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Personal Info

Birth date

1969-03-01 (56 Years)

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Also known as

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem
خافيير باردم
하비에르 바르뎀
哈維爾·巴登
ハビエル・バルデム
คาเบียร์ บาร์เดน
خاویر باردم
ხავიერ ბარდემი
Хавʼєр Бардем

Javier Bardem

Biography

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.

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Filmography

Acting

TBACape Fear (1 Episode) as Max Cady

TBAThe Making of 'Dune: Part Two' as Unknown

TBABunker as Unknown

TBAThe Beloved as Unknown

TBASherman and Pacifico as Pacifico

2025F1 The Movie as Ruben Cervantes

2024Spellbound as King Solon (voice)

2024Monsters (9 Episodes) as José Menendez

2024Conan O'Brien Must Go (1 Episode) as Self

2024Walking Fernando as Fernando

2024Dune: Part Two as Stilgar

2023The Eternal Memory as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023The Little Mermaid as King Triton

2023Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages as Self (archive)

2022Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile as Hector P. Valenti

2022Look at Me as Leo

2022Cruce de caminos as Self

2021Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz

2021The Good Boss as Julio Blanco

2021Dune as Stilgar

2021Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)

2021A Journey to Sundance as Self

2020Home Movie: The Princess Bride (1 Episode) as Inigo Montoya

2020The Roads Not Taken as Leo

2019Sanctuary as Javier Bardem

2018Querido Fotogramas as Self

2018Everybody Knows as Paco

2018Thy Kingdom Come as Father Quintana

2017mother! The Downward Spiral as Self

2017Loving Pablo as Pablo Escobar

2017mother! as Him

2017Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Armando Salazar

2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)

2017The Last Face as Dr. Miguel Leon

2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2 Episodes) as Self

2015The Gunman as Felix Marti

2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2 Episodes) as Self

2014Automata as Blue Robot (voice)

2014Late Night with Seth Meyers (1 Episode) as Self

2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1 Episode) as Self

2014Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self

2014Off Camera with Sam Jones (1 Episode) as Self

2013The Counselor as Reiner

2013Scorpion in Love as Solis

2013To the Wonder as Father Quintana

2013L'Agent as Construction Worker

2012Skyfall as Silva

2012Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony as Self - Narrator

2012Buenas noches y Buenafuente (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)

201014 Actors Acting as Self

2010Conan (1 Episode) as Self

2010Biutiful as Uxbal

2010Eat Pray Love as Felipe

2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self

2008Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo

2008Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze as El chorizo (archive footage)

2008Diary of a Country Sheriff as Self

2008No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self

2008The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' as Self

2007Love in the Time of Cholera as Florentino Ariza

2007No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh

2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self

2006Goya's Ghosts as Lorenzo Casamares

2006Hécuba: un sueño de pasión as Self

2006El hormiguero (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

2005El oficio de actor as Itself

2004The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro

2004Collateral as Felix Reyes-Torrena

2002Mondays in the Sun as Santa

2002The Dancer Upstairs as Agustín Rejas

2002E! Live from the Red Carpet (1 Episode) as Self

2001Don't Tempt Me as Tony Graco

2000Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas

1999Second Skin as Diego

1999Washington Wolves as Alberto

1999Between Your Legs as Javier

1998Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law as Sultán (uncredited)

1997Dance with the Devil as Romeo Dolorosa

1997Live Flesh as David de Paz

1997Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health as Stretcher Bearer

1997Airbag as José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'

1996Not Love, Just Frenzy as Unknown

1996Extasis as Rober

1995Mouth to Mouth as Víctor Ventura

1995La madre as Hijo

1995Lo + plus (1 Episode) as Self - Guest

1994Running Out of Time as Lisardo

1994The Detective and Death as Det. Cornelio

1994The Tit & the Moon as Benito González

1993Golden Balls as Benito González

1993Huidos as Unknown

1993The Bilingual Lover as Limpiabotas

1992Jamon Jamon as Raúl

1992Crónicas del mal (13 Episodes) as Unknown

1992Amo tu cama rica as Antonio

1991High Heels as Regidor T.V.

1990The Ages of Lulu as Jimmy

1986Segunda Enseñanza (13 Episodes) as Unknown

1981El poderoso influjo de la luna as Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)

1974El pícaro (13 Episodes) as Alonso de niño

1953The Oscars (2 Episodes) as Self

1952Today (1 Episode) as Self

Production

TBACape Fear (1 Episode) ... Executive Producer

2024Monsters (9 Episodes) ... Executive Producer

2019Sanctuary ... Producer

2018Thy Kingdom Come ... Producer

2017Loving Pablo ... Producer

2017Bigas x Bigas ... Executive Producer

2012Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony ... Producer