Javier Bardem
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Biography
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career spanning over three decades, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Cannes Film Festival Award in addition to two Volpi Cups and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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 Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Sam Mendes's James Bond spy film Skyfall (2012), Terrence Malick's drama To the Wonder (2013), Darren Aronofsky's horror film mother! (2017), Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama Everybody Knows (2018), Denis Villeneuve's science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), and Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023).
Bardem has been married since 2010 to actress Penélope Cruz, with whom he shares two children. In January 2018, Bardem became the ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
Today
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Dune
The Little Mermaid
Dune: Part Three
Collateral
Scorpion in Love
The Eternal Memory
Dune: Part Two
F1
The Gunman
Skyfall
Monsters
mother! The Downward Spiral
Eat Pray Love
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Being the Ricardos
mother!
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Cape Fear
Cortés
No Country for Old Men
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