With two new movies—Broken Embraces, her fourth film with director Pedro Almodóvar, and Rob Marshall’s big-name musical extravaganza, Nine—Penélope Cruz is mining both the Spanish roots that made her an actress and the hard-won Hollywood breakthrough that made her an international star. Penélope Cruz is on the cover of November 2009 Vanity Fair. The cover was shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
