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
Elena Vidal
for Elena Vidal in L’Oro e l’Ebano (The Gold and the Ebony)
Suggested by mr95
Thirty-two years ago, the D’Agostino family—lords of the Italian luxury automotive world—shocked the Milanese aristocracy by adopting an orphaned infant during a business trip to West Africa. Raised as Lorenzo D’Agostino, the boy grew up in a world of private jets, renaissance art, and the heavy expectation to lead the family empire. Lorenzo is a master of Italian culture, a connoisseur of wine, and a brilliant engineer, yet he has always felt like a beautiful outsider in his own home. When a critical semiconductor shortage threatens the D’Agostino factory, a merger is proposed with the Vidal Group, a Spanish-Italian conglomerate that controls the raw materials. The price? A dynastic union between Lorenzo and the Vidal heiress, Isabella Vidal-Moretti. Isabella is a whirlwind of Spanish fire and Italian precision—a world-class equestrian who was promised to a different future. The wedding at a villa in Tuscany is a cold, spectacular affair. Their marriage begins as a "cold war" of two strangers forced into a bedroom they don't want to share. However, as they travel between the stables of Andalusia and the workshops of Milan, they discover a shared love for "The Soul of the Machine"—the art of craftsmanship and the thrill of the ride. In the quiet moments between high-stakes board meetings, a business deal slowly ignites into a deep, unbreakable bond.
