Penélope Cruz
Cruz in 2009, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Penélope Cruz Sánchez
Place of Birth: Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
Date of Birth: 28 April, 1974
Ethnicity: Spanish
Penélope Cruz is a Spanish actress and model. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). She has appeared in many Spanish and Hollywood films, also including Jamón Jamón, Belle Époque (1992), Open Your Eyes, Live Flesh, The Girl of Your Dreams, The Hi-Lo Country, Don Juan (1998), All About My Mother, Woman on Top, All the Pretty Horses, Blow, Vanilla Sky (2001), Gothika, Volver, Broken Embraces, Nine (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I’m So Excited!, The Counselor, Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Everybody Knows, Pain and Glory (2019), Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas), Official Competition, and Ferrari, and on television’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. She has often collaborated with director Pedro Almodóvar. She has modeled for Mango, Ralph Lauren, and L’Oréal, and has been a house ambassador for Chanel.
Penélope was born in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, the daughter of Eduardo Cruz, a retailer and auto mechanic, from Alonchel, Extremadura, and Encarna Sanchez, a hairdresser and personal manager, from Andalusia. She is the sister of actress Mónica Cruz, and Eduardo, a singer. Penélope and Monica have designed clothing for Mango. Penélope has volunteered in Uganda and India.
She is married to actor Javier Bardem, with whom she has two children.
One article stated that Penélope has some Romani ancestry:
[Penélope] was the oldest of three siblings… by her grandmother she had Gypsy [Romani] blood… She wanted to became ballerina like her grandmother. And although her family wasn’t rich, the mother decided to invest in the future of her daughter.
It is not clear if this Romani ancestry has been verified/documented.
Penélope’s paternal grandfather was named Manolo Cruz.
Penélope’s paternal grandmother was named Modesta.
Penélope’s maternal grandmother was named Isabel Sánchez.
Source: Genealogy of Penélope Cruz (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Ahh btw! yes we are mediterranean caucasian! and that is not better or worst than other race, just different, as anyone else!!! please keep the conversation peacefully :) un saludo no os enfadéis ^^!
Honestly I think that she has not gypsy ancestors, and all is just a supposition, there has been a long time without multiculturalism in our country, some generations ago was unconceivable that a gypsy and a “payo” (non-gypsy) would marry…
Nowadays things have changed and it’s not that extrange, and also you can see how multiculturalism re-start due to the immigration (spaniards married with latinamerican, romanian, arabs, subsaharian african, etc…) I thing that is wondeful, but many people is against it because they are VERY racist, despite we had a great multiculturalism 8 centuries ago (arabs, jews, etc…) but they deny that roots…
Uaooooo im going to show this discussion to my friends, it demonstrate how much dumb americans are, i just found out that my self and other 40 million spanish peoples are not white… guys really, u can continue this crazyness online, no problem, but if u head down in Madrid or everywhere else in Spain dont mix up south american indians, arab north africans or even gipsyes during a discussion/argument bcz u will get problems, there is an invasion and demographic replacement going on, racial tension are hig bcz of unemployement.. if u tell a spanish men that is the same as a dominican mulatto or a peruvian indian u will get in trouble… Good continuation with ur crazyness… Jorge
Yeah but Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and all the rest be quick to claim there spanish side, instead of their African or Native side, thats crazy, tryin to tell em white aint always right, theyll disown you in a heart beat.
jorge you cant put sentences together but we are dumb?
Ehy Rafael te lo digo… vete a tomar por culo!!!
I speak english, french, italian and off course spanish.. and u english professor?
ehy? you mean EY? xD
how old are you? you seem to be 14 years old or so, but actually you’re older.
Lo que no quita para saber de que pie cogeas
your spanish,is terrible as well.jorge, yo tambien hablo espanol.tu espanol no esta bueno tampoco,asi que mejor metete otra cosa por el culo.
I’m amazed at how people here classify people. If someone has brown eyes and hair they can’t be white but must have some other ethnicity. If someone has African or Asian ancestry they are not going to deny it. Spanish people are white and European. I think people in the US are confused because of the Hispanic and Latino terms. People should be called what their nationality is e.g. Mexican, Cuban, Peruvian etc.
Wow! I always thaught she should have gypsy blood! I was right
“Same with Australia its next to many Asian countries but its white!”
Maybe because White Europeans colonized Australia, DUH? Just like the Americas??? WTF?