Penélope Cruz celebrates 50 yearsof which thirty three past in front of the camera where he made his debut at just 17 years old Ham, Ham. The sexy comedy by Bigas Luna on whose set she met her future husband and father of her two children (Leonardo and Luna), Xavier Bardem. Muse of Almodovar (7 films), will become an international star with All about My Mother from 1999. But it is Woody Allen what will make her there first Spanish actress to win an Oscar with Vicky Cristina Barcelona, ten years later. With our Sergio Castellittohe made two films Do not move of 2004 and Came to the world of 2012: the first earned her the Donatello’s David. To think that as a teenager, Penélope chased the dream of becoming a dancer.
Daughter of a mechanic and a hairdresser, the Madonna of Madrid (as known in her homeland), studied classical dance for nine years at the Royal Conservatory of the capital, but upon arriving in New York she fell in love with the theater and enrolled in Cristina Rota’s acting school. Over the course of her extraordinary career, Penélope discovered Buddhism and the importance of learning English. Glamor on the red carpet, the Hispanic diva chooses Maison Chanel without giving up wearing other great designers.
Cruz is also an activist and ambassador for various charitable organizations. She distinguished herself, for the first time, in 1998 by donating the entire fee from her first Hollywood film to Mother Teresa’s mission in Calcutta, where she had stayed a few years earlier. On her important birthday, we want to celebrate the Spanish diva with 10 things you perhaps don’t know about her: since when she played at being a stylist with her sister Monica until to the “amicable” breakup with Tom Cruise.
The name «Penélope»
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The name of the Spanish diva is inspired by Joan Manuel Serrat’s 1969 song of the same name.
The “scars” of dancing times
Before starting acting, the diva studied ballet for almost ten years, and her “battle scars” prove it. She once told Time that she had crooked toes, acquired during her ballet days when she trained, so much so that they bled. Cruz admitted that the concentration and self-control required in dance, however, proved crucial to her acting career.
The love of cinema
She was struck by the world of cinema, after seeing it in 1989 Tie me up! of future mentor Pedro Almodóvar. When he was ten years old, his father bought a Betamax machine which was then quite rare in the neighborhood of his hometown, Alcobendas.
The linguistic limits of the beginning
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