Javier Bardem

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, and a Cannes Film Festival Award in addition to two Volpi Cups and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. A 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' western film No Country for Old Men (2007) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem has also starred in Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Sam Mendes's James Bond spy film Skyfall (2012), Terrence Malick's drama To the Wonder (2013), Darren Aronofsky's horror film mother! (2017), Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama Everybody Knows (2018), Denis Villeneuve's science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), and Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023). Bardem has been married since 2010 to actress Penélope Cruz, with whom he shares two children. In January 2018, Bardem became the ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica.

Known For: Acting

Born: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, 1969-03-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	El poderoso influjo de la luna	Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)	40
2	1990	The Ages of Lulu	Jimmy	63
3	1991	High Heels	Regidor T.V.	71
4	1992	Amo tu cama rica	Antonio	60
5	1992	Jamon Jamon	Raúl	62
6	1993	The Bilingual Lover	Limpiabotas	40
7	1993	Huidos		20
8	1993	Golden Balls	Benito González	55
9	1994	The Tit & the Moon	Benito González	62
10	1994	The Detective and Death	Det. Cornelio	36
11	1994	Running Out of Time	Lisardo	60
12	1995	La madre	Hijo	50
13	1995	Mouth to Mouth	Víctor Ventura	53
14	1996	Extasis	Rober	60
15	1996	Not Love, Just Frenzy		58
16	1997	Airbag	José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'	65
17	1997	Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health	Stretcher Bearer	62
18	1997	Live Flesh	David de Paz	70
19	1997	Dance with the Devil	Romeo Dolorosa	66
20	1998	Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law	Sultán (uncredited)	64
21	1999	Between Your Legs	Javier	53
22	1999	Washington Wolves	Alberto	44
23	1999	Second Skin	Diego	58
24	2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas	66
25	2001	Don't Tempt Me	Tony Graco	55
26	2002	The Dancer Upstairs	Agustín Rejas	62
27	2002	Mondays in the Sun	Santa	72
28	2004	Collateral	Felix Reyes-Torrena	72
29	2004	The Sea Inside	Ramón Sampedro	76
30	2005	El oficio de actor	Itself	0
31	2006	Hécuba: un sueño de pasión	Self	80
32	2006	Goya's Ghosts	Lorenzo Casamares	66
33	2007	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh	79
34	2007	Love in the Time of Cholera	Florentino Ariza	66
35	2008	Diary of a Country Sheriff	Self	80
36	2008	No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes	Self	63
37	2008	Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze	El chorizo (archive footage)	0
38	2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Juan Antonio Gonzalo	68
39	2009	Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…	Self	66
40	2010	Eat Pray Love	Felipe	62
41	2010	Biutiful	Uxbal	72
42	2010	14 Actors Acting	Self	70
43	2012	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	(archive footage)	75
44	2012	Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony	Self - Narrator	65
45	2012	Skyfall	Silva	72
46	2013	L'Agent	Construction Worker	10
47	2013	To the Wonder	Father Quintana	58
48	2013	Scorpion in Love	Solis	65
49	2013	The Counselor	Reiner	53
50	2014	Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'	Self	50
51	2014	Automata	Blue Robot (voice)	59
52	2015	The Gunman	Felix Marti	57
53	2017	The Last Face	Dr. Miguel Leon	55
54	2017	Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait	Self (archive footage)	73
55	2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Armando Salazar	67
56	2017	mother!	Him	70
57	2017	Loving Pablo	Pablo Escobar	63
58	2017	mother! The Downward Spiral	Self	86
59	2018	Thy Kingdom Come	Father Quintana	63
60	2018	Everybody Knows	Paco	65
61	2018	Querido Fotogramas	Self	40
62	2019	Sanctuary	Javier Bardem	72
63	2020	The Roads Not Taken	Leo	55
64	2021	Being James Bond	Self (archive footage)	77
65	2021	Dune	Stilgar	78
66	2021	The Good Boss	Julio Blanco	70
67	2021	Being the Ricardos	Desi Arnaz	65
68	2022	Cruce de caminos	Self	20
69	2022	Look at Me	Leo	45
70	2022	Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile	Hector P. Valenti	70
71	2023	Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages	Self (archive)	52
72	2023	The Little Mermaid	King Triton	63
73	2023	The Eternal Memory	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	80
74	2024	Dune: Part Two	Stilgar	82
75	2024	Walking Fernando	Fernando	0
76	2024	Spellbound	King Solon (voice)	67
77	2025	F1	Ruben	0
78		Sherman and Pacifico	Pacifico	0
79		The Loved One		0
80		A Journey to Sundance	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Today	Self	55
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
3	1974	El pícaro	Alonso de niño	70
4	1986	Segunda Enseñanza		10
5	1992	Crónicas del mal		0
6	1995	Lo + plus	Self - Guest	0
7	2002	E! Live from the Red Carpet	Self	32
8	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
9	2010	Conan	Self	70
10	2012	Buenas noches y Buenafuente	Self - Guest	47
11	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
12	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	58
13	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
14	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	44
15	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
16	2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	Inigo Montoya	75
17	2022	Monster	José Menéndez	0
18	2024	Monsters	José Menendez	76
19		Cape Fear	Max Cady	0