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123-524: Isabel Coixet was born in Sant Adrià del Besòs next to Barcelona on 9 April 1960. She started filming when she was given an 8 mm camera on the occasion of her First Communion. After obtaining a BA degree in history at Barcelona University, where she majored in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century History, she worked in advertising and spot writing for the cinema magazine Fotogramas . She continued in

246-922: A Primetime Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards . Cruz made her acting debut on television at 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 is known for her frequent collaborations 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

369-403: A cinephile at ten or eleven, her father bought a Betamax machine, which was then quite rare in her neighborhood. As a teenager, Cruz became interested in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar . She did casting calls for an agent but was rejected several times because the agent felt that she was too young. Cruz commented on

492-469: A guinea pig spy named Juarez. G-Force was a commercial success, making over $ 290 million worldwide. Also in 2009, she appeared in the film Broken Embraces as Lena. Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com noted in her review for the film that Cruz "doesn't coast on her beauty in Broken Embraces , and she has the kind of role that can be difficult to flesh out". Cruz received nominations from

615-631: A spokesmodel for French cosmetics company L'Oréal to promote products such as the L'Oréal Paris hair dye Natural Match and L'Oreal mascara products. She receives $ 2 million a year for her work for the company. Cruz has appeared in print ads for Mango and had a contract with Ralph Lauren in 2001. Cruz and her sister designed their second collection for Mango in 2007. It was inspired by Brigitte Bardot and summers in St Tropez . Cruz ranked as No. 58 in Maxim 's "Hot 100" of 2007 list, and

738-657: A French production company, and in 1998 she shot — for the first time in Spain and in Spanish — the historical adventure A los que aman . Two years later she founded her own production company, with which she produced her most acclaimed film to date, Mi vida sin mí ( My Life Without Me ). Since then she has been one of the most acclaimed directors of Spanish cinema. In 2000, she founded her own production company called Miss Wasabi Films , for which she has produced over 400 commercials. Her international success came in 2003 thanks to

861-774: A Goya Award and European Film Award, and was nominated for the Golden Globe , the Screen Actors Guild Award , the BAFTA Award , and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role. With this nomination, Cruz became the first Spanish actress ever nominated for an Academy Award . In 2007, Cruz appeared in the lead female role in Manolete , a biopic of bullfighter Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez , playing Antoñita "Lupe" Sino. The film

984-732: A Limited Series or Movie . In addition, Cruz reteamed with Bardem on the Spanish-language psychological thriller film Everybody Knows , directed by Asghar Farhadi . The film opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival to positive reviews. Justin Chang of The Los Angeles Times praised the performances from the two leads writing, "Bardem and Cruz have such a natural, unforced chemistry". In 2021, Cruz starred alongside Antonio Banderas in Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn 's film Official Competition and reunited with Almodóvar for

1107-577: A blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile . Selected to be shown in the Berlinale Special section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival , the Spanish comedy drama was screened to lukewarm reviews, but received five nominations at the 31st Goya Awards , earning Cruz her ninth nomination. Loving Pablo , a Spanish drama film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa was released in 2017, starring Cruz in

1230-544: A cameo role. A commercial success, the comedy film was largely panned by critics. Cruz appeared in her biggest Hollywood turn to date in Rob Marshall 's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , the fourth installment of the film series , opposite Johnny Depp . In the film, Cruz portrayed Angelica , a former love interest of Jack Sparrow , who blames him for her corruption. Cruz was

1353-739: A candle to her cocaine-huffing enabler in Blow ". Cruz's last film in 2001 was Captain Corelli's Mandolin , film adaption of the novel of the same name . She played Pelagia, who falls in love with another man while her fiancé is in battle during the Second World War. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was not well received by critics, but made $ 62 million worldwide. In 2002, she had a minor role in Waking Up in Reno . It had negative reviews and

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1476-522: A defamation lawsuit against Australian magazine New Idea over an article it published about her relationship with Cruise; the publication had to apologize, pay her legal costs, and donate AU$ 5,000 (US$ 3,200) to her nominated charity. She is known to friends as Pe . Cruz owns a clothing store in Madrid , and designed jewelry and handbags with her younger sister for a company in Japan. Cruz's agent

1599-627: A different Paris quarter. Coixet has also made prominent documentaries on major themes, such as Invisibles , which was selected for the "Panorama" section of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival , about the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders . Also the documentary Journey to the Heart of Torture , which was filmed in Sarajevo during the Balkan War and won an award at

1722-469: A different film from the rest of the cast." Desson Thompson of The Washington Post was more critical; his comment about the character's "pronounced limp" was that "Cruz (hardly the world's greatest actress) can't even perform without looking fake". The film performed poorly at the box office. She also starred in Sergio Castellitto 's melodrama Don't Move . Cruz, who learned Italian for

1845-543: A lawyer who, tempted by the lure of quick money, finds himself involved in drug dealing with ruthless Mexican cartels . Cruz plays his girlfriend, Laura, the only innocent character in the story. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics and became a moderate commercial success at the international box offices. The same year, Cruz, along with Antonio Banderas , made a cameo appearance in Pedro Almodóvar's farcical comedy I'm So Excited , which marked

1968-467: A little vulgar without shedding an ounce of her natural glamour." Likewise, Carina Chocano of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Cruz, who has remarked that in Hollywood she's rarely allowed to be anything more than pretty, instills her with an awesome resoluteness and strength of character." She shared a Best Actress award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival with five of her co-stars, as well as receiving

2091-430: A major movie yet". However, Bob Longigo of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was less enthusiastic about Cruz's and Damon's performance, saying that their "resulting onscreen chemistry would hardly warm a can of beans". 2001 marked a turning point year when Cruz starred in the feature films Vanilla Sky and Blow . In Vanilla Sky , Cameron Crowe 's interpretation of Open Your Eyes , she played Sofia Serrano,

2214-567: A mature grace and determined strength, all while sizzling with unchecked sensuality." Also in 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon 's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton 's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel All the Pretty Horses . Susan Stark of The Detroit News commented that in the film Thornton was able to guide Damon, Henry Thomas and Cruz to "their most impressive performances in

2337-489: A mentally unstable woman, which was received with critical acclaim. Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle , Mick LaSalle noted, "But the revelation is Penélope Cruz, who has never been better in an American film. Suddenly, and for the first time, her stardom makes sense. As Maria Elena, José Antonio's gifted and neurotic ex-wife, Cruz is on fire – hysterically funny, abandoned, passionate, poignant, with

2460-461: A part of a collaboration with performer Residente and Sílvia Pérez Cruz on the track "313", Cruz won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 2024. "The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman." In 2006, Cruz became

2583-569: A performance full of shading and wide in range. She's as fun and as powerful as Anna Magnani, and beautiful besides. Cruz just needed somebody to turn her loose." Likewise, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian singled her out for praise, writing: "Cruz, playing Maria Elena, the passionate and crazy ex-wife of a moody Picasso-ish artist, looks as if she has wandered in from a more hefty film entirely; everything she does and says seems to mean more, count for more. This isn't to say that she gets bigger laughs, or perhaps any laughs, but she certainly walks off with

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2706-495: A pregnant nun with AIDS. The film received favorable reviews, and was commercially successful, grossing over $ 67 million worldwide, although it performed better at the box office internationally than domestically. In 2000, she appeared in Woman on Top in the lead female role as Isabelle, a world-class chef who suffered from motion sickness since birth, her first American lead role. Lisa Nesselson of Variety magazine praised

2829-549: A pretty face second, then here it is". A writer for Film4 commented that "Cruz herself is the inevitable focus of the film" but noted that overall the film "looks great". Cruz's role as Macarena has been viewed as her "largest role to date". For her performance, Cruz received a Goya Award and Spanish Actors' Union Award, and was nominated for a European Film Award . In 1999, Cruz worked with Almodóvar again in All About My Mother , playing Sister María Rosa Sanz,

2952-556: A prostitute who gives birth on a bus and in Et hjørne af paradis (A Corner of Paradise) as Doña Helena. Cruz's final appearance in 1997 was the Amenabar-directed Spanish sci-fi drama, "Abre Los Ojos"/ Open Your Eyes . She plays Sofia, the love interest of Eduardo Noriega 's lead character. Open Your Eyes received positive reviews, and was later remade by U.S. director Cameron Crowe as "Vanilla Sky" (who cast Cruz in

3075-569: A retrospective documentary of her work, commissioned by the Festival itself, Words, Maps, Secrets And Other Things , directed by Elena Trapé. Also in 2015 she received the recognized prize of the French Ministry of Culture of Knight of Arts and Letters. During 2015 and 2016, Isabel Coixet directs the project Spain in a Day , the Spanish version of the documentary crowdsourcing project produced by Mediapro . The project aims to portray

3198-416: A return to the director's light, campy comedies of the 1980s and 1990s. The film received mixed reviews, but earned a worldwide gross of more than US$ 11 million. In 2015, Cruz co-produced and starred in the Spanish drama film Ma Ma , directed by Julio Medem . In it, she plays Magda, a gutsy mother and unemployed teacher, who is diagnosed with breast cancer , a role which Cruz later cited as "one of

3321-558: A room in a greenish glow, which is right out of Hitchcock's picture [ Vertigo ]." In 1998, Cruz appeared in her first American film as Billy Crudup 's consolation-prize Mexican girlfriend in Stephen Frears' western film The Hi-Lo Country . Cruz stated that she had difficulties understanding people speaking English while she was filming The Hi-Lo Country . The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful. Kevin Lally of

3444-485: A singer who is in an on-and-off relationship with Antonio Resines 's character Blas. They are part of a Francoist film troupe that travels from Spain during the Spanish Civil War to Nazi Germany for a joint production with UFA . Cruz's performance in the film was praised by film critics, with Jonathan Holloland of Variety magazine writing "if confirmation is still needed that Cruz is an actress first and

3567-770: A singer. She also has a paternal half-sister, Salma. She was raised as a Roman Catholic . Cruz grew up in Alcobendas, and spent long hours at her grandmother's apartment. She said she had a happy childhood. Cruz remembers "playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them. I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else." Initially, Cruz focused on dance: she studied classical ballet for nine years at Spain's National Conservatory . She took three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theatre at Cristina Rota 's school. She said that ballet instilled discipline that proved important in her acting career. When she became

3690-514: A special Cannes Razzie for a performance of purest teak". In 2004, Cruz appeared in the Christmas film Noel as Nina, the girlfriend of Paul Walker 's character and as Mia in the 1930s set romantic drama Head in the Clouds , set in the 1930s. Bruce Birkland of Jam! Canoe wrote, "The story feels forced and the performances dreary, with the notable exception of Cruz, who seems to be in

3813-707: A strong social consciousness, always ready to denounce the injustices of the world. In addition, Isabel Coixet's political and feminist involvement is evident. For example, The Secret Life of Words is a film that denounces the rape of a certain woman in a certain conflict: the Balkan War. Producer only Producer Associate producer Goya Awards Medals of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers Feroz Awards Forqué Awards Sant Adri%C3%A0 de Bes%C3%B2s Sant Adrià de Besòs ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsant əðɾiˈa ðə βəˈzɔs] )

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3936-548: A very positive critical reception and great public success. The Bookshop was premiered outside Spain in a "Berlinale Special Gala" at the 68th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, which took place in February 2018. In February 2019, Coixet released the film Elisa y Marcela in collaboration with Netflix . The film, based on the first registered same-sex marriage in Spain, was

4059-502: A young woman who is expecting her first child with a man whose mother does not approve of the relationship and attempts to sabotage it by paying Javier Bardem 's character to seduce her. People magazine noted that after Cruz appeared topless in the film, she became "a major sex symbol". In an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News in 1999, Cruz commented that "it was a great part, but...I wasn't really ready for

4182-486: Is Hylda Queally , shared with Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet . Cruz has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances: She has also received two British Academy Film Award nominations, four Golden Globe Award nominations, a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, five Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and fourteen Goya Award nominations. In 2006 she received

4305-542: Is a city and a municipality within the comarca of Barcelonès in Catalonia , north-eastern Spain . It is situated on the Mediterranean coast , at the mouth of river Besòs , extending to both sides of the estuary although the original settlement with the parish church lies on the left bank of the river, in the northern part of town. Sant Adrià is the smallest municipality of Barcelonès and has close ties with

4428-472: Is also surprising because of her ability to offer her characters and their stories to the spectator with a simple but tremendously transparent view. This search for connection is influenced by one of her great referents: the poet John Berger, from whom she draws, in his own words, the conviction that "anything can explain the world" through the connection between poetry, philosophy, etc. In Coixet's universe, spiritual connections between people are combined with

4551-502: Is as its name says also meant to serve Sant Adrià de Besòs because although being located in Badalona, it is just a few meters from the city limits. Pen%C3%A9lope Cruz Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, she has received various accolades , including an Academy Award , a BAFTA Award and a Latin Grammy Award , in addition to nominations for

4674-604: Is married to Spanish actor Javier Bardem . Bardem was her co-star in her breakthrough role as Silvia in Jamón jamón (1992), as well as starring alongside her in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). They were also both in the 2013 film The Counselor , as well as in Everybody Knows in 2018. Cruz began dating Bardem in 2007 and they married in early July 2010 in a private ceremony at a friend's home in

4797-643: The Deseret News describing Cruz's portrayal of Silvia as "enchanting". Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times , film critic Roger Ebert wrote "it stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most particularly Penélope Cruz as Silvia". For her performance, Cruz was nominated for a Spanish Actors Union Newcomer Award and a Goya Award for Best Actress. The same year she appeared in the Academy Award-winning Belle Époque as

4920-623: The Film Journal International commented in his review for the film that "in an ironic casting twist, the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz [...] is much more appealing as Josepha [than in her previous roles]". For her performance in the film, she was nominated for an ALMA Award for Best Actress. Also in 1998, Cruz appeared in Don Juan and the Spanish period drama The Girl of Your Dreams . In The Girl of Your Dreams (La niña de tus ojos), Cruz portrayed Macarena Granada,

5043-511: The Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz "goes all out" with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a "sensitive performance" from Cruz. Cruz appeared alongside her good friend Salma Hayek in the 2006 Western comedy film Bandidas . Randy Cordova of The Arizona Republic said the film "sports" Cruz and her co-star Salma Hayek as

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5166-445: The 2005 Cannes Film Festival and released the following year. Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is "actually more interesting than the main storyline" while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, "The Cruz/Ifans storyline—featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters—never really fuses with the main plot." Her final 2005 film was Don't Move playing Italia. Eric Harrison of

5289-607: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in Volver (2006), Nine (2009) and Parallel Mothers (2021). Other notable 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

5412-628: The Cannes Film Festival , she premiered the film Map of the Sounds of Tokyo , shot in both Japan and Barcelona and starring Rinko Kikuchi , Sergi López and Min Tanaka , with a script by Coixet herself. And at the Centre D'Art Santa Mònica , she inaugurated From I to J , an installation in honor of the work of John Berger . That same year she received the gold medal for Fine Arts and

5535-751: The Goya in the Best Documentary category. During 2012, she directed a documentary about the 10 years of the Prestige disaster and the volunteers who participated in the recovery of the Galician coasts under the title White Tide . That same year, Coixet shot and produced Ayer no termina nunca ( Yesterday Never Ends ) which premiered in the Panorama Section of the 63rd edition of the International Film Festival of Berlin. The film also opened

5658-571: The Málaga Film Festival the same year, where it won four Silver Biznagas in the categories Special Jury Prize, Best Actress, Best Photography and Best Editing, the last two prizes won by Jordi Azategui. In the end of 2012 she also started shooting a new project, which she finished in 2013, called Another Me , an English-language thriller written and directed by Coixet with a cast that featured Sophie Turner , Rhys Ifans , Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Geraldine Chaplin , among others. In

5781-474: The Nintendo 3DS XL in which she played the role of Mario in the ad. She spoke Italian again, this time in Woody Allen 's romantic ensemble comedy film To Rome with Love , in which she portrayed a street-smart prostitute who agrees to pretend to be the wife of a newlywed. Fond to work with her again, Allen compared Cruz's play in the film with that of Italian icons Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren . While

5904-557: The "Catalan government's political mismanagement" and "its unsupportive and irresponsible statements" on the coronavirus crisis. Coixet's work as a director is striking for being, as The New York Times describes her, “unclassifiable.” Depending on the film, she shoots in English or Spanish, and subjects are diverse. Coixet's trademark is her filmmaking technique, which was derived from her background in advertising, where visuals, color, and composition are carefully constructed. She works as

6027-599: The "lusty dream team" and that they were the "marketing fantasy" for the film. Also in 2006, Cruz received favourable reviews for her performance as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula, in Pedro Almodóvar 's Volver . A.O. Scott of The New York Times remarked, "With this role Ms. Cruz inscribes her name near the top of any credible list of present-day flesh-and-blood screen goddesses, in no small part because she manages to be earthy, unpretentious and

6150-779: The Bahamas . They have a son named Leo Encinas Cruz who was born in January 2011 in Los Angeles, and a daughter named Luna Encinas Cruz who was born in July 2013 in Madrid. She became an advocate of breastfeeding in public following the birth of her children. Cruz had a three-year relationship with Tom Cruise after they appeared together in Vanilla Sky (2001). The relationship ended in January 2004. In June 2003, Cruz settled

6273-579: The Fringe the later of which she also served as a producer. Guy Lodge of Variety praised her performance in L'immensità writing, "If it was through the lens of Pedro Almodóvar that Cruz really established herself as her generation’s stand-in for Sophia Loren , Crialese takes the likeness one step further, planting the Spaniard in Loren’s hometown of Rome, as the kind of beautifully wounded housewife that

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6396-520: The Italian icon perfected in the films of Crialese’s youth." She portrayed Laura, Enzo Ferrari's wife, alongside Adam Driver and Shailene Woodley in the biopic Ferrari , directed by Michael Mann . The film chronicled the life of Enzo Ferrari , founder of the Ferrari brand. In 2023, Cruz became a brand ambassador for Emirates appearing in advertisements for the airline, as well as Geox . As

6519-627: The Night was her next project, filmed in Norway , Bulgaria and the Canary Islands . The film starred Juliette Binoche , Rinko Kikuchi and Gabriel Byrne . The film opened the 66th Berlin International Film Festival to competition. Coixet is always interested in shooting documentaries to denounce what she doesn't agree with or to give voice to her protagonists. She shot a documentary in Chad at

6642-446: The October 2003 Human Rights Film Festival. In April 2006, she was honored with the Creu de San Jordi De Cine Awards by the Generalitat de Catalunya . The Barcelona director received not one but two awards. In addition to the critical award for The Secret Life of Words ( La vida secreta de las palabras ) as the best Spanish film, she also received the Rosa de Sant Jordi prize, voted by the audience of Radio Nacional de España (RNE), for

6765-479: The Orient Express (2017), the fourth adaptation of Agatha Christie 's 1934 novel of the same name . The mystery – drama ensemble film follows world-renowned detective Hercule Poirot , who seeks to solve a murder on the famous European train in the 1930s. Cruz plays missionary and passenger Pilar Estravados, a Hispanic version of the novel's Swedish Greta Ohlsson. The film was a financial success but received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with praise for

6888-425: The Satellite Awards and European Film Awards for her performance in Broken Embraces . Cruz's final 2009 film was the film version of the musical Nine , playing the character Carla Albanese, the lead character's mistress. Variety reported that Cruz originally auditioned for the role of the film within a film's star, Claudia, which eventually went to Nicole Kidman . Cruz said that she trained for three months for

7011-562: The Sexiest Woman Alive in 2014. In May 2023, she was appointed as the brand ambassador for Emirates Airline . Cruz has donated money and time to charity. In addition to work in Nepal , she has volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent a week working with Mother Teresa that included assisting in a leprosy clinic. That trip inspired Cruz to help start a foundation to support homeless girls in India, where she sponsors two young women. She donated her salary from her first Hollywood film, The Hi-Lo Country , to Mother Teresa's mission. In

7134-428: The Spanish TV channel Telecinco 's talk show La Quinta Marcha , a programme that was hosted by teenagers, aimed at a teenage audience. She also played in the " Elle et lui " episode of an erotic French TV series called Série rose in 1991, where she appeared nude. In 1991, Cruz made her feature film debut as the lead female role in the comedy drama art house film Jamón, jamón . In the film, she portrayed Silvia,

7257-439: The architect Benedetta Tagliabue and the participation of the actresses Penélope Cruz , Monica Bellucci , Isabelle Huppert , Maria de Medeiros , Sarah Polley , Tilda Swinton and Leonor Watling . Also in 2009 she directed a short documentary called La mujer es cosa de hombres about male violence and the media. for a project entitled "50 years of..." about the history of Catalonia. In 2010, she took on responsibility for

7380-457: The best production. The award ceremony was held at the Palau de la Música . In 2008, Coixet released Elegy , which was filmed in Vancouver and produced by Lakeshore Entertainment . The film was based on Philip Roth 's novel The Dying Animal , was written for the screen by Nicholas Meyer , and starred Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley . Elegy was presented at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2009, as an official selection of

7503-564: The camera operator on all of her films. Among her most recurrent themes we can find a concern for communication, for words as a way of conventional understanding between people and that usually do not have the effect we expect. As she herself has acknowledged on occasion, she is obsessed with those situations in which messages do not reach their recipient. Another of her signs of identity is her marked social commitment, both with themes such as global warming (which she showed in 'The Secret Life of Words') and with social themes (documentaries such as

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7626-445: The cast's performances, but criticism for not adding anything new to previous adaptations. In 2018, Cruz made her television debut by co-starring in the role of Donatella Versace in the second season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story entitled The Assassination of Gianni Versace . Her performance was highly praised by critics and she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in

7749-422: The city of Barcelona , Sant Adrià de Besòs is well served by road , rail and many other forms of public transport , becoming an important part of the transportation network in Barcelona metropolitan area . The city has always been an economically unprivileged town and a really dense area, and it remained indifferent to the establishment and the improvement of public transport around Barcelona for many years, but

7872-438: The city to the district of Sant Martí up to Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona. Maresme Line also runs through the city with Sant Adrià de Besòs railway station as the only stop of the line in town which lies in the eastern part of Sant Adrià and is served by Rodalies de Catalunya commuter rail line R1. Verneda is the only Barcelona Metro station officially located in the municipality, but Artigues – Sant Adrià station

7995-432: The comarca. Currently, 16 bus routes run through the municipality, 5 of them are local bus routes operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) to and from Barcelona, 8 are interurban routes within Barcelonès , and 3 are night routes. With regard to rail transport modes, Trambesòs is the most prominent transport system in Sant Adrià which comprises 7 stops within the municipality served by all its routes, linking

8118-462: The content of one of the three Spanish Pavilion lounges for the Expo Shanghai . Plus, she inaugurated the exhibition Aral . The Lost Sea , which shows her documentary with the same title, shot in Uzbekistan in 2009. In 2011, within the "Berlinale Specials" section of the Berlin Film Festival, she premiered the documentary Listening to Judge Garzón giving voice to the Spanish magistrate through an interview with writer Manuel Rivas . The film won

8241-404: The dance routine in the film. Claudia Puig of USA Today commented that while Cruz "does a steamy song and dance", her "acting is strangely caricatured". Cruz's performance as Carla was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards. Cruz's only film in 2010 was Sex and the City 2 , the sequel to the 2008 film , in which she appeared as a banker in

8364-409: The early 2000s, she spent time in Nepal photographing Tibetan children for an exhibition attended by the Dalai Lama . She also photographed residents at the Pacific Lodge Boys' Home, most of whom are former gang members and recovering substance abusers. She said: "These kids break my heart. I have to control myself not to cry. Not out of pity, but seeing how tricky life is and how hard it is to make

8487-402: The end of 2014 narrated by Juliette Binoche entitled Talking about Rose: Prisoner of Hissène Habré . The piece relates the experience of a group of torture victims in their struggle to bring the former Chadian dictator to justice, an effort led by US human rights lawyer Reed Brody . During the 2015 edition of the Málaga Festival, the prize was awarded to her entire career and it was presented

8610-475: The experience, "I was very extroverted as a kid.... I was studying when I was in high school at night, I was in ballet and I was doing castings. I looked for an agent and she sent me away three times because I was a little girl but I kept coming back. I'm still with her after all these years." In 1989, at the age of fifteen, Cruz won an audition at a talent agency at which more than 300 other girls had applied. In 1999, Katrina Bayonas , Cruz's agent, commented, "She

8733-425: The film Parallel Mothers , in which she played Janis, a professional photographer entangled in a relationship with a married man, leading to an affair and resulting in her pregnancy. Both films premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival , where the latter received rave reviews. Parallel Mothers also screened at the 59th New York Film Festival , where it was received positively. Her performance in

8856-797: The film Cruz "expertly mines the contrast between chic, compliant, white-clad Anna and funky, street-wise Melody, who treats [Martin Freeman's character] Gary like the world-class drag he is". In 2008, Cruz starred alongside Ben Kingsley in Isabel Coixet 's film Elegy , which was based on the Philip Roth story The Dying Animal , as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo. Ray Bennett of The Hollywood Reporter described Cruz's performance as being "outstanding in an otherwise lame male fantasy [film]." That same year, Cruz appeared in Woody Allen 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena,

8979-417: The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who felt that it had "more celebrity cameos than laughs." Cruz's other film that year was Louis Leterrier 's British spy comedy Grimsby , in which she played a powerful philanthropist, opposite Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong . Cruz was reportedly offered $ 400,000 for her role. The film received mixed reviews, with critics suggesting that Cruz

9102-445: The film received mixed reviews, Cruz was reviewed favourably for her "exuberantly, cartoonishly sexy" performance, which The Week cited as a stand out. The same year, Cruz also reunited with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Twice Born about an infertile Italian woman who returns to relive her past in Sarajevo . An adaptation of Castellitto's wife Margaret Mazzantini 's same-titled bestseller, Cruz portrayed

9225-456: The film was lauded, winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress and receiving her second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, her fourth nomination overall. Stephanie Zacharek from Time stated that "Cruz is astonishing here, in what may be the best performance of her career so far. Janis' fragility and her fortitude are two sides of one coin, and Cruz can shift from one to the other in

9348-411: The film". Cruz received a Goya Award and her first Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also received a Golden Globe and SAG nomination. With her Oscar win, Cruz became the first, and to date only, Spanish actress to ever be awarded an Academy Award, as well as the sixth Hispanic performer to have received the award. Cruz's next film was the kid-friendly G-Force , voicing

9471-557: The highest-grossing films of all time, grossing more than $ 1.046 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. On 1 April 2011, prior to the film's release, Cruz received the 2,436th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the El Capitan Theatre . She became the first Spanish actress to receive a Star. In 2012, Cruz appeared in the first ever Nintendo commercial to promote New Super Mario Bros. 2 and

9594-473: The important industrialisation of the area during the last century and has been subject of various major urban redevelopments . In 2004, Sant Adrià de Besòs was part of the Universal Forum of Cultures . The origins of the town are linked to the parish church of Sant Adrià de Besòs, which was referred to in 1012, where in about 1092 a priory of Augustinian monks, dependants of Sant Ruf d'Avinyo ,

9717-524: The intimate drama My Life Without Me . The film was based on a short story by Nancy Kincaid. Canadian actress Sarah Polley played Ann, a young mother who decides to hide from her family that she has terminal cancer. This Hispanic-Canadian co-production was highly praised at the Berlin International Film Festival . Coixet then continued working with Polley as her lead actress with the film The Secret Life of Words , which

9840-683: The last male holdouts to join the Cruz-Rules camp, but her tour de force performance here sucks you right in." In 2001, she also appeared in Don't Tempt Me , playing Carmen Ramos. The film received negative reviews. Jeff Vice of the Deseret News commented that "unfortunately, casting Cruz as a tough girl is a hilariously bad [idea]" and Michael Miller of the Village Voice writing that "as Satan's helper Carmen, Penélope Cruz doesn't hold

9963-432: The late nun's mission. She is the only Spanish actress to have won an Academy Award and to have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Cruz was born on 28 April 1974 in the town of Alcobendas , province of Madrid , Spain, to Encarna Sánchez, an Andalusian hairdresser and personal manager, and Eduardo Cruz, an Extremaduran retailer and car mechanic. She has two siblings, Mónica , also an actress, and Eduardo,

10086-489: The love interest of Tom Cruise 's character. The film received mixed reviews, but made $ 200 million worldwide. Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz "is an enchanting screen presence", and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were "able to generate some actual chemistry". Her next film

10209-485: The making of video clips, documentaries and a fictional feature film, but also to projects outside the audiovisual sector, such as exhibitions, books and other types of cultural projects. Among the main projects, directed and produced by Isabel Coixet, are the documentary ' Aral, el mar perdido ' (2009), ' From I to J ' (2010), ' Escuchando al Juez Garzón ' (2011), the feature film ' Ayer no termina nunca ' (2013), or " Talking about Rose. Prisoner of Hissène Habré " (2015). On

10332-602: The merest breath." Owen Gleiberman of Variety mentioned that "Cruz acts this part with a mood-shifting immediacy that leaves you breathless", with David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter describing her performance as "one of the best roles of her career" and "her most outstanding work since Volver." Following the release of these films, she was honoured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for her career and achievements in film. Luxury fashion house Chanel returned as

10455-620: The miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Since 2010, Cruz has been married to Spanish actor Javier Bardem . She has done modelling work for Mango , Ralph Lauren and L'Oréal , and along with her younger sister Mónica Cruz , designed clothing for Mango. She has been a house ambassador for Chanel since 2018. She has volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent one week working with Mother Teresa ; she donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund

10578-507: The most complex, beautiful characters I've ever been offered, the most difficult." The melodrama was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival , where it received generally negative reviews for its weepie story line. However, Cruz was praised for her "aces performance", which earned her an eighth Goya nomination at the 30th awards ceremony . Cruz's first film of 2016

10701-559: The most famous flops in history" and in 2007, listed it at 24 on its list of "Biggest Box-Office Turkeys of All Time". Lori Hoffman of the Atlantic City Weekly felt Cruz put her "considerable [acting] skills on cruise control as Dr Eva Rojas" and James Berardnelli of ReelViews described Cruz's performance as a "black hole", that she "lacks screen presence". Also in 2005, Cruz appeared in Chromophobia , screened at

10824-418: The national route N-II parallel to Maresme 's coastline and the local road BV-5001 towards Montornès del Vallès and La Roca del Vallès , crossing the northern part of the municipality. Public transportation network is mainly composed of several urban and interurban bus routes that provide a good internal connection within the municipality as well as the connection of the city to other nearby cities within

10947-618: The neighbouring cities of Barcelona , Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet , forming a uniform urban area within Barcelona metropolitan area . The municipality straddles major transportation networks and is served by several modes of public transport. Sant Adrià is currently a town dominated by the service sector , but with a diverse manufacturing sector (especially in the areas of metal-work, chemistry, and construction) consisting mostly of medium-sized companies. Historically, it has experienced several massive migration flows attracted by

11070-627: The novel of the same name by the English writer Penelope Fitzgerald and received the prize for the best literary adaptation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017. The film was shot in Northern Ireland and Barcelona, starring Emily Mortimer , Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson . The Bookshop inaugurated the SEMINCI 2017, as a world premiere, receiving good reviews and it was commercially released in Spain on November 10, with

11193-455: The nudity. [...] But I have no regrets because I wanted to start working and it changed my life." Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes noted that Cruz "became an overnight sensation as much for her nude scenes as for her talent". When Rose asked Cruz if she was concerned about how she would be perceived after her role in the film, Cruz replied, "I just knew I had to do the complete opposite." Jamón, jamón received favorable reviews, with Chris Hicks of

11316-486: The occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of TVE Catalunya (TVE Cataluña) Isabel Coixet, along with fifteen other Catalan documentary filmmakers, had the idea of capturing in images, taken from the archive of Televisión Española , the last half Spanish century. The programme 50 years of... ( 50 años de… ) is in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the first TVE broadcast in Catalonia, whose first headquarters

11439-400: The one made to Judge Garzón are a good example). Love and solitude are also constant in her cinema, in a very deep and spiritual way, nothing topical and stereotyped, although there is a common place recognizable in several of her productions that is the laundry. The filmmaker's approach to her characters and their stories is surprising because of her ability to get them in deep. Her approach

11562-477: The only actress considered for the role, as she fit Marshall's description. He invited her for the role as they wrapped the production of Nine . The actress spent two months working out and learning fencing for the role. During filming, Cruz discovered she was pregnant, leading the costume department to redesign her wardrobe to be more elastic, and the producers to hire her sister Mónica Cruz to double for Penélope in risky scenes. On Stranger Tides ranks among

11685-442: The performances of both Cruz and her co-star, Harold Perrineau , saying they "burst off the screen", and added that Cruz has a charming accent. BBC News film critic Jane Crowther said that "Cruz is wonderfully ditzy as the innocent abroad" but remarked that "it's Harold Perrineau Jr as Monica who pockets the movie". Annlee Ellingson of Box Office magazine wrote "Cruz is stunning in the role—innocent and vulnerable yet possessing

11808-506: The phrases "How are you?" and "Thank you". In 1997, Cruz appeared in the Spanish comedy film Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health . She portrays Diana, a fan of the Beatles band member John Lennon ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after many failed relationships, Diana re-unites with an acquaintance under unusual circumstances. That same year, she appeared in the opening scene of Pedro Almodóvar 's Live Flesh as

11931-620: The presenting sponsor making for an in-sync affair, as Cruz has served as ambassador for the brand since 2018. The following year, she appeared in the female-led spy action film The 355 , directed by Simon Kinberg and starring alongside Jessica Chastain , Lupita Nyongo , Diane Kruger , Fan Bingbing , Sebastian Stan , and Édgar Ramírez . The film was released by Universal Pictures on January 7, 2022. Also in 2022, Cruz acted in Emanuele Crialese 's Italian drama film L'immensità and Juan Diego Botto 's Spanish thriller On

12054-406: The reality of a country reflected by hundreds of domestic videos recorded during the same day and that has had as direct precedents Britain in a Day and Italy in a Day . In the case of Spain in a Day , the videos were recorded on 24 October 2015 by thousands of volunteers. In the summer of 2016 she directed the feature film The Bookshop ( La librería ). The script adapted by Coixet was based on

12177-638: The recent development in public infrastructures and urban renewals has brought substantial transport improvement, especially in the form of tram services. C-31 highway comes directly from Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes in Barcelona to Mataró and intersects perpendicularly with Ronda del Litoral (B-10 motorway) in the middle of town, forming a major highway interchange , and allowing B-10 to be linked with Ronda de Dalt (B-20 motorway) at Nus de la Trinitat, another major highway interchange in northern Barcelona. Other main roads serving Sant Adrià include

12300-639: The right choices." A pregnant Cruz showed her support for the battle against AIDS by lighting up the Empire State Building with red lights in New York City on 1 December 2010 on International AIDS Day , as part of (RED)'s new awareness campaign, 'An AIDS Free Generation is Due in 2015,' which aims to eradicate the HIV virus from pregnant mothers to their babies. In 2012 and 2018, she posed for ads supporting PETA 's anti-fur campaign. Cruz

12423-566: The role of Virginia Vallejo , and her husband, Javier Bardem , in the role of Pablo Escobar . Based on Vallejo's bestselling memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar , the film was launched to mixed reviews during the 74th Venice International Film Festival . In order to play the role of the Colombian journalist, Cruz studied hundreds of interviews of Vallejo. Cruz had a supporting role in Kenneth Branagh 's mystery film Murder on

12546-524: The role, won the David di Donatello for her performance. She also won the European Film Award for Best Actress for the film in 2004. In 2005, Cruz appeared as Dr. Eva Rojas in the action adventure Sahara . She earned $ 1.6 million for her supporting role. The film grossed $ 110 million worldwide but did not recoup its $ 160 million budget. Moviefone dubbed the film "one of

12669-586: The same role and Tom Cruise in Noriega's role), but "Open Your Eyes" was not commercially successful. Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz "has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable. [...] There's one shot in particular, where Cruz enters

12792-560: The signatories of the "Call to the federalist and left-wing Catalonia" manifesto, asking the Catalan left-wing for an unabashed federalist stance vis-à-vis the State. She openly declared her opposition to the October 2017 independence referendum held in Catalonia , signing another manifesto calling on people not to take part in the vote. In April 2020 she signed a manifesto to say "enough" to

12915-736: The summer of 2013 she started shooting Learning to Drive , an American production developed in New York City , based on an article published in The New York Times and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson , with whom Isabel Coixet had already worked in Elegy . It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Grolsch People's Choice Award. Nobody Wants

13038-708: The third original Spanish film by Netflix. On 4 September 2020, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that Isabel Coixet would be awarded the National Film Award 2020. The award was presented at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Isabel Coixet created her own production company in 2000, Miss Wasabi , with the vocation to self-produce her own more personal projects. The production company has dedicated itself basically to advertising,

13161-500: The transitional character at different phases in her life, ranging from her early twenties to her late forties. Despite receiving little praise from critics, Cruz's performance opposite Emile Hirsch earned positive reviews. In 2013, Cruz appeared in Ridley Scott 's The Counselor , featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Michael Fassbender , Cameron Diaz , Brad Pitt , and husband Javier Bardem . The crime thriller follows

13284-468: The virginal Luz. People magazine noted that Cruz's role as Luz showed that she was versatile. From 1993 to 1996, Cruz appeared in ten Spanish and Italian films. At 20, she went to live in New York for two years at Christopher and Greenwich to study ballet and English between films. She recalls learning English "kind of late", previously knowing only the dialogue she had learned for the casting and

13407-506: The world of advertising, standing out as creative director of the agency JWT. Her clients included BMW, Renault and Ikea. She won several accolades for her spots, but the ads did not fulfill her expectations. Coixet made her first short film in 1984: Mira y verás . In 1988, Coixet made her debut as a scriptwriter and director in Demasiado Viejo Para Morir Joven ( Too Old to Die Young ). For this movie, she

13530-641: Was Blow , adapted from Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $ 100 million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All . She had a supporting role as Mirtha Jung, the wife of Johnny Depp 's character. The film received mixed reviews, but made $ 80 million worldwide. Nina Willdorf of the Boston Phoenix described Cruz as "multi-talented" and Mark Salvo of The Austin Chronicle wrote "I may be one of

13653-456: Was a box office failure. The following year, Cruz had a supporting role in the horror film Gothika as Chloe Sava, a patient at a mental hospital. David Rooney of Variety wrote that Cruz "adds a serviceably malevolent edge to Chloe's apparent madness". Cruz's performance in Fanfan la Tulipe , also in 2003, was not well received, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian commenting that Cruz "deserves

13776-466: Was absolutely magic [at the audition]. It was obvious there was something ... impressive about this kid.... She was ... green, but there was a presence. There was just something coming from within." Her father, Eduardo, died at his home in Spain in 2015, aged sixty two, from a heart attack . In 1989, 15-year-old Cruz made her acting debut in a music video for the Spanish pop group Mecano 's song "La Fuerza del Destino". Between 1990 and 1991, she hosted

13899-631: Was also part of the jury of the 59th edition of the Berlin Film Festival. In April 2009 at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mónica in Barcelona and in April 2010 at La Casa Encendida in Madrid , Coixet presented a monographic exhibition dedicated to the British writer, art critic, poet and artist John Berger entitled From I to J. A tribute by Isabel Coixet to John Berger , with the collaboration of

14022-434: Was chosen by Empire magazine as being one of the 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in the world. Cruz was also ranked on Askmen.com 's Most Desirable Women of 2008 at No. 26, in 2009 at No. 25, and in 2010 at No. 7. In April 2010, she replaced Kate Winslet as the new face and ambassador of Lancôme 's Trésor fragrance. Lancôme signed Cruz as their third superstar spokesmodel, along with Julia Roberts and Winslet. The campaign

14145-574: Was critically panned, and Variety felt that Cruz has "clearly been cast to play the kind of red-hot drama queen she's pulled off infinitely better in the films of Pedro Almodovar." After being shelved since 2007, Manolete (originally shot in 2005 ) released on demand via cable, satellite, telco and online on 7 June 2011 under the title A Matador's Mistress . She also appeared in The Good Night , playing two characters, Anna and Melody. TV Guide film critic Maitland McDonagh noted that in

14268-464: Was founded. Saint Olegarius (San José María de Porcioles) came to this priory from 1095 to 1108 before becoming the bishop of Barcelona and, later, the archbishop of Tarragona . In 1127 the priory was moved to Santa Maria de Terrassa . Surrounding this church, upon a small hill fourteen metres high, to the west of the River Besòs, is the nucleus of the original village. Given its proximity to

14391-474: Was highly underused and "looking even less invested here than she did in Zoolander 2 ". Also in 2016, Cruz rejoined Fernando Trueba on his Spanish-language period pic The Queen of Spain , a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama The Girl of Your Dreams . Set in the 1950s, twenty years after the events of the original, Cruz reprised the role of an actress who becomes a Hollywood star and returns to Spain to film

14514-592: Was nominated at the Goya Awards as a Best New Director. In 1996, she traveled to the United States to shoot her first English-language feature film, entitled Things I Never Told You ( Cosas que nunca te dije ). This drama cast American actors led by Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy . Coixet received her second nomination at the Goya Awards for Best Original Screenplay . Coixet then connected with

14637-483: Was not shown. In 2011, The Telegraph reported the most sought after body parts of the rich and famous revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture of the perfect woman. Under the category of the most sought after body shape, Cruz, known for her voluptuous figure, was voted as having the top body. Men's Health ranked her at No. 32. on their "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" list. Esquire named her

14760-407: Was released in 2005 and also starred Tim Robbins and Javier Cámara . The film was awarded four Goyas: Best Film, Best Director, Best Production and Best Screenplay. In 2005, Coixet joined eighteen other international filmmakers, among them Gus Van Sant , Walter Salles and Joel and Ethan Cohen , to make the groundbreaking collective project Paris, je t’aime , in which each director explored

14883-483: Was shot by Mario Testino at Paris 's Hotel de Crillon and debuted in the autumn of 2010. In 2010, Cruz was a guest editor for the French Vogue magazine, focusing on larger-size models in a provocative photo shoot. Almodóvar described her as his muse . On the cover of Spanish Vogue ' s December 2010 issue, she agreed to be photographed by fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh only if her pregnancy

15006-511: Was the American comedy Zoolander 2 , co-starring and directed by Ben Stiller . In the sequel film, Cruz portrayed a secret Interpol agent who enlists models Derek Zoolander (Stiller) and Hansel McDonald, played by Owen Wilson , to help find out who is killing the world's most beautiful people. Specifically written for her persona, Cruz, a fan of the original 2001 film , was one of the first actors to be cast in their parts. Upon its release,

15129-405: Was the mythical Miramar Hotel in Barcelona, which was maintained for twenty-four years, until 1983, when the production center was moved to San Cugat del Vallés . There has been a second season, as well as a third entitled Cómo hemos cambiado . Coixet has a daughter, Zoe, born in 1997, and lives in Barcelona with her boyfriend, Reed Brody, a human rights lawyer. In October 2012 Coixet was one of

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