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Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem 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.
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Born 1 March 1969 · Q134895
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2026· 10 entries
“No to war, and Free Palestine”
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“I find it very easy. In a sense that we play what we are supposed to play and then we go back to our daily life which is way more interesting than any fiction. And it is real.”
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Public attention spiked: 36,886 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 11,549, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Marriage and family WP:NONAME kids
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Public attention spiked: 37,352 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 11,549, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 63,758 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.5× the usual 11,549, with 0 article edits.
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The Guardian: Cape Fear review – Amy Adams and Javier Bardem’s immaculate update is a wild, wild ride
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The Guardian: The Beloved review – Javier Bardem turns in a career-scariest performance
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Co-signed alongside other Spanish artists a text urging the United Nations and the governments of the world to actively work towards the release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti from prison
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2025· 3 entries
“back-up of the United States”
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Bardem revealed that he is a fan of Spanish football club Atlético Madrid on the show Conan O'Brien Must Go
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“s The Beloved, due to begin filming in January 2025 in Fuerteventura. The film premiered at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian assessed that, in The Beloved, Bardem gives”
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2024· 3 entries
Stated that he still saw himself as "the son of Pilar", adding that he did not want "to be anything else"
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Bardem reprised the role of Stilgar in Dune: Part Two and worked once again with Kidman in the Netflix and Skydance Animation film, Spellbound
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Starred as José Menendez, the father of Lyle and Erik Menendez, in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which earned him nominations for Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Gui
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “The classic film “The Godfather” will be remade starring Javier Bardem and Oscar Isaac and released in 2025.” Originated as Satire.
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2022· 5 entries
The Guardian: Eye for an eye: Javier Bardem iris NFT to be sold for sight-saving charity
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Awarded Premio Feroz for Best Main Actor for The Good Boss (2022).
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Awarded Forqué Awards for Best Lead Actor for The Good Boss (2022).
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Awarded Goya Award for Best Actor for The Good Boss (2022).
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Awarded Sant Jordi Prize for Best Actor for The Good Boss (2022).
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2021· 4 entries
Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2021).
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Won Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor for The Good Boss (2021).
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Bardem portrayed Stilgar in Denis Villeneuve's science fiction film Dune
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Starred as Desi Arnaz, alongside Nicole Kidman as his on-screen wife Lucille Ball, in Amazon MGM Studios' and Aaron Sorkin's Being the Ricardos
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2018· 1 entry
Bardem once again appeared on screen alongside his spouse Cruz in Asghar Farhadi's feature film Everybody Knows
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2014· 1 entry
Belgian psychiatry professor Samuel Leistedt and 10 associates watched 400 movies over the course of three years and identified 126 psychopathic characters: Bardem's rendition of Chigurh was voted the most realistic psyc
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Skyfall (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Goya Award for Best Actor for Biutiful (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Biutiful (2010).
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Bardem was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Biutiful directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who specifically wrote the film with Bardem in mind
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for No Country for Old Men (2008).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2008).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for No Country for Old Men (2008).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for No Country for Old Men (2008).
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2007· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for No Country for Old Men (2007).
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2007).
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Bardem began dating fellow Spaniard actress Penélope Cruz; they had already known each other after appearing together in Jamón jamón
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Bardem acted in two film adaptations: the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men with Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin by Cormac McCarthy, and Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera with Giovanna Mezzogiorno by Gabriel
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Goya Award for Best Actor for The Sea Inside (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Actor for The Sea Inside (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Goya Award for Best Actor for Mondays in the Sun (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Bardem starred in Malkovich's directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for Before Night Falls (2001).
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for Before Night Falls (2000).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for Before Night Falls (2000).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor (1997).
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John Malkovich was the first to approach him, then a 27-year-old, for a role in English, but he turned down the offer because his English was still poor
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Goya Award for Best Actor for Boca a boca (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for Running Out of Time (1995).
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Awarded Premios Ondas (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
In which Bardem played a would-be underwear model and bullfighter
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1989· 1 entry
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
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1974· 1 entry
Made his first television appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómez's television series El pícaro (The Scoundrel)
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-03-01.
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