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Javier Bardem
Bardem at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem March 1, 1969 (1969-03-01) (age 40) Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanish actor. He has garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.

Bardem has been awarded an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, four Goya awards, two European Film Awards and two Coppa Volpis for his work. He is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls) as well as the first to win (Supporting Actor, 2007, for No Country for Old Men).¹

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, the son of Carlos Encinas and the actress Pilar Bardem.² Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors who have been working since the earliest days of Spanish cinema; he is the grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and the nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem.³ Both his older brother and his older sister, Carlos and Mónica Bardem, are actors. His film debut was at the age of six and a half in the film El Pícaro (The Scoundrel) and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, sports. Before acting professionally, Bardem was a member of the underage Spanish national rugby team.⁴

Career

Bardem starred in his second major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu, when he was 20. In 1992, he made his first international hit with Jamón, jamón, which also starred Penélope Cruz. His first English language speaking role came in 1997 with director Alex de la Iglesia's "Perdita Durango", playing a santeria-practicing bank robber. After starring in roughly two dozen films in his native country, he eventually landed his international breakthrough in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls in 2000, as Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, the first time for a Spaniard. In 2002 he starred in John Malkovich's directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs.

Bardem won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in 2004's Mar Adentro, released in the United States as The Sea Inside, in which he portrayed the quadriplegic turned assisted-suicide activist Ramón Sampedro. That year he also made a brief appearance as a crime lord who summons Tom Cruise's hitman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses in Michael Mann's crime drama Collateral. In 2007, Bardem acted in two film adaptations: the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, and the adaptation of the Colombian novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. In No Country for Old Men, he played a sociopathic killer, Anton Chigurh. For that role, he became the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem's rendition of Chigurh's trademark phrase, "Call it, friendo," was named Top HollyWORDIE of 2007 in the annual survey by the Global Language Monitor.⁵ Chigurh was named #26 in Entertainment Weekly magazine's 2008 "50 Most Vile Villains in Movie History" list.⁶

He starred with Cruz and others in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Bardem was in talks to play fictional filmmaker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine; the part eventually went to Daniel Day-Lewis.⁷

Personal life

Bardem does not know how to drive and consistently refers to himself as a "worker" and not an actor.⁸ Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005, Bardem incited controversy when he stated that if he were gay, he would "get married tomorrow, just to fuck with the Church" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia).⁹ Bardem's life's work was honored at the 2007 Gotham Awards, produced by Independent Feature Project. Bardem began dating then co-star Penélope Cruz in 2007, although the couple has maintained a low public profile.¹⁰

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1990	Las edades de Lulú	Jimmy
1991	Tacones Lejanos	Regidor T.V.
1992	Jamón, jamón	El chorizo	Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actor Spanish Actors Union Newcomer Award Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actor
1993	Huevos de oro	Benito González	Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actor
	El Amante Bilingüe	El limpiabotas
1994	Running Out of Time (Días contados)	Lisardo	Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Award of the Spanish Actors Union for Supporting Film Performance
	The Detective and Death	Detective Cornelio	El detective y la muerte Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
1995	Mouth to Mouth (Boca a boca)	Victor Ventura	Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Goya Award for Best Actor Ondas Award for Best Actor Premios ACE for Best Actor
1996	Éxtasis	Rober	Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Nominated — Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance
1997	Carne trémula	David	Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actor Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actor
	Perdita Durango	Romeo Dolorosa	Nominated — Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance
			European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actor
1999	Second Skin	Diego	Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
	Washington Wolves (Los Lobos de Washington)	Alberto	Ondas Award for Best Actor
2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	National Board of Review Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male Premios ACE for Best Actor Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Volpi Cup Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
2002	The Dancer Upstairs	Agustín Rejas	Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
	Mondays in the Sun	Santa	ADIRCAE Award for Best Actor Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Goya Award for Best Actor Gramado Film Festival Golden Kikito Award - Latin Film Competititon - Best Actor Premios ACE for Best Actor Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actor Nominated — European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actor
2004	Collateral	Felix
	The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)	Ramón Sampedro	Bangkok International Film Festival Golden Kinnaree Award for Best Actor Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor European Film Award for Best Actor Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor Goya Award for Best Actor Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actor Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance Volpi Cup Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — Premios ACE for Best Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
2006	Goya's Ghosts	Brother Lorenzo
2007	Love in the Time of Cholera	Florentino Ariza
	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Villain Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Juan Antonio	Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated — Gaudí Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2010	Biutiful	Uxbal	post-production
2011	Eat, Pray, Love	Felipe	filming

See also

• List of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Javier Bardem

• Javier Bardem at the Internet Movie Database

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