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 The 40-year-old follows last year's winner, American actress
Scarlett Johansson, to earn the honor chosen by Esquire editors.
Cruz, whose last film was director Ridley Scott's 2013 thriller
"The Counselor," alongside husband Javier Bardem, will star in
the upcoming Spanish-language drama "Ma Ma," and is currently in
production on the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy "Grimsby."
The Madrid-born actress, who won a supporting actress Oscar for
her performance as an emotionally volatile artist in Woody
Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," told the magazine that she
is no longer as attracted to dramatic roles as before.
"I had an attraction to drama," Cruz said in the magazine's
upcoming issue. "Most of us have that, especially if you are an
artist - you feel like you are tempted to explore the darkness.
I could not be less interested now."
Cruz and Bardem, 45, have two young children together.
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She rose to international prominence in 2001 with roles in Hollywood
films "Vanilla Sky," and "Blow." She also frequently collaborates
with acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, who has called Cruz
a muse while the actress told Esquire that the "Talk to Her"
director is her "biggest source of inspiration."
American actress Mila Kunis, Barbados-born pop star Rihanna and
South African actress Charlize Theron have all recently been given
the distinction by Esquire.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and G Crosse)
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