Welcome to the 50 club, Penélope Cruz Sánchez!! The only Spanish actress to win an academy award, Penelope remembers “playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them. I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.” Initially, she focused on dance: She studied classical ballet for nine years at Spain’s National Conservatory. She took three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theatre at Cristina Rota’s school. She said that ballet