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Penelope Cruz: Tom Cruise
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In early 2001, Penelope Cruz appeared in the film Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, which sparked a supposed three-year relationship with the actor. Vanilla Sky was the Hollywood remake of Abre los Ojos ("Open Your Eyes"), and Penelope played the same part in both films.
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LOS ANGELES — Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz have ended their three-year relationship. The couple, who spent long periods apart while filming, “broke up at the end of January and it’s amicable,” said Lee Anne DeVette, Cruise’s sister and publicist.
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Like any starlet, Cruz ran right out and completely spent all of her first official Tinseltown paycheck. Unlike any starlet... she donated those earnings to Mother Theresa's children's sanctuary in Calcutta, India, where she had briefly volunteered. It was Cruz's physical beauty that secured her next upcoming major motion picture outing, as Johnny Depp's drug-addicted wife, in Blow (2001). She's spent the beginning of the new millennium in Greece as Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale vie for her affections in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Meanwhile, her name has been paired with the other world-famous Cruise (Tom, but of course) to complete director-screenwriter Cameron Crowe's next pic, Vanilla Sky.
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Cameron Crowe's reworking of the 1997 Spanish film "Open Your Eyes" stars Tom Cruise as a charming, wealthy magazine publisher who thinks he's found the perfect woman in Penelope Cruz (who starred in the original), a beautiful Spanish dancer. Cruise's happiness is shattered when he and obsessed former lover Cameron Diaz are in a car accident that disfigures him and kills her. While recovering, Cruise seeks help from psychiatrist Kurt Russell, as he tries to discern what in his increasingly ominous life is reality and what is fantasy. With Jason Lee, Noah Taylor. 135 min
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The next two years would prove to be a critical turning point in both Cruz's personal and professional life, with increasingly visible roles in large-scale Hollywood productions as well as a developing relationship with one Tinseltown's most popular leading men. Gaining notice for her roles in All the Pretty Horses in 2000 and Blow the following year, it appeared as if Cruz's career had suddenly kicked into overdrive. After starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the underperforming Captain Corelli's Mandolin in 2001, Cruz dove back into familiar territory with director Cameron Crowe's remake of Abre los Ojos, Vanilla Sky (2001). Developing a close relationship with lead Tom Cruise as his much publicized breakup with Nicole Kidman drew to a close, the pair soon found themselves the center of considerable paparazzi attention as they became Hollywood's hottest new couple.
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Penélope Cruz has been acting for years, but she's never been the center of the American spotlight until now. This week she showed up at her new film's premiere with the oh-so recently divorced Tom Cruise.
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