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Fresh off of completing her initial shoot with the company, it has been announced that Penelope Cruz has made a deal with the Lancôme division of L’Oréal.

Working on a new modeling gig, Penelope Cruz was spotted spending her 36th birthday on the set of Lancome Advertising in Paris, France today (April 28).

Gearing up for the biggest night in Tinseltown, Penelope Cruz attended a press conference for her Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nomination in Los Angeles, California on Saturday afternoon (March 6).

Dazzling fellow attendees as they worked the red carpet, Penelope Cruz and Marion Cotillard looked stunning at the Paris premiere of “Nine” on Thursday night (February 18).

One of Spain's foremost leading ladies of the 1990s, Penélope Cruz has managed to make her mark with international audiences as well. Born in Madrid on April 28, 1974, Cruz was one of three children of a merchant and a hairdresser. After years of intensive study in ballet and jazz, she broke into acting in 1992. That year, she had starring roles in Jamón Jamón and Belle Epoque, two very disparate films. The former cast her as the desperately poor daughter of a village prostitute, while the latter featured her as one of four lusty daughters of a wealthy man in pre-Franco Spain. Belle Epoque proved to be a huge success, winning nine Goya Awards (the Spanish equivalent of an Academy Award) and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Its success gave Cruz a dose of international recognition, and after starring in a number of Spanish films, she enhanced this recognition in 1997 with the Sundance entry Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). That same year, she had a brief but memorable role in Pedro Almodóvar's Carne Trémula (Live Flesh).
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