Penelope Cruz makes incredibly rare public appearance with famous husband

Javier has long been a big fan of soccer, and in 2025, confirmed he is a longtime supporter of the Spanish football club Atlético Madrid.

It appeared that their son, Leo, 15, may have also been in attendance, as at one point Penelope placed her hand on the young man sitting next to her. Their children have been mostly kept out of the spotlight, and in 2023, Penelope told guests, including HELLO! at a BAFTA panel that her children “are the most important thing in my life, obviously, and they don’t come to a lot of these things.”

Javier and Penelope met in 1992 on the set of the Spanish film Jamón Jamón, but it wasn’t until they reconnected 15 years later while filming Vicky Cristina Barcelona that they fell in love.

In 2009, Penélope won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) while her husband Javier won an Oscar the year prior for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the acclaimed Coen Brothers neo-western No Country for Old Men. 

Both are the only Spanish-born actors to be awarded the prizes, and they secretly tied the knot back in 2010. In January 2011, they welcomed their son Leo, and a daughter named Luna in July 2013.

Penelope turned 50 in April 2024, and for a special feature with Elle Spain, looking back over her life, she shared that motherhood had always been one of her goals in life, and that as a young woman, she once considered adoption, but her work-life balance was not in a place for it to be acceptable.

“I worked a lot before, and at a very crazy pace,” she confessed, explaining that making up to four films a year at the start of her career allowed her the possibility to do good work and build a solid base.

But she admitted that she felt “lucky that what I have been sowing over time now gives me the possibility of choosing what to do and where and when”.