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| Born | Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem March 1 1969 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is an Academy Award, four-time Goya Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe-winning Spanish actor. He has made over two dozen films in his native country, but became an international star with his starring role in the critically acclaimed Before Night Falls. With this role, he became the first Spanish actor ever to receive an Academy Award nomination. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for his performance as the antagonist Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.
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He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, the son of Carlos Encinas and the actress Pilar Bardem.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800023079/bio 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.Rodriguez, Rene. "Javier Bardem Comes Across", The New York Times, 2000-12-17. Retrieved on 2007-10-12. Both his older brother and his older sister, Carlos and Mónica Bardem, are actors. His film debut was at the age of six in the film El Pícaro (The Scoundrel) and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, athletics. Before acting professionally, Bardem was a member of the Spanish national rugby team.Pierce, Nev. "Interview with Javier Bardem", bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
Bardem starred in his two 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. After starring in roughly two dozen films in his native country, he would eventually land his international breakthrough performance role 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. This also marked Bardem\'s first English language speaking role. 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 , who unsuccessfully brought his case to the Spanish courts, yet eventually succeeded in persuading several friends to assist him and commited suicide. That year he also made a brief appearance as a vicious crime lord who summons Tom Cruise\'s hitman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses, in Michael Mann\'s crime drama Collateral, which also starred Jamie Foxx. In 2007 Bardem acted in two film adaptations; the Coen Brothers\' No Country for Old Men, based upon the novel of the same name and the adaptation of the classic Colombian novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. In No Country for Old Men, he plays chilling sociopath hitman 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, and also won the Critics\' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem\'s rendition of Chigurth\'s trademark phrase, "Call it, friendo" was named Top HollyWORDIE of 2007 in the annual survey by the Global Language Monitor that tracks the words from Hollywood that most influenced the English Language.http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/decides/amigo/elpepucul/20080310elpepucul_8/Tes
He will star in Woody Allen\'s film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Bardem is currently in talks to play fictional filmmaker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine. The part of Guido Contini had previously been played by Raul Julia in the original 1982 production and more recently by Antonio Banderas in the Tony Award-winning 2003 revival also starring Mary Stuart Masterson, Jane Krakowski, Chita Rivera, and Laura Benanti. The film is to be directed by Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award-winner Rob Marshall and is scheduled for release in 2008.
Bardem does not know how to drive and consistently refers to himself as a "worker" and not an actor."OSCAR FILMS/ACTORS; \'Don\'t Call Me Actor,\' says a Nominee for Best, Um . . .", The New York Times, 2001-03-04. Retrieved on 2007-10-12. 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 piss the church off" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia)http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=640998. Bardem\'s life\'s work was recently honored at the 2007 Gotham Awards, produced by IFP (Independent Feature Project).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1990 | Las edades de Lulú | Jimmy | |
| 1991 | Tacones Lejanos | Regidor T.V. | |
| 1992 | Jamón, jamón | El chorizo | |
| 1993 | Huevos de oro | Benito González | |
| El Amante Bilingüe | El limpiabotas | ||
| 1994 | Running Out of Time (Días contados) | Lisardo | |
| The Detective and Death (El detective y la muerte) | Detective Cornelio | ||
| 1995 | Mouth to Mouth (Boca a boca) | Victor Ventura | |
| 1996 | Éxtasis | Rober | |
| 1997 | Live Flesh | David | |
| Perdita Durango | Romeo Dolorosa | ||
| 1999 | Second Skin | Diego | |
| Washington Wolves (Los Lobos de Washington) | Alberto | ||
| 2000 | Before Night Falls | Reinaldo Arenas | 2000 Academy Award nominee for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Agustín Rejas | |
| Mondays in the Sun | Santa | ||
| 2004 | Collateral | Felix | |
| The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) | Ramón Sampedro | ||
| 2006 | Goya\'s Ghosts | Brother Lorenzo | |
| 2007 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Florentino Ariza | |
| No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh | 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
| 2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | TBA | |
| 2009 | Killing Pablo | Pablo Escobar | pre-production |
| Nine | Guido Contini | pre-production | |
| Tetro | TBA | pre-production |
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 2008 for No Country for Old Men | Succeeded by TBD |
| Preceded by Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine | BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor 2007 for No Country for Old Men | Succeeded by TBD |
| Preceded by Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture 2007 for No Country for Old Men | Succeeded by TBD |
| Preceded by Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for No Country for Old Men 2008 | Succeeded by TBD |
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