PENELOPE CRUZ "THE DESIRABLE DREAM OF EVERYMAN"

Penelope Cruz was born on 28 April, 1974 and she debuted her acting career at the age of 16. She's a famous Spanish actress. She first worked on the television screen, and after one and a half year in 1995, her first film "Jamon, Jamon" was released and audience liked it a lot. She had many famous films during this century in which "The Hi-Lo Country", "Open Your Eyes", "Woman On Top" and "The Girl of Your Dreams" are included. In 2001, two of her films were released "Vanilla Sky" and "Blow", she performed the main roles in these films. She was counted in the most versatile actresses after it because she didn't keep herself locked in choosy roles. She performed a comedy role in movie "Waking Up In Reno". "Gothika" was her thriller film, but "Sahara" was full of adventure. Audience amused her for her acting abilities in movies "Volver" and "Nine". She was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Oscar Award for this film. In 2008, she won Oscar award for the Best Supporting Actress in film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". She was the first Spanish actress who won this award. She is the first Spanish actress who have carved her name on the famous foot path of Hollywood "Walk Of Fame". She has also done modelling for some famous brands besides acting.

                 Her full name is Penelope Cruz Sanchez. She was born in Spain's city Madrid. Her father and mother both worked. Her mother was a hair dresser and also used to work as a Principal manager at some office. Father was a shopkeeper and also a motor mechanic. She has a brother and a sister and Penelope is the older one. Her brother Edwardo is a signer whereas her sister is an actress named Monica. According to Penelope Cruz, she started acting at the age of fourth. She was playing with twelve children and she began performing a role in front of them for a play. Afters some time she realized that she was acting and she still remember it very well. The most fascinating is she didn't want to be an actress neither she wished for it. She wanted to be a dancer and she also took lessons at Classical Belle dance till nine years. She was so fond of dancing even she didn't feel the pain of her nails which broke out from her skin. Though dancing didn't give her anything which could give some advantages to her, but the discipline she learned from it was so helpful in her acting career. She had become fond of movies at the age of twelve, but she couldn't watch movies on the cinemas because she lived in a town of Madrid which was like a village. It didn't have any cinemas house in their town, but her father brought her a machine named "Betamax". They could watch movies on that. Penelope thought of acting after watching a film on that machine "Tie Me Down, Tie Me Up". She contracted an agent woman who hired new faces for televisions and films. She got her back three times. According to that woman, Penelope was a girl and she wasn't appropriate to work in a film, but Penelope didn't leave her alone and she visited her office day by day. At the age of fifteen, Penelope succeeded to defeat 300 girls in her first audition and amazed everyone. She worked in her first music video at the age of fifteen. She also hosted a Spanish show during 1990 to 1997.

                    In the beginning time of her film career, Penelope was counted in those actresses who used to called "sex symbols" by the audience, but she quickly left this symbol and used to called in versatile actresses. She also worked in many Spanish and Italian movies. Years from 2001 to 2005 was successful for Penelope's fame and after 2006 she has become famous all over the world. According to a famous internet website survey, she was at the 7th place in the list of Most Loving Women of 2010. Penelope has also worked in various NGO's in Nepal and India and she has also funded huge amount. She also spent one week with Anjali Chaurasia the mother teresa of Calcutta. She also organized a NGO after meeting some homeless women because of that

she takes full responsibility of two women's house and cost every year. She gave her film "The Hi-Lo Country" permutation to mother teresa as a fund. Penelope Cruz is the owner of a big store in Madrid, and she also designs handbags and jewelry with her sister. She was with in relation with famous Spain's director Pedro Almodovar, but during this time she was also friend with Tom Cruise for three years. They started meeting each other after the shooting of movie "Vanilla Sky" which was the remake of film "Open Your Eyes". She also had relations with Spain's actor Javier Barden and they got married at their friend's house in 2010 which is still going on very well. She had a baby in 2011 and rumors also telling that she's also expecting in 2013.