Filmography Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In 2007, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. He has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro. He portrayed the main antagonist Raoul Silva in the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall. 
 
As well as the Academy Award, Bardem has been awarded a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya awards, two European Film Awards, a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Coppa Volpis at Venice for his work. He is the first Spaniard to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls), as well as the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award. He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, for the film Biutiful. 
 
Bardem was born in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands (Spain). His mother, Pilar Bardem (née María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz), is an actress, and his father, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague, was a businessman involved in environmental work. The two separated shortly after his birth. 
His mother raised him alone. Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors dating back to the earliest days of Spanish cinema; he is a grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors. He also comes from a very political background, in which his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith by his grandmother. 
 
As a child, he hung around theatres and film sets. 
At age six, he made his first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómez's El Pícaro (The Scoundre). 
He also played rugby for the underage Spanish National Team. 
Though he grew up in a family full of actors, Bardem did not see himself going into the family business. Actually, painting was his first love. 
He went on to study painting for four years at Madrid's Escuela de Artes y Oficios. 
In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting, but he also says he was a bad painter and eventually abandoned that career pursuit. 
In 1989, for the Spanish comedy show El Día Por Delante (The Day Ahead), he had to wear a Superman costume for a comedic sketch, a job that made him question whether he wanted to be an actor at all. 
Bardem has confessed to having worked as a stripper (for one day only) during his struggling acting career.

Filmography Javier Bardem

The Last Face - Drama
April 2017

The Last Face

Drama Directed by: Sean PennWith: Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem,...The Last Face centers around a love affair between Dr. Miguel Leon (Academy Award® winner, Javier Bardem), a relief-aid doctor, and Dr. Wren Petersen (Academy Award® winner, Charlize Theron), the director of an international aid organization. Set against the devastating backdrop of war-torn... Read more...
Eat, Pray, Love - Drama
October 2010

Eat, Pray, Love

Drama Directed by: Ryan MurphyWith: Julia Roberts, Richard Jenkins, Javier BardemLiz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of... Read more...

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