She is the only Spanish actress to have won an Academy Award and to have received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has been a house ambassador for Chanel since She volunteered in Uganda and India, where she spent one week working with Mother Teresa , and donated her salary from The Hi-Lo Country to help fund the late nun's mission.
She also has a paternal half-sister, Salma. I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. Initially, Cruz focused on dance: [ 5 ] she studied classical ballet for nine years [ 7 ] at Spain's National Conservatory. As a teenager, Cruz became interested in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! I was studying when I was in high school at night, I was in ballet and I was doing castings. I looked for an agent and she sent me away three times because I was a little girl but I kept coming back.
I'm still with her after all these years. It was obvious there was something She was There was just something coming from within. Her father, Eduardo, died at his home in Spain in , aged sixty two, from a heart attack. In , year-old Cruz made her acting debut in a music video for the Spanish pop group Mecano 's song "La Fuerza del Destino". Between and , she hosted the Spanish TV channel Telecinco 's talk show La Quinta Marcha , a programme that was hosted by teenagers, aimed at a teenage audience.
People magazine noted that after Cruz appeared topless in the film, she became "a major sex symbol". I wasn't really ready for the nudity. From to , Cruz appeared in ten Spanish and Italian films. She recalls learning English "kind of late", previously knowing only the dialogue she had learned for the casting and the phrases "How are you? She portrays Diana, a fan of the Beatles band member John Lennon ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after many failed relationships, Diana re-unites with an acquaintance under unusual circumstances.
She plays Sofia, the love interest of Eduardo Noriega 's lead character. Open Your Eyes received positive reviews, [ 23 ] and was later remade by U. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September review that Cruz "has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.
