Javier Bardem
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| Born: | March 1, 1969 Las Palmas, Spain |
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| Occupation: | Actor |
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanish actor. Born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, he is the latest in a long line of a family which has been making movies since the earliest days of Spanish movie making: son of Pilar Bardem, nephew of screen writer and director Juan Antonio Bardem. His film debut was at the age of 6, and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, athletics. He was a member of the Spanish national rugby team.
In 1992 appeared in Jamón, Jamón, an international hit movie. But his role in that film as a sexy stud made him afraid that he would be typecast, and he deliberately decided to avoid such roles later. Eventually he would 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 Spaniard to be so honored.
Bardem 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 2004, he won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in The Sea Inside, a film about the true-life suicide of Ramón Sampedro. Future roles include an appearance in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming biopic Guerrilla (2007), as well as a starring role as Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar in Joe Carnahan's Killing Pablo. He is also slated to appear in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men.
Internet rumors say that Bardem may be cast in a new biopic of international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, which is to be supposedly helmed by maverick Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles.
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[edit] Nominations and awards
[edit] Academy Awards
[edit] Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival
[edit] European Film Awards
- 1998 - nominated Best Actor - Carne trémula
- 2002 - nominated Best Actor - Mondays In The Sun
- 2004 - won Best Actor - Mar adentro
[edit] Golden Globes
- 2001 - nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama - Before Night Falls
- 2005 - nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama - Mar adentro
[edit] Goya Awards
- 1993 - nominated Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Jamón, jamón
- 1994 - nominated Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Huevos de oro
- 1995 - won Mejor Actor de reparto - Best Supporting Actor - Días contados
- 1996 - won Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Boca a boca
- 1998 - nominated Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Carne trémula
- 2003 - won Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Los lunes al sol (Mondays In The Sun)
- 2005 - won Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Mar adentro
[edit] Independent Spirit Awards
- 2001 - won Best Male Lead - Before Night Falls
[edit] Venice Film Festival
- 2000 - won Volpi Cup Best Actor - Before Night Falls
- 2004 - won Volpi Cup Best Actor - Mar adentro
[edit] Controversy
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 fuck over the church" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia).
[edit] Actor credits
- Jamón, jamón (1992)
- Huevos de oro (1993)
- Mouth To Mouth (1996)
- Live Flesh (1997)
- Perdita Durango (1997)
- Second Skin (2000)
- Before Night Falls (2000)
- Between Your Legs (2003)
- The Dancer Upstairs (2003)
- Mondays In The Sun (2003)
- The Sea Inside (2004)
- Collateral (2004)
- Killing Pablo (2005)
- Goya's Ghosts (2006)
- No Country for Old Men(2007)
- Amor en tiempos de cólera (2007)
- Guerrilla (film) (2007)
