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PENELOPE CRUZ
"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."
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Updated: Mar 14, 2009 | 15:46:07 EST
About Penelope Cruz
Originally a classical ballet student, Cruz first turned her attention toward acting as a teenager and soon found frequent work on TV shows and music videos. This exposure snowballed into movie roles, including the film All About My Mother (1999), her first film to receive sizable exposure in America. Films like Woman on Top (2000), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Blow (2001), and Vanilla Sky (2001) followed, as did a relationship with her Vanilla Sky costar, Tom Cruise.
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