From the working class suburbs of Madrid, Penélope Cruz triumphed at the age of 18 in Bigas Luna's "Jamón, jamón", as a feisty ingenue, leaving Javier Bardem panting with desire - she married him some fifteen years later after a flurry of American romances. Wise or well advised, Penélope Cruz then avoided being pigeonholed as a young bimbo by accepting the role of a sympathetic...