On the personal life front, Penelope Cruz is married to her longtime Spanish heartthrob and actor Javier Bardem. The pair began dating in 2007 and tied the knot in July 2010 in a private ceremony in the Bahamas. Bardem and Cruz have two children together, a son Leo, born in 2011, and a daughter Luna, born in 2013.
Having endured as romantic partners in a notoriously fickle industry, the superstar actress and her Academy Award-winning husband are an A-list super couple. The couple also has similarly lauded résumés. Both of them have been working for decades, earned three Oscar nominations, and won one Academy Award (Cruz is the second Spanish actor to win an Oscar Award after her husband, Javier Bardem).
Interestingly, Bardem and Cruz have also been acting opposite one another, on and off in several movies such as Jamon Jamon (1992), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Loving Pablo (2017), and Everybody Knows (2018), among others.
Before Bardem fell in love with Penelope’s feisty personality, the superstar actress dated Tom Cruise for three years, but the pair split in 2004. She also dated her Sahara co-star Matthew McConaughey, but the relationship was also shortlived as it ended in May 2006.
