Javier Bardem
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · F1 as Ruben Cervantes
- 2024 · Spellbound as King Solon (voice)
- 2024 · Monsters as José Menendez
- 2024 · Conan O'Brien Must Go as Self
- 2024 · Dune: Part Two as Stilgar
- 2023 · The Little Mermaid as King Triton
- 2022 · Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile as Hector P. Valenti
- 2021 · Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz
- 2021 · Dune as Stilgar
- 2021 · Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Inigo Montoya
- 2018 · Everybody Knows as Paco
- 2017 · Loving Pablo as Pablo Escobar
- 2017 · mother! as Him
- 2017 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Armando Salazar
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · The Gunman as Felix Marti
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Automata as Blue Robot (voice)
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · The Counselor as Reiner
- 2013 · To the Wonder as Father Quintana
- 2012 · Skyfall as Silva
- 2012 · Buenas noches y Buenafuente as Self - Guest
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Biutiful as Uxbal
- 2010 · Eat Pray Love as Felipe
- 2008 · Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
- 2007 · Love in the Time of Cholera as Florentino Ariza
- 2007 · No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · El hormiguero as Self - Guest
- 2004 · The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro
- 2004 · Collateral as Felix Reyes-Torrena
- 2002 · E! Live from the Red Carpet as Self
- 1998 · Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law as Sultán (uncredited)
- 1997 · Dance with the Devil as Romeo Dolorosa
- 1997 · Live Flesh as David de Paz
- 1996 · Not Love, Just Frenzy as
- 1995 · Lo + plus as Self - Guest
- 1994 · The Tit & the Moon as Benito González
- 1993 · Golden Balls as Benito González
- 1992 · Jamon Jamon as Raúl
- 1992 · Crónicas del mal as
- 1991 · High Heels as Regidor T.V.
- 1990 · The Ages of Lulu as Jimmy
- 1986 · Segunda Enseñanza as
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self
- Future · Cape Fear as Max Cady
- 2024 · Walking Fernando as Fernando
- 2023 · The Eternal Memory as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 · Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages as Self (archive)
- 2022 · Look at Me as Leo
- 2022 · Cruce de caminos as Self
- 2021 · The Good Boss as Julio Blanco
- 2020 · The Roads Not Taken as Leo
- 2019 · Sanctuary as Javier Bardem
- 2018 · Querido Fotogramas as Self
- 2018 · Thy Kingdom Come as Father Quintana
- 2017 · mother! The Downward Spiral as Self
- 2017 · Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Last Face as Dr. Miguel Leon
- 2014 · Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
- 2013 · Scorpion in Love as Solis
- 2013 · L'Agent as Construction Worker
- 2012 · Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony as Self - Narrator
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2010 · 14 Actors Acting as Self
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2008 · Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze as El chorizo (archive footage)
- 2008 · No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
- 2008 · Diary of a Country Sheriff as Self
- 2008 · The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' as Self
- 2006 · Goya's Ghosts as Lorenzo Casamares
- 2006 · Hécuba: un sueño de pasión as Self
- 2005 · El oficio de actor as Itself
- 2002 · Mondays in the Sun as Santa
- 2002 · The Dancer Upstairs as Agustín Rejas
- 2001 · Don't Tempt Me as Tony Graco
- 2000 · Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
- 1999 · Second Skin as Diego
- 1999 · Washington Wolves as Alberto
- 1999 · Between Your Legs as Javier
- 1997 · Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health as Stretcher Bearer
- 1997 · Airbag as José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'
- 1996 · Extasis as Rober
- 1995 · Mouth to Mouth as Víctor Ventura
- 1995 · La madre as Hijo
- 1994 · Running Out of Time as Lisardo
- 1994 · The Detective and Death as Det. Cornelio
- 1993 · Huidos as
- 1993 · The Bilingual Lover as Limpiabotas
- 1981 · El poderoso influjo de la luna as Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)
- 1974 · El pícaro as Alonso de niño
- Future · A Journey to Sundance as Self
- 1992 · Amo tu cama rica as Antonio
- Future · Bunker as
- Future · The Making of 'Dune: Part Two' as
- Future · The Beloved as
- Future · Sherman and Pacifico as Pacifico