Javier Bardem
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
Credits
- 2025 · F1 as Ruben
- 2024 · Spellbound as King Solon (voice)
- 2024 · Monsters as José Menendez
- 2024 · Walking Fernando as Fernando
- 2024 · Dune: Part Two as Stilgar
- 2023 · The Eternal Memory as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 · The Little Mermaid as King Triton
- 2023 · Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages as Self (archive)
- 2022 · Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile as Hector P. Valenti
- 2022 · Look at Me as Leo
- 2022 · Cruce de caminos as Self
- 2021 · Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz
- 2021 · The Good Boss as Julio Blanco
- 2021 · Dune as Stilgar
- 2021 · Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Inigo Montoya
- 2020 · The Roads Not Taken as Leo
- 2019 · Sanctuary as Javier Bardem
- 2018 · Querido Fotogramas as Self
- 2018 · Everybody Knows as Paco
- 2018 · Thy Kingdom Come as Father Quintana
- 2017 · mother! The Downward Spiral as Self
- 2017 · Loving Pablo as Pablo Escobar
- 2017 · mother! as Him
- 2017 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Armando Salazar
- 2017 · Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Last Face as Dr. Miguel Leon
- 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 · Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · The Counselor as Reiner
- 2013 · Scorpion in Love as Solis
- 2013 · To the Wonder as Father Quintana
- 2013 · L'Agent as Construction Worker
- 2012 · Skyfall as Silva
- 2012 · Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony as Self - Narrator
- 2012 · Buenas noches y Buenafuente as Self - Guest
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2010 · 14 Actors Acting as Self
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Biutiful as Uxbal
- 2010 · Eat Pray Love as Felipe
- 2009 · Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
- 2008 · Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
- 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
- 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 · Goya's Ghosts as Lorenzo Casamares
- 2006 · Hécuba: un sueño de pasión as Self
- 2005 · El oficio de actor as Itself
- 2004 · The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro
- 2004 · Collateral as Felix Reyes-Torrena
- 2002 · Mondays in the Sun as Santa
- 2002 · The Dancer Upstairs as Agustín Rejas
- 2002 · E! Live from the Red Carpet as Self
- 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
- 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
- 1997 · Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health as Stretcher Bearer
- 1997 · Airbag as José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'
- 1996 · Not Love, Just Frenzy as
- 1996 · Extasis as Rober
- 1995 · Mouth to Mouth as Víctor Ventura
- 1995 · La madre as Hijo
- 1995 · Lo + plus as Self - Guest
- 1994 · Running Out of Time as Lisardo
- 1994 · The Detective and Death as Det. Cornelio
- 1994 · The Tit & the Moon as Benito González
- 1993 · Golden Balls as Benito González
- 1993 · The Bilingual Lover as Limpiabotas
- 1992 · Jamon Jamon as Raúl
- 1992 · Crónicas del mal as
- 1992 · Amo tu cama rica as Antonio
- 1991 · High Heels as Regidor T.V.
- 1990 · The Ages of Lulu as Jimmy
- 1986 · Segunda Enseñanza as
- 1974 · El pícaro as Alonso de niño
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Cape Fear as Max Cady
- 1981 · El poderoso influjo de la luna as Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)
- Future · A Journey to Sundance as Self
- Future · The Loved One as
- Future · Sherman and Pacifico as Pacifico
- 1993 · Huidos as
- 1952 · Today as Self