Javier Bardem

Acting

Born Mar 01, 1969

From Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career that has lasted over thirty years, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, seven Goya Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. A son of actress Pilar Bardem, he first became known for such Spanish films as Jamón jamón(1992), Boca a boca (1995), Carne trémula(1997), Los lunes al sol (2002), and Mar adentro (2004). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010), and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021). His portrayal of assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' western film No Country for Old Men (2007) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem has also starred in auteur-driven films such as Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Terrence Malick's drama To the Wonder (2013), Darren Aronofsky's horror film mother! (2017), and Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama Everybody Knows (2018). He also acted in blockbuster films such as the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), the swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales(2017), the science fiction epic films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), and Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010, and they have two children together. In January 2018, Bardem became Greenpeace's ambassador for Antarctica's protection. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Javier Bardem

Known For

F1

Dune: Part Two

Dune

No Country for Old Men

The Little Mermaid

Dune: Part Three

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Skyfall

mother!

Collateral

Filmography — Acting

F1

Dune: Part Two

Dune

No Country for Old Men

The Little Mermaid

Dune: Part Three

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Skyfall

mother!

Collateral

The Ages of Lulu

Eat Pray Love

Automata

Spellbound

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

The Counselor

Jamon Jamon

The Tit and the Moon

The Gunman

Love in the Time of Cholera

Biutiful

Live Flesh

Loving Pablo

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Everybody Knows

The Sea Inside

High Heels

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Being the Ricardos

The Beloved

The Good Boss

Dance with the Devil

To the Wonder

Before Night Falls

Airbag

The Last Face

Goya's Ghosts

Golden Balls

Mondays in the Sun

The Roads Not Taken

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

Second Skin

Running Out of Time

A Journey to Sundance

Don't Tempt Me

The Dancer Upstairs

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition

Between Your Legs

Bunker

Amo tu cama rica

Washington Wolves

The Bilingual Lover

Mouth to Mouth

Scorpion in Love

Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony

The Detective and Death

mother! The Downward Spiral

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

Look at Me

Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Walking Fernando

Querido Fotogramas

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión

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