• Name: Penelope Cruz
  • Age: 37
  • Occupation: Actress
  • Best work: Volver
  • Worst work: Vanilla Sky
  • Worth: ££
  • Significant others: Javier Bardem
  • Most likely to: be loathed by Nicole Kidman

Spanish senorita Penelope wanted to be a dancer and for many years studied ballet. But she hung up her ballerina shoes for good once she started her television career in Spain. Her roles soon overflowed into the American film business and after a few minor roles in some low budget films she finally became a credited actress after All the Pretty Horses. It was on set filming; Vanilla Sky that she met newly single Tom Cruise and the pair then began a 'relationship' together. The rest readers...is history. The Oscar winning actress and her husband, the Oscar winning actor, Javier Bardem, had their first child together in January 2011, the same day that Bardem's Oscar nomination for Biutiful was announced.

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Famous people wearing expensive dresses, lucky things
The week in fashion: HM style round-up, 28 October 2011 28/10/2011 - 14:15 by Gemma Exley
There's not really any theme in this week's fashion round-up - unless you can call 'making us a bit jealous' a theme... Actually, Keira Knightley doesn't make us very jealous - we wouldn't want to give her the satisfaction, especially when she already looks a bit smug in her Roksanda Ilincic dress (the joke's on her because we've stuck a logo over her face, ha). Freida Pinto, Amber Heard, Olivia Williams, Emma Stone and Michelle Williams, on the other hand, we wouldn't mind being for just one day. We're sure they wouldn't mind being us in the Freaky Friday swap - it's so much fun sat here writing about them...
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Kate Middleton, Alexa Chung and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
The week in fashion: HM style round-up, 1 July 2011 01/07/2011 - 14:35 by Gemma Exley
To be honest, the only pictures we want to see of Middleton now are ones where Diana has been crudely Photoshopped in next to her, but the above is actually of note because she's wearing a dress by Erdem, the designer who's so hot-shit right now that he has to have a titanium toilet bowl. He's Canadian, Middleton is in Ottawa. Perfect, though not so much as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's red carpet appearance in this Antonio Berardi number, which is just as well since now there's actually something memorable from the Transformers 3 premiere. We've also got Alexa Chung smartening up in Burberry and making the most of being able to wear platform heels while Alex Turner is out of town, Jennifer Aniston and Katie Holmes in their LBDs (little boring dresses), and Julia Robert keeping her hairy pits under-wraps in a blazer at the Larry Crowne premiere. There's also a nice appearance from her niece, Emma, plus more more more...
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