# Penélope Cruz filmography

Penélope Cruz (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Woody Allen comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). She is the first and only Spanish actress to both win and be nominated for an Academy Award in an acting category. She also was Oscar-nominated for her roles in the drama Volver (2006), the romance musical Nine (2009), and the melodrama Parallel Mothers (2021).
She made her acting debut at the age of 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in the romantic tragicomedy Jamón Jamón (1992). Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Belle époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). During this time she gained acclaim for her numerous 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 Volver she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 59th Cannes Film Festival.
Cruz achieved greater international recognition for her lead roles in Hollywood films such as the psychological thriller Vanilla Sky (2001), the crime drama Blow (2001), the action-adventure Sahara (2005), the fantasy adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), the crime thriller The Counselor (2013), the murder mystery Murder on the Orient Express (2017), and the sports drama Ferrari (2023). She has also worked in with auteur directors acting in independent films such as the drama Elegy (2008), the romantic comedy To Rome with Love (2012), the mystery Everybody Knows (2018), the spy thriller Wasp Network (2019) the satirical comedy Official Competition (2021), and the coming-of-age drama L'immensità (2022).
She portrayed as fashion designer Donatella Versace in the FX limited series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | Jamón, jamón | Silvia | |
| 1992 | Belle époque | Luz | |
| 1993 | For Love, Only for Love | Mary | Per amore, solo per amore |
| 1993 | The Greek Labyrinth | Elise | El Laberinto griego |
| 1993 | The Rebel | Enza | La Ribelle |
| 1994 | Alegre ma non troppo | Salomé | |
| 1994 | Todo es mentira | Lucía | |
| 1995 | Entre rojas | Lucía | |
| 1996 | La Celestina | Melibea | |
| 1996 | Brujas | Patricia | |
| 1996 | Not Love, Just Frenzy | Laura | Más que amor, frenesí |
| 1997 | Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health | Diana | El amor perjudica seriamente la salud |
| 1997 | Open Your Eyes | Sofia | Abre los ojos |
| 1997 | Live Flesh | Isabel Plaza Caballero | Carne trémula |
| 1997 | Et hjørne af paradis | Helena | |
| 1998 | The Girl of Your Dreams | Macarena | La niña de tus ojos |
| 1998 | Talk of Angels | Pilar | |
| 1998 | The Hi-Lo Country | Josepha | |
| 1998 | Don Juan | Mathurine | |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Maria Rosa Sanz | Todo sobre mi madre |
| 1999 | The Man with Rain in His Shoes | Louise | |
| 1999 | Volavérunt | Pepita Tudó / la Maja | |
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses | Alejandra Villarreal | |
| 2000 | Woman on Top | Isabella Oliveira | |
| 2001 | Blow | Mirtha Jung | |
| 2001 | Don't Tempt Me | Carmen Ramos | Bendito infierno |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Pelagia | |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Sofia Serrano | American adaptation of Abre los ojos |
| 2002 | Waking Up in Reno | Brenda | |
| 2003 | Fanfan la Tulipe | Adeline la Franchise | |
| 2003 | Masked and Anonymous | Pagan Lace | |
| 2003 | Gothika | Chloe Sava | |
| 2004 | Head in the Clouds | Mia | |
| 2004 | Noel | Nina Vasquez | |
| 2004 | Don't Move | Italia | Non ti muovere |
| 2005 | Sahara | Eva Rojas | |
| 2005 | Chromophobia | Gloria | |
| 2006 | Bandidas | Maria Alvarez | |
| 2006 | Volver | Raimunda | |
| 2007 | Manolete | Antonita Sino | |
| 2007 | The Good Night | Anna | |
| 2008 | Elegy | Consuela Castillo | |
| 2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Maria Elena | |
| 2009 | G-Force | Juarez | Voice only |
| 2009 | Broken Embraces | Magdalena | Los abrazos rotos |
| 2009 | Nine | Carla Albanese | |
| 2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Carmen García Carrión | |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Angelica | |
| 2012 | To Rome with Love | Anna | |
| 2012 | Twice Born | Gemma | Venuto al mondo |
| 2013 | I'm So Excited! | Jessica | Los amantes pasajeros |
| 2013 | The Counselor | Laura | |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Winnie Portley-Rind | Voice only (Spanish dub) |
| 2015 | Ma Ma | Magda | |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | Valentina Valencia | |
| 2016 | Grimsby | Rhonda George | |
| 2016 | The Queen of Spain | Macarena Granada | La reina de España |
| 2017 | Loving Pablo | Virginia Vallejo | |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express | Pilar Estravados | |
| 2018 | Everybody Knows | Laura | Todos lo saben |
| 2019 | Pain and Glory | Jacinta | Dolor y gloria |
| 2019 | Wasp Network | Olga Gonzalez | |
| 2021 | Parallel Mothers | Janis Martínez Moreno | Madres paralelas |
| 2021 | Official Competition | Lola Cuevas | Competencia oficial |
| 2022 | The 355 | Graciela Rivera | |
| 2022 | L'immensità | Clara | |
| 2022 | On the Fringe | Azucena | Also producer; En los márgenes |
| 2023 | Ferrari | Laura Ferrari | |
| 2025 | The Bride! † | Myrna | Filming |
Key :
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | Softly from Paris | Javotte | Série rose; Episode: "Elle et lui" |
| 1992 | Framed | Lola Del Moreno | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | Donatella Versace | 5 episodes; main role |
| 2020 | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | Prince Humperdinck / Princess Buttercup | Episode: "Chapter Nine: Have Fun Storming The Castle!" |