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Word has just come in that the reports which have been circling the web of Penelope Cruz hooking up with her sister in her brother's music video are false. Yes, Penelope is in fact swapping spit with another female in the video, but not with her sister Monica. Instead, the steamy scene is with actress Mia Maestro. You may recognize the Argentinean beauty from her role in Alias as Sidney's half-sister. Needless to say it's no wonder how the rumors began considering the uncanny resemblance between the two! read more
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Penelope Cruz and renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodovar collaborate for the third time in Volver. They have made a career of great films, but Volver is their best work yet. It is a story of reconciliation between a mother and daughter with a somewhat supernatural twist. Penelope is radiant on screen, while perhaps playing her most unglamorous role. Keep an eye out come Oscar time, Volver and Penelope will definitely be in the mix.
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Penélope Cruz Sánchez is the first Spanish actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress. She has been performing on screen, on TV and in the movies, since she was a toddler. By the 1990s Penelope Cruz was the leading lady of Spanish Cinema, dubbed the "Spanish enchantress." She has ... found success in Hollywood, starring in movies like Vanilla Sky, in which she played the same role she did in the successful Spanish original, Abre los ojos. Offscreen, Penelope Cruz has long been involved in humanitarian work. She and other Spanish celebrities set up the nonprofit Sabera Foundation, which helped homeless girls in Calcutta, and in 1997 volunteered for 2 months in Uganda. Starting in 2005 she has also been a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) partner, making public service announcements and advocating for support of WFP's work to help feed the 800 million people who face hunger and starvation and stop the deaths of 24,000 people who die each year because of hunger.
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Kicking off her thespian career in 1989, Cruz appeared in a series of high-profile music videos and TV shows before making her inevitable leap to the big screen. At 18, Cruz made an impressive film debut in the Spanish romantic-comedy “Jamón, jamón†(1992) directed by Bigas Luna. A big winner at the Venice Film Festival, “Jamón, jamón†was largely remembered today for Cruz’s nude scenes. In later interviews, Cruz would recall the experience of shooting the intense film as having been “psychologically scarring,†due to her youthful naiveté and inexperience. Cruz had far a better experience with her next project, the period romance, “Belle Époque†(1992). Directed by award-winning filmmaker Fernando Trueba, “Belle Époque†marked Cruz’s her first leading role as Luz, one of four sisters vying for the love of a handsome soldier.
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Cruz, 17, snags her first leading role as the lusty Sylvia in Bigas Lunas' art-house hit Jamón, Jamón (Ham Ham). After appearing topless in the film, Cruz becomes a major sex symbol. "It was a great part, but...I wasn't really ready for the nudity," Cruz tells L.A.'s Daily News in 1999. "But I have no regrets because I wanted to start working and it changed my life." She shows her versatility as the virginal Luz in Fernando Trueba's Oscar-winning Belle Epoque.
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Cruz ... made a brief and forgettable trip to the American shores, and accepted a role in a 1993 telepic, Framed, featuring Timothy Dalton. And then in Belle Époque, which won a 1994 foreign film Oscar. She then played what she deemed "the ugly woman" in Live Flesh and in Mother (1999), in which Cruz depicted a nun impregnated by a transvestite. She filmed La Niña de Tus Ojos (The Girl of Your Dreams), a role that would earn her a 1999 Best Actress Goya. She also appeared in the Hollywood feature, The Hi-Lo Country, with Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup.
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