's Don't Move. Welcomed her first child, a son, with husband Javier Bardem in January 2011.

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Highest Rated Movies

All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
98%
Belle Epoque (The Age of Beauty)
95%
Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)
92%
Volver
91%

Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
92%	Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)	Jacinta	—	2019
79%	Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben)	Laura	—	2019
No Score Yet	Wasp Network	Actor	—	2019
32%	Loving Pablo	Virginia Vallejo	—	2018
59%	Murder On The Orient Express	Pilar Estravados	$101.6M	2017
31%	The Queen of Spain (La reina de España)	Producer Macarena Granada	—	2017
25%	Ma ma	Magda Producer	—	2016
38%	The Brothers Grimsby	Rhonda George	—	2016
22%	Zoolander 2	Valentina	$29.8M	2016
17%	Twice Born	Gemma	$15.4K	2013
34%	The Counselor	Laura	$14.7M	2013
48%	I'm So Excited!	Jessica	$1.4M	2013
No Score Yet	The Counsellor	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Per Amore, Solo Per Amore	Actor	—	2013
45%	To Rome with Love	Anna	$16.6M	2012
No Score Yet	Looking Back on Love: Making Black and White America	Actor	—	2012
33%	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Angelica	$241.1M	2011
90%	Woody Allen: A Documentary	Actor	—	2011
16%	Sex and the City 2	Carmen Garcia Carrion	$95.4M	2010
40%	Nine	Carla	$19.7M	2009
81%	Broken Embraces	Lena	$5M	2009
No Score Yet	A Matador's Mistress (Manolete)	Lupe Sino	—	2009
22%	G-Force	Juarez	$119.5M	2009
No Score Yet	La concejala antropófaga (The Cannibalistic Councillor)	Actor	—	2009
81%	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Maria Elena	$23.2M	2008
74%	Elegy	Consuela Castillo	$3.5M	2008
31%	The Good Night	Anna	—	2007
No Score Yet	Hispanic Hollywood - Then and Now	Actor	—	2007
91%	Volver	Raimunda	$12.9M	2006
62%	Bandidas	Maria Alvarez	—	2006
No Score Yet	Viva Pedro	Actor	$0.5M	2006
31%	Chromophobia	Gloria	—	2005
38%	Sahara	Eva Rojas	$68.7M	2005
No Score Yet	Celestina	Actor	—	2005
46%	Don't Move	Italia	—	2004
16%	Head in the Clouds	Mia	$0.2M	2004
28%	Noel	Nina	—	2004
14%	Gothika	Chloe Sava	$59.6M	2003
38%	Sin noticias de Dios (Don't Tempt Me)	Carmen Ramos	—	2003
25%	Masked and Anonymous	Pagan Lace	$0.2M	2003
14%	Fanfan La Tulipe	Adeline La Franchise	—	2003
13%	Waking Up in Reno	Brenda	—	2002
42%	Vanilla Sky	Sofia Serrano	—	2001
28%	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Pelagia	$25.3M	2001
55%	Blow	Mirtha	—	2001
32%	All the Pretty Horses	Alejandra	$14.8M	2000
34%	Woman on Top	Isabella	$4.6M	2000
No Score Yet	Framed	Actor	—	1999
85%	Open Your Eyes (Abre los Ojos)	Sofia	—	1999
98%	All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)	Hermana Rosa	—	1999
No Score Yet	Volavérunt	The Maja (Pepita Tudo)	—	1999
54%	The Hi-Lo Country	Josepha O'Neil	—	1998
No Score Yet	Talk of Angels	Pilar	—	1998
29%	The Man with Rain in His Shoes (Twice Upon a Yesterday)	Louise	—	1998
No Score Yet	Don Juan	Mathurine	—	1998
80%	Live Flesh (Carne trémula)	Isabel Plaza Caballero	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Girl of Your Dreams	Macarena Granada	—	1998
No Score Yet	Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health	Diana Balaguer As A Young Woman	—	1997
No Score Yet	La Celestina	Melibea	—	1996
No Score Yet	Brujas	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	Not Love Just Frenzy	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	El Efecto Mariposa	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	La Ribelle (The Rebel)	Enza	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Greek Labyrinth	Actor	—	1993
95%	Belle Epoque (The Age of Beauty)	Luz	—	1992
64%	Jamón Jamón	Silvia	—	1991

TV

		CREDIT
92%	American Crime Story 2016-2018	Donatella Versace	2018
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2018
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2018 2009 2006 2005
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013-2017	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The Graham Norton Show 2007	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2016 2015
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Guest	2012 2011 2009 2001 2000
No Score Yet	The Jay Leno Show 2009-2010	Guest	2009

QUOTES FROM Penelope Cruz CHARACTERS

Maria Elena

You're still searching for me in every woman.

Laura	The truth has no temperature.
Malkina	The truth has no temperature.

Alejandra

I didn't know that my father could stop lovin' me. I didn't know that he could. Now I know.

Maria Elena	You speak no Spanish?
Cristina	No ,I uh-uh studied Chinese.
Maria Elena	Chinese? Why?
Cristina	I thought it sounded pretty.
Maria Elena	Say something in Chinese.
Cristina	Me?
Maria Elena	Mmm-hmm
Cristina	Um... ni hao ma?
Maria Elena	You think that sounds pretty?

Sofia Serrano	What is your nickname?
David Aames	Citizen Dildo.

Raimunda	Are there things I should know and don't?
Sole	Oodles.

Raimunda

[to self] It smells of... farts, my mother's farts.

Alejandra

I have no honor but my promise. If I lose that, what am I?

Alejandra

I didn't know that my father could stop loving me. I didn't know that he could. Now I know.

Angelica	What were you doing in a Spanish convent anyway?
Captain Jack Sparrow	Mistook it for a brothel. An honest mistake.

Louise

Every time I come here, I feel like there's somebody else in the house., and i don't know what happened to you. and you've never wanted to tell me. But I can't compete with a ghost.

Louise

Don't look for this years birds in last years nest. It's from Don Quixote.

Sofia Serrano	I'll see you in another life, when we are both cats
Sofia Serrano	I'll see you in another life, when we are both cats.

David Aames	look at us, I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you
David Aames	Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you. SofÃa: It's a problem. David: I lost you ...
David Aames	Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you.
Sofia Serrano	It's a problem.
David Aames	I lost you...

Sofia Serrano

I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.

Timoteo	There is no god my love.
Italia	I wish we had one.

Anna	I am here to fulfill your dreams.

Maria Elena

Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.

Angelica	Jack, have you ever seen with your own eyes....the Fountain of Youth?
Captain Jack Sparrow	I'm sorry, could you repeat the question please?

Chloe Sava	You can't trust someone who thinks your crazy
Chloe Sava	You can't trust someone who thinks your crazy.

Chloe Sava	"He said you're next"
Chloe Sava	He said you're next.

Captain Jack Sparrow	How can you say I used you?
Angelica	You know exactly how.
Captain Jack Sparrow	I know, but how can you say it?

Chloe Sava	i split his Adams apple like a fruit on a summers day
Chloe Sava	I cut his Adam's apple in half... like a piece of fruit on a summer day.

Angelica	Remember, Father, we need him.
Angelica	Remember father, we need him.
Blackbeard	If I don't kill a man every now and then they forget who I am.
Blackbeard	If I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am!

Angelica	Maybe you don't believe the supernatural
Angelica	Maybe you don't believe the supernatural.
Captain Jack Sparrow	"Oh no, I've seen a thing or two
Captain Jack Sparrow	Oh no, I've seen a thing or two.

Captain Jack Sparrow	The fountain of youth, what does it require?
Angelica	A mermaid, Jack
Angelica	A mermaid, Jack.

Captain Jack Sparrow	you walk like a girl.
Captain Jack Sparrow	You walk like a girl.
Angelica	you would know.
Angelica	You would know.

Angelica	How come we can never meet without you pointing something at me.
Angelica	How is it we can never meet without you pointing something at me?

Angelica

Why is it that we can never meet without you pointing something at me?!

Angelica	[@ Captain Jack Sparrow] "Why is it we can never meet without you pointing something at me?"
Angelica	[@ Captain Jack Sparrow] Why is it we can never meet without you pointing something at me?

Captain Jack Sparrow	Have you been to the fountain of youth???
Angelica	Have you been to the fountain of youth?
Captain Jack Sparrow	Have you been to the fountain of youth?
Captain Teague	Does this face look like it's been to the fountain of youth..??
Captain Teague	Does this face look like it's been to the fountain of youth?

Captain Jack Sparrow	"You walk like a girl!"
Captain Jack Sparrow	You walk like a girl!
Angelica	"You would know."
Angelica	You would know.

Angelica	Why is it that we can never meet without you pointing something sharp at me?
Angelica	Why is it that we can never meet without you pointing something at me?

Angelica

How is it we can never meet without you pointing something at me?

Angelica	I am starting to think you don't know where you are going
Angelica	I am starting to think you don't know where you are going.
Captain Jack Sparrow	Its not the destination so much as the journey
Captain Jack Sparrow	Its not the destination so much as the journey.

Captain Jack Sparrow	The fountain of youth, what does it require?
Angelica	A Mermaid, Jack.

Angelica	That's hardly appropriate for the first mate.
Captain Jack Sparrow	Was I the first?

Angelica	What were you doing in a Spanish Convent, anyway?
Captain Jack Sparrow	Looking for a brothel. Honest mistake.
Captain Jack Sparrow	Mistook it for a brothel. Honest mistake.