Penélope Cruz filmography

Penélope Cruz (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Woody Allen comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).^[1] She is the first and only Spanish actress to both win and be nominated for an Academy Award in an acting category.^[2] She also was Oscar-nominated for her roles in the drama Volver (2006), the romance musical Nine (2009), and the melodrama Parallel Mothers (2021).

Cruz at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

She made her acting debut at the age of 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in the romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Belle époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). During this time she gained acclaim for her numerous collaborations with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar in Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021). For her role in Volver she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 59th Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Cruz achieved greater international recognition for her lead roles in Hollywood films such as the psychological thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), the crime drama Blow (2001), the action-adventure Sahara (2005), the fantasy adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), the crime thriller The Counselor (2013), the murder mystery Murder on the Orient Express (2017), and the sports drama Ferrari (2023). She has also worked in with auteur directors acting in independent films such as the drama Elegy (2008), the romantic comedy To Rome with Love (2012), the mystery Everybody Knows (2018), the spy thriller Wasp Network (2019) the satirical comedy Official Competition (2021), and the coming-of-age drama L'immensità (2022).

She portrayed as fashion designer Donatella Versace in the FX limited series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.^[4]

Acting credits

Film

Cruz attending an event for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

Cruz attending the premiere of Twice Born at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1992	Jamón, jamón	Silvia		[5]
	Belle époque	Luz		[6]
1993	For Love, Only for Love	Mary	Per amore, solo per amore	[7]
	The Greek Labyrinth	Elise	El Laberinto griego	[8]
	The Rebel	Enza	La Ribelle	[9]
1994	Alegre ma non troppo	Salomé		[10]
	Todo es mentira	Lucía		[11]
1995	Entre rojas	Lucía		[12]
1996	La Celestina	Melibea		[13]
	Brujas	Patricia		[14]
	Not Love, Just Frenzy	Laura	Más que amor, frenesí	[15]
1997	Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health	Diana	El amor perjudica seriamente la salud	[16]
	Open Your Eyes	Sofia	Abre los ojos	[17]
	Live Flesh	Isabel Plaza Caballero	Carne trémula	[18]
	Et hjørne af paradis	Helena
1998	The Girl of Your Dreams	Macarena	La niña de tus ojos	[19]
	Talk of Angels	Pilar		[20]
	The Hi-Lo Country	Josepha		[20]
	Don Juan	Mathurine		[20]
1999	All About My Mother	Maria Rosa Sanz	Todo sobre mi madre	[21]
	The Man with Rain in His Shoes	Louise		[22]
	Volavérunt	Pepita Tudó / la Maja		[23]
2000	All the Pretty Horses	Alejandra Villarreal		[20]
	Woman on Top	Isabella Oliveira		[20]
2001	Blow	Mirtha Jung		[20]
	Don't Tempt Me	Carmen Ramos	Bendito infierno	[20]
	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	Pelagia		[20]
	Vanilla Sky	Sofia Serrano	American adaptation of Abre los ojos	[20]
2002	Waking Up in Reno	Brenda		[20]
2003	Fanfan la Tulipe	Adeline la Franchise		[20]
	Masked and Anonymous	Pagan Lace		[20]
	Gothika	Chloe Sava		[20]
2004	Head in the Clouds	Mia		[20]
	Noel	Nina Vasquez		[20]
	Don't Move	Italia	Non ti muovere	[20]
2005	Sahara	Eva Rojas		[20]
	Chromophobia	Gloria		[20]
2006	Bandidas	Maria Alvarez		[20]
	Volver	Raimunda		[20]
2007	Manolete	Antonita Sino		[20]
	The Good Night	Anna		[20]
2008	Elegy	Consuela Castillo		[24]
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Maria Elena		[25]
2009	G-Force	Juarez	Voice only	[20]
	Broken Embraces	Magdalena	Los abrazos rotos	[26]
	Nine	Carla Albanese		[27]
2010	Sex and the City 2	Carmen García Carrión		[20]
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Angelica		[20]
2012	To Rome with Love	Anna		[28]
	Twice Born	Gemma	Venuto al mondo	[20]
2013	I'm So Excited!	Jessica	Los amantes pasajeros	[20]
	The Counselor	Laura		[20]
2014	The Boxtrolls	Winnie Portley-Rind	Voice only (Spanish dub)	[20]
2015	Ma Ma	Magda		[20]
2016	Zoolander 2	Valentina Valencia		[20]
	Grimsby	Rhonda George		[20]
	The Queen of Spain	Macarena Granada	La reina de España	[20]
2017	Loving Pablo	Virginia Vallejo		[29]
	Murder on the Orient Express	Pilar Estravados		[30]
2018	Everybody Knows	Laura	Todos lo saben	[31]
2019	Pain and Glory	Jacinta	Dolor y gloria	[32]
	Wasp Network	Olga Gonzalez		[33]
2021	Parallel Mothers	Janis Martínez Moreno	Madres paralelas	[34]
	Official Competition	Lola Cuevas	Competencia oficial	[35]
2022	The 355	Graciela Rivera		[36]
	L'immensità	Clara		[37]
	On the Fringe	Azucena	Also producer; En los márgenes	[38]
2023	Ferrari	Laura Ferrari		[39]
2025	The Bride! †	Myrna	Filming	[40]

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Softly from Paris	Javotte	Série rose; Episode: "Elle et lui"
1992	Framed	Lola Del Moreno	3 episodes
2018	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Donatella Versace	5 episodes; main role
2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	Prince Humperdinck / Princess Buttercup	Episode: "Chapter Nine: Have Fun Storming The Castle!"

References

1. "Penélope Cruz - Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
2. Zeidler, Sue (22 February 2009). "Penelope Cruz wins first Oscar for Spanish actress". Reuters. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
3. "CANNES '06 WINNERS: Loach Film Wins Palme d'Or, "Volver" Wins 2 Prizes". IndieWire. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
4. "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Nominees 2018". Television Academy. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
5. Benavent 2000, p. 315.
6. Benavent 2000, p. 112.
7. "For Love, Only for Love". MUBI. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
8. Benavent 2000, p. 325.
9. "The Rebel (1993)". MUBI. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
10. Benavent 2000, p. 58.
11. Benavent 2000, p. 590.
12. Benavent 2000, p. 242.
13. Benavent 2000, p. 154.
14. Benavent 2000, p. 125.
15. "Not Love, Just Frenzy". MUBI. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
16. Benavent 2000, p. 69.
17. Benavent 2000, p. 41.
18. Benavent 2000, p. 144.
19. Benavent 2000, p. 414.
20. "Penélope Cruz - IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
21. Benavent 2000, p. 593.
22. Benavent 2000, p. 349.
23. Benavent 2000, p. 621.
24. "Elegy movie review: May I see you after class?". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
25. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
26. "Almodóvar's Happy Agony, Swirling Amid Jealousy and Revenge". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
27. "'Nine': Creatively Blocked, But Still Putting On A Show". NPR. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
28. "Review: To Rome with Love". Film Comment. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
29. "'Loving Pablo' review: You'll love Penélope Cruz as Escobar's mistress in this melodrama". AZcentral. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
30. "'Murder on the Orient Express': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
31. "Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem star together in Everybody Knows". The Independent. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
32. "Pain and Glory stars Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas reuniting for new movie". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
33. "Netflix Scoops Olivier Assayas's 'Wasp Network' With Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
34. "'Parallel Mothers' Review: Pedro Almodóvar's Best Since 'All About My Mother'". Variety. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
35. "Official Competition review – Penélope Cruz is a deadpan dream in wicked film-world satire". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
36. "Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong'o in 'The 355': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
37. ""L'immensità", di Emanuele Crialese". RAI Cultura. 2 August 2022.
38. Ide, Wendy (6 September 2022). "'On The Fringe': Venice Review". ScreenDaily.
39. Stern, Marlow (31 August 2023). "'Ferrari' Boasts an Oscar-Worthy Penélope Cruz and Some Very Sexy Cars". Rolling Stone.
40. "Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride Of Frankenstein cut by Netflix but still alive". Film Stories. Retrieved 5 June 2024.

Bibliography

• Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.