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
Gypsies come from northwest India ( around modern day Pakistan or Indian punjab) but along their travels they did mix with locals on the way in Europe and the Middle east! Though Gypsies are classified as Indo-Aryans (a north indian ethnic group0!
No they don’t! they come from Romania. Where on earth do you get India?? Lol crazy
No they have been in Romania hundreds of years but they are not ethnic Romanians they do originate from India.Romanian people do not like them much.
There are two types of Caucasian…white and brown .They are the same race but the centuries of certain weather conditions is responsible for shade of skin.they have the same history.
Way before multiculturalism (Jorge) it has been an accepted fact that Spain,Ireland,Scotland and Hungry has Indian DNA to about 10-15% at least.They are still of the same group however.Indian from north India that is.Spain has it most and its reflected in the flamenco culture which is mainstream Spanish.So girls exactly like Penelope Cruz can be seen across north India in their thousands.Those are Punjabi girls and I assure you its true.You can google up Priety Zinta or Kareena Kapoor for two and I can only show you those bcuz you will not know the others.Only difference will be the clothes they wear.The genetics are the same.Hungry is proud of their link to India.
Vast majority of Spanish are olive…..rarely fully white.
Don’t be silly. Spaniards, Irish, Scottish and Hungarians do not have Indian ancestry. The few who do are probably the ones who have Gypsy admixture somewhere in their line.
And Penelope Cruz is rather atypical looking for a Spanish woman, but her supposed Gypsy blood explains it. However Spain is a Mediterranean country, where it would also not be hard to find an ‘exotic’ type who is not mixed at all. Tan or olive skin tones does not mean someone is mixed.
You may want to check your facts before making such bald statements.
The flamenco culture of Spain is derived from Punjab,India.Flamenco is so main stream Spanish its unbelievable but its roots are from Punjab.Same applies to Ireland,Hungry and Scotland.Look on DNAtribes and its confirmed there.North Indians are caucasian and indo-European…both not the preserve of Europeans alone.Some Europeans like Portugese,Spanish,Italian,Greeks,Balkans people can be darker than Indian Punjabis and other north Indians.Greeks and Italians particularly can be darker.Romanians,Yogoslavs etc.Some namely Jat Punjabis (60% of total Punjabis) have 47 DNA points in common with Germans and Baltic peoples.If you don’t know that thats your problem.
Okay, I retract my earlier statement about it being silly without looking into it. Sorry about that. But then again, how far back are you talking? Before certain migrations occurred? And does this apply to the general populations of these countries? And while Flamenco would have it’s ultimate roots in India, that is because it’s something the Gypsies are credited with influencing in Spain.
Its part and parcel of the fabric of the nation which is Spain.Okay it may have evolved along the way from India to Spain.The origin remains in the DNA,culture,art and tradition.
Same thing for Europe.Europeans came from central Asia .Thats where caucasia is yet they ended up in places like USA and still call themselves that.The north Indian has those genetics by right.They did not need to mix with the west.Jat Punjabis have 47 DNA points in common with Germans and Baltic people and thats bcuz they all came from central asia to begin with so how far is that ??? lol.
Britain claims to be Anglo-saxon….that was centuries ago.But the Saxon part of that is called Saxa in north India and he has been there too and lives there.
@Poppy Thank you for explaining.
poppy no one cares about your fantasies. she’s Spanish.
.jorgelorenzo likes chewing mexican dicks.
She looks like a rat.
That was very nice thing to say! You look like a rat!!!!
Gypsies come from India, and I see something Indian in this