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Penelope Cruz: Roles
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In 2006, Cruz received highly favourable reviews for her performance in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver. She won a Best Actress ensemble award at the Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award. She is the first Spanish Actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.[6]
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In 1998, Cruz had her first starring role in an English-language film, playing Billy Crudup's Mexican-American love interest in Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country. She had another go at English later that year in the Spanish-British romantic comedy Twice Upon a Yesterday, which cast her as a Spanish barmaid living in London.
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"A tape appeared on my desk," says The Hi-Lo Country director Stephen Frears, who cast Penelope in her first major English-speaking role. "I went and looked at it, and there was Venus. She's absolutely gorgeous. And very, very good, too."
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