Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 423rd episode of awards chatter, the Hollywood

reporters awards podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a stunningly

talented and beautiful trailblazing Spanish actress who is one of only a small handful of

European actresses who have become bona fide a list stars in America.

The Los Angeles Times has called her one of international cinemas most artistically

risk-ready performers.

The New York Times has said she is near the top of any credible list of present day flesh

and blood screen goddesses.

And the Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley has said, no two of her performances are alike,

watch any two of her films back to back and the sheer reach of her range is immediately

obvious.

Over the 30 years since her big screen debut in the Spanish film Hamon Hamon, she has

won acting awards from each of the five highest profile European film academies.

Indeed she has three goias from Spain, two Felix's from the European Film Academy, one

Bafta from England, one David D. Donatello from Italy, and one Cesar from France.

She has also starred in two films which won the best international feature Oscar, 1992's

Bella Puck, and 1999's All About My Mother.

For 2006's Volvera, she became the first Spanish actress ever to be nominated for an

acting Oscar, and two additional acting nominations later, for 2008's Vicki Christina Barcelona

and 2009's Nine, remains the only Spanish actress ever nominated.

And for Vicki Christina Barcelona, she became in 2009 the first Spanish actress ever to

win an acting Oscar.

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