Penélope Cruz

The weather in Cannes is abysmal, which plays havoc with the hair. Women continued to choose controlled hair that would not fall apart in drizzle.

Spanish star and Golden Globe nominee Penélope Cruz is first to admit a strong affinity to music. “I have this very strong relationship with classical music because that was my first hobby, from when I was four years old and I started to go to ballet,” she says.

The star of director Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, Golden Globe nominee Penélope Cruz followed closely the five-year process that took the filmmaker to Spain, in an effort to understand the roots of the story he wanted to tell. HFPA journalist Gabriel Lerman got all the details.

At the Cannes Film Festival, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem walked the red carpet with the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi at the opening night. Their film is Everybody Knows and the real life husband and wife do not play a couple but a couple that once was.

Two-time nominee and Golden Globe winner Asghar Farhadi is an accomplished cinematic storyteller whose intimate films often revolve around the slow burn of inexorable emotional turmoil. His movies are triumphs of economy whose strength lies precisely in their narrative restraint, and they have garnered worldwide acclaim, not least the jury and screenwriting prizes previously won here in Cannes.

The star power of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem dominates this celebration of the 74th Venice Film Festival. Much of this gallery features this pair of talented actors because much of the red carpet was filled with gowns that, although trending, simply show too much décolletage or underwear.

Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lawrence, Penelope Cruz, Michelle Pfeiffer – just a few of the megawatt talent on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival. Click for more of Jennifer and to see how the men do casual.

Ma Ma is the first movie fully produced by Penélope Cruz. The three-time Golden Globe nominated actress has produced before but, as she herself recognized, “never from the first moment”.

Three times Golden Globe nominee Penelope Cruz won a Spanish Goya Award for her role in Julio Medem’s Ma Ma. In the Spanish director’s film Cruz plays Magda, a young mother who is diagnosed with cancer and has to come to terms with mortality and motherhood.