Hollywood couple's baby joy

Star pair welcome their first child...

10:19 26 January 2011

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have welcomed the birth of their first child.

The 36-year-old actress gave birth on 25 January, but the notoriously secretive couple have not revealed the child's gender or name.

Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that Cruz has given birth in Los Angeles at the world-renowned Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

Bardem, 41, was asked in September during an interview what he thought about starting a family.

He said he was "very happy" and that they hadn't decided on a name yet.

The pair started dating back in 2007 after they starred alongside each other in Woody Allen's film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

They married in July 2010 in a low-key ceremony in the Caribbean.