Javier Bardem
Acting
Born 1969-03-01
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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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, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Goya Awards, in addition to a Cannes Film Festival Award and two Volpi Cups.
Bardem is the 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' crime 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 Eat Pray Love (2010), 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), Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023), and the sports action film F1 (2025). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024), for which he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series (as an executive producer).
Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010 and together they have two children. In January 2018, Bardem became the ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica.
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Filmography
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jeopardy!
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Cape Fear
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Dune: Part Two
F1
Dune
El hormiguero
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
No Country for Old Men
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Oscars
Dune: Part Three
The Little Mermaid
Skyfall
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Conan O'Brien Must Go
Collateral
Eat Pray Love
mother!
Live from E!
The Counselor
Today
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Lo + plus
Automata
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Spellbound
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
The Gunman
The Tit and the Moon
Jamon Jamon
Loving Pablo
Biutiful
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
Live Flesh
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Sea Inside
The Ages of Lulu
Querido Fotogramas
Scorpion in Love
La Noche D
Everybody Knows
All That's Left of You
To the Wonder
The Last Face
Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
Goya's Ghosts
Being the Ricardos
High Heels
The Good Boss
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
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