英語名人堂：佩內(nèi)洛普·克魯茲

佩內(nèi)洛普·克魯茲(Penélope Cruz)，1974年4月28日出生于西班牙馬德里，西班牙影視演員。她畢業(yè)于西班牙國家音樂學院古典芭蕾系。

1992年，她出演電影《火腿火腿》。1994年，克魯茲到美國發(fā)展。2007年，她憑電影《回歸》入圍奧斯卡、金球獎及英國電影學院獎最佳女主角。2009年，克魯茲憑借在《午夜巴塞羅那》中的表演獲第81屆奧斯卡獎最佳女配角獎。2011年4月，佩內(nèi)洛普·克魯茲留名好萊塢星光大道。

Penelope Cruz is a Spanish actress who has won considerable critical acclaim for her role in Spanish and English movies. She is the first Spanish actress to be nominated for an Oscar. Cruz speaks four languages fluently. She also donates a considerable amount of money and time to charity. From 2001, Cruz had a three-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise.

Cruz was born in Madrid in 1974 to a hairdresser mother and motor mechanic father. She wanted to be a dancer as a child and studied classical ballet for nine years. Her younger sister Monica is a famous Spanish dancer. However, when Cruz was 15, she decided to get into acting after beating 300 other hopefuls at a talent agency audition.

Cruz first achieved fame in a Spanish pop video and then as a TV presenter. Her first major films were ‘Jamón, Jamón’ and ‘Belle Époque’, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2000 she appeared with Matt Damon in ‘All the Pretty Horses’. She rose to fame by co-starring in ‘Vanilla Sky’, opposite Tom Cruise.

Cruz has received two Goya Awards and two European Film Awards for her work. She also won a Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, she was used as the face for L’Oreal’s worldwideadvertising campaign and a year later, she launched her own fashion line in Spain. She wants to balance her life and work between Hollywood and Europe.