Penelope Cruz

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

Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)
98%
Woody Allen: A Documentary
95%
Belle Epoque (The Age of Beauty)
94%
Volver
92%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
22%	Ma ma	Magda Producer	—	2016
36%	The Brothers Grimsby	Rhonda George	—	2016
23%	Zoolander 2	Valentina	$29.8M	2016
50%	The Queen of Spain (La reina de España)	Actor	—	2016
17%	Twice Born	Gemma	$15.4k	2013
35%	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
44%	To Rome with Love	Anna	$16.6M	2012
No Score Yet	Looking Back on Love: Making Black and White America	Actor	—	2012
32%	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Angelica	$241.1M	2011
95%	Woody Allen: A Documentary	Actor	—	2011
15%	Sex and the City 2	Carmen Garcia Carrion	$95.4M	2010
38%	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
75%	Elegy	Consuela Castillo	$3.5M	2008
31%	The Good Night	Anna	—	2007
No Score Yet	Hispanic Hollywood - Then and Now	Actor	—	2007
92%	Volver	Raimunda	$12.9M	2006
62%	Bandidas	Maria Alvarez	—	2006
No Score Yet	Viva Pedro	Actor	$0.5M	2006
31%	Chromophobia	Gloria	—	2005
39%	Sahara	Eva Rojas	$68.7M	2005
No Score Yet	Celestina	Actor	—	2005
46%	Don't Move	Italia	—	2004
15%	Head in the Clouds	Mia	$0.2M	2004
29%	Noel	Nina	—	2004
14%	Gothika	Chloe Sava	$59.6M	2003
38%	Sin noticias de Dios (Don't Tempt Me)	Carmen Ramos	—	2003
24%	Masked and Anonymous	Pagan Lace	$0.2M	2003
17%	Fanfan La Tulipe	Adeline La Franchise	—	2003
13%	Waking Up in Reno	Brenda	—	2002
42%	Vanilla Sky	Sofia Serrano	—	2001
29%	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%	Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)	Hermana Rosa	—	1999
No Score Yet	Volavérunt	The Maja (Pepita Tudo)	—	1999
56%	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
94%	Belle Epoque (The Age of Beauty)	Luz	—	1992
64%	Jamón Jamón	Silvia	—	1991

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Charlie Rose 2013	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

Quotes from Penelope Cruz's 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.

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

Sofia Serrano:

I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.

Sofia Serrano:

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.