Hollywood Glamour

Penelope Cruz will receive an honorary Cesar Award, the French Academy has announced. According to sources, the 43-year-old actor will be bestowed with the honour during the annual awards ceremony, the French equivalent of the Academy Awards. "Penelope Cruz has the talent to shine in international productions as much as in (smaller) films, whether (she's working) for Ridley Scott, Rob Marshall, Kenneth Branagh, Sergio Castellitto, Fernando Trueba or Asghar Farhadi with whom she has just wrapped 'Everybody Knows' ('Todos Lo Saven') which will come out in May," Alain Terzian, the president of France's Academy of Arts and Techniques of Cinema, said in a statement. During her two-decade long career, Cruz has won many awards, including an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' in 2008.  She also won a BAFTA award for the Woody Allen film. The ceremony will b...

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas, and is often drawn to portraying angst-ridden women. Winslet is the recipient of  various accolades , including three  British Academy Film Awards , and is among the few performers to have won  Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Awards . Born in  Reading, Berkshire , Winslet studied drama at the  Redroofs Theatre School . Her first screen appearance, at the age of 15, was in the British television series  Dark Season  (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in  Heavenly Creatures  (1994), and received her first  BAFTA Award  for playing  Marianne Dashwood  in  Sense and Sensibility  (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance  Titanic  (1997). It was the  highest-grossing film  of all time to that point...

Marilyn Monroe, ( born  Norma Jeane Mortenson ; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer. She is considered to be the world’s most photographed woman ever. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell " characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's changing attitudes towards sexuality. She was a top-billed actress for only a decade, but her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2019) by the time of  her death  in 1962. Long after her death, she has continued to be a major icon of  pop culture . -         Born and raised in  Los Angeles , Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and married at age 16. She was working in a factory as part of the war effort during World War II when she met a photographer from the  First Motion Picture Unit  and began a s...