Penelope Cruz To Receive 'Walk Of Fame' Star Friday

HOLLYWOOD (CBS) — Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz is scheduled to receive the 2,436th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday.

Cruz's latest film, latest film, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," hits theaters Mayh 20. Cruz portrays the daughter of the notorious pirate Blackbeard and the love interest of Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).

Rob Marshall, the film's director who also directed Cruz in her 2009 Oscar-nominated role in the romantic musical "Nine," will join her at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

Born April 28, 1974, near Madrid, Spain, Cruz made her acting debut in Spanish television when she was 16.

Cruz made her feature film debut in 1992 in "Jamon, Jamon," playing a young woman who finds herself pregnant by a man her mother does not approve of, so her mother hires an underwear model, played by her future real-life husband, Javier Bardem, to seduce her.

Cruz starred in her first English-language film "The Hi-Lo Country" in 1998.

Cruz received the first of her three Academy Award nominations for her role in the 2006 film "Volver." She won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2009 for her performance in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

Cruz's other memorable films include "Vanilla Sky," "Blow," "All the Pretty Horses," the Oscar-winning best foreign film "All About My Mother," "Open Your Eyes," "Twice Upon a Yesterday," "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," "Gothika," "Head in the Clouds," "Sahara," "Elegy" and "Broken Embraces."

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