Penélope Cruz

In the 2000s, Mónica has left her dancing career and achieved fame on her own in the youth-oriented TV series Un Paso Adelante. Cathy Downs has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6648 Hollywood Boulevard. This similarity has been used in Spanish TV ads. She worked sporadically in television during the 1960s but was unemployed for several years before her death in Los Angeles, California. Her younger sister Mónica Cruz resembles her a lot. By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958. The relationship started on the set of the film Vanilla Sky in which they appeared together. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films.

In early 2001 she began a three-year relationship with Tom Cruise. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters (1945) and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. In 1999 she appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre which won an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film. Cathy Downs (March 3, 1924 – December 8, 1976) was an American film actress. She also appeared with Matt Damon in All The Pretty Horses. Cruz's first major films were Jamón, Jamón and the more widely known (in the US) Belle Époque, a film which won an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film.

She also was a TV presenter for the teen-oriented program La Quinta Marcha, in collaboration with Jesús Vázquez. She then started a relationship with Nacho Cano, a member of the group, which lasted for several years. She first achieved fame when she appeared in the video clip La fuerza del destino for the Spanish synth-pop group Mecano. Her parents named her after a song by Joan Manuel Serrat.

Born in Madrid, Spain, Cruz was a dancer as a child and young teen, and actually dropped out of high school to pursue dancing at the National Conservatory of Madrid (majoring in Classical Ballet) and theatre at Cristina Rota's School in New York (4 years). Penélope Cruz Sánchez, nicknamed simply Pe, (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. IMDB Profile (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004851/). Don't Move (2004).

Head in the Clouds (2004). Gothika (2003). Fanfan la tulipe (2003). Vanilla Sky (2001).

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001). Blow (2001). Woman On Top (2000). All The Pretty Horses (1999).