Age: 52
female
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, her accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a David di Donatello and three Goya Awards. Cruz made her television acting debut at age 16, and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles included Belle Époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), Don Juan (1998), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). She collaborated with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar in Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021). For her role in Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Cruz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other Oscar-nominated roles are in Volver (2006), Nine(2009), and Parallel Mothers (2021). Other films include Vanilla Sky (2001), Blow (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), The Counselor (2013), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Everybody Knows (2018), Official Competition (2022), L'immensità (2022), and Ferrari (2023). For her role as Donatella Versace in the miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She is the only Spanish actress to have won an Academy Award and to have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2007, she won the David di Donatello for the leading role in Don't Move. Cruz has also modelled for Mango, Ralph Lauren, and L'Oréal, and has designed clothing for Mango with her younger sister, Mónica Cruz. She has been a house ambassador for Chanel since 2018. She volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent one week working with Mother Teresa, and donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund the now-deceased nun's mission. Description above from the Wikipedia article Penélope Cruz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Penélope Cruz
Dr. Monica Rappaccini
for Dr. Monica Rappaccini in Ant-Man and the Wasp: READY! A.I.M! FIRE!
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Many years ago, a brilliant scientist by the name of George Tarleton studied genetics in grad school, primarily focusing on the human brain. While attending, he met two other brilliant scientists, Monica Rappaccini and Hank Pym. The three developed a close bond until they finished grad school when they started to grow apart. From there, Hank went on to start his own company P.Y.M Tech as well as working closely with the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D, whilst George and Monica formed the scientific organisation known as the Advanced Idea Mechanics or A.I.M for short. George had hoped to use A.I.M’s resources to expand the human brain. He had felt that the brain had limits and George wanted to exceed them, so he began working on ways to expand them. George expressed his idea to Monica. Eventually, George managed to convince Monica to go ahead with his project and after many months, George had tested his experimental serum on himself. However, the serum begins to alter him as his head grows larger in size, expanding the jar, gaining an increased intelligence. Monica designed a special chair for George after finding him the next day. He began to change himself as he grew beyond human limitations; he was now M.O.D.O.K (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing). The two helped A.I.M grow, until they gained the attention of HYDRA. With their aid, the two became one of the world’s leading scientists, due to Monica and M.O.D.O.K’s work together.
