Javier Bardem

Acting · 6.4 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: March 1, 1969
From: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Biography

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, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Goya Awards, in addition to a Cannes Film Festival Award and two Volpi Cups. Bardem is the 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' crime 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 Eat Pray Love (2010), 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), Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023), and the sports action film F1 (2025). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024), for which he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series (as an executive producer). Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010 and together they have two children. In January 2018, Bardem became the ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

82 films

20257.8

Dune

20217.8

Dune: Part Two

20248.1

No Country for Old Men

20077.9

Dune: Part Three

2026

The Little Mermaid

20236.3

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

20176.7

Skyfall

20127.3

Collateral

20047.2

Eat Pray Love

20106.2

mother!

20177.0

The Counselor

20135.3

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

20227.0

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

20086.8

The Tit and the Moon

19946.2

Spellbound

20246.6

Automata

20145.9

The Gunman

20155.8

Loving Pablo

20176.3

Jamon Jamon

19926.2

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition

20268.7

Live Flesh

19977.0

The Ages of Lulu

19906.4

The Sea Inside

20047.6

Love in the Time of Cholera

20076.7

Biutiful

20107.2

Querido Fotogramas

20184.0

Scorpion in Love

20136.2

To the Wonder

20135.8

High Heels

19917.0

Everybody Knows

20186.5

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law

19986.5

The Last Face

20175.5

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Being the Ricardos

20216.5

Goya's Ghosts

20066.6

Golden Balls

19935.5

The Good Boss

20216.9

Before Night Falls

20006.7

Dance with the Devil

19976.5

The Dancer Upstairs

20026.1

Walking Fernando

20245.0

Hello & Paris

2026

Bunker

2027

The Beloved

20267.0

Running Out of Time

19945.9

The Roads Not Taken

20205.5

Between Your Legs

19995.4

Don't Tempt Me

20015.6

Airbag

19976.6

A Journey to Sundance

2023

Huidos

19935.5

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…

20096.5

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

19976.1

Sanctuary

20197.2

Extasis

19965.8

Second Skin

19995.7

The Bilingual Lover

19934.0

El oficio de actor

200510.0

MAMBRÚ

1996

mother! The Downward Spiral

20178.5

The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'

2008

Cruce de caminos

20223.5

Mondays in the Sun

20027.2

Mouth to Mouth

19955.3

Washington Wolves

19994.7

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'

20145.7

The Powerful Influence Of The Moon

19815.7

El mundo es tuyo

2004

The Detective and Death

19943.8

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

20086.9

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión

20068.0

Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony

20126.5

Sherman and Pacifico

2026

Amo tu cama rica

19926.7

Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood

2007

Thy Kingdom Come

20186.3

La madre

19955.3

Wet

2026

Look at Me

20224.5

Porto Rico

2026

Not Love, Just Frenzy

19965.8