Biography: life and films
Penélope Cruz is a Spanish actress whose birth name is Penélope Cruz Sánchez. She was born in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain on 28th April 1974.Her best films as an actor include Alejandro Amenábar's thriller Abre los ojos (1997), Maria Ripoll's If Only... (1998), Ted Demme's Blow (2001), Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006) and Menno Meyjes's The Passion Within (2008).
Penélope Cruz has so far appeared in 54 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Pedro Almodóvar (5 films), Woody Allen (2), Sergio Castellitto (2), Rob Marshall (2), Menno Meyjes (2), Fernando Trueba (2), Fernando Colomo (2), Bigas Luna (2) and Álvaro Fernández Armero (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (24 films), romance (17), comedy-romance (13), comedy (13), comedy-drama (11), Thriller (8), Fantasy (4), Western (3), War (3), history (2), crime-thriller (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Penélope Cruz over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Belle epoque (1992) [a]
Jamon Jamon (1992) [a]
El Laberinto griego (1993) [a]
La Ribelle (1993) [a]
Per amore, solo per amore (1993) [a]
Alegre ma non troppo (1994) [a]
Todo es mentira (1994) [a]
El Efecto mariposa (1995) [a]
Entre rojas (1995) [a]
Brujas (1996) [a]
El Amor perjudica seriamente la salud (1996) [a]
La Celestina (1996) [a]
Más que amor, frenesí (1996) [a]
Abre los ojos (1997) [a]
Don Juan (1998) [a]
La Niña de tus ojos (1998) [a]
Talk of Angels (1998) [a]
The Hi-Lo Country (1998) [a]
The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998) [a]
Todo sobre mi madre (1999) [a]
Volavérunt (1999) [a]
All the Pretty Horses (2000) [a]
Woman on Top (2000) [a]
Blow (2001) [a]
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) [a]
Sin noticias de Dios (2001) [a]
Vanilla Sky (2001) [a]
Waking Up in Reno (2002) [a]
Gothika (2003) [a]
Masked and Anonymous (2003) [a]
Head in the Clouds (2004) [a]
Noel (2004) [a]
Non ti muovere (2004) [a]
Chromophobia (2005) [a]
Sahara (2005) [a]
Bandidas (2006) [a]
Volver (2006) [a]
Manolete (2007) [a]
The Good Night (2007) [a]
Elegy (2008) [a]
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) [a]
G-Force (2009) [a]
Los Abrazos rotos (2009) [a]
Nine (2009) [a]
Sex and the City 2 (2010) [a]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) [a]
To Rome with Love (2012) [a]
Venuto al mondo (2012) [a]
Los amantes pasajeros (2013) [a]
The Counselor (2013) [a]
Ma ma (2015) [a]
Grimsby (2016) [a]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The best French Films of the 1910s
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
