About
Javier Bardem
Overview
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career that has lasted over thirty years, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, seven Goya Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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 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 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), and Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024).
Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010, and they have two children together. In January 2018, Bardem became Greenpeace's ambassador for Antarctica's protection.
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Known for
Acting |
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| 2025 | F1 | Actor | Ruben Cervantes | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Spellbound | Actor | King Solon (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2024 | Monsters | Actor | José Menendez | 74 Good |
| 2024 | Walking Fernando | Actor | Fernando | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Actor | Stilgar | 79 Good |
| 2023 | The Eternal Memory | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 61 Fair |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | Actor | King Triton | 62 Fair |
| 2023 | Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages | Actor | Self (archive) | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Actor | Hector P. Valenti | 64 Fair |
| 2022 | Look at Me | Actor | Leo | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Cruce de caminos | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Being the Ricardos | Actor | Desi Arnaz | 62 Fair |
| 2021 | The Good Boss | Actor | Julio Blanco | 63 Fair |
| 2021 | Dune | Actor | Stilgar | 77 Good |
| 2021 | Being James Bond | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 61 Fair |
| 2020 | The Roads Not Taken | Actor | Leo | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Sanctuary | Actor | Javier Bardem | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Querido Fotogramas | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Everybody Knows | Actor | Paco | 62 Fair |
| 2018 | Thy Kingdom Come | Actor | Father Quintana | 59 Average |
| 2017 | mother! The Downward Spiral | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Loving Pablo | Actor | Pablo Escobar | 61 Fair |
| 2017 | mother! | Actor | Him | 68 Fair |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Actor | Armando Salazar | 66 Fair |
| 2017 | Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2017 | The Last Face | Actor | Dr. Miguel Leon | 57 Average |
| 2015 | The Gunman | Actor | Felix Marti | 57 Average |
| 2014 | Automata | Actor | Blue Robot (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2013 | The Counselor | Actor | Reiner | 54 Average |
| 2013 | Scorpion in Love | Actor | Solis | 59 Average |
| 2013 | To the Wonder | Actor | Father Quintana | 58 Average |
| 2013 | L'Agent | Actor | Construction Worker | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Actor | Silva | 71 Good |
| 2012 | Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony | Actor | Self - Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | Actor | (archive footage) | 60 Fair |
| 2010 | 14 Actors Acting | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Biutiful | Actor | Uxbal | 67 Fair |
| 2010 | Eat Pray Love | Actor | Felipe | 61 Fair |
| 2009 | Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Actor | Juan Antonio Gonzalo | 66 Fair |
| 2008 | Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze | Actor | El chorizo (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | Diary of a Country Sheriff | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2008 | No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2008 | The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Actor | Florentino Ariza | 61 Fair |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Actor | Anton Chigurh | 78 Good |
| 2006 | Goya's Ghosts | Actor | Lorenzo Casamares | 62 Fair |
| 2006 | Hécuba: un sueño de pasión | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2005 | El oficio de actor | Actor | Itself | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | The Sea Inside | Actor | Ramón Sampedro | 69 Fair |
| 2004 | Collateral | Actor | Felix Reyes-Torrena | 70 Good |
| 2002 | Mondays in the Sun | Actor | Santa | 62 Fair |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Actor | Agustín Rejas | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Don't Tempt Me | Actor | Tony Graco | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Before Night Falls | Actor | Reinaldo Arenas | 61 Fair |
| 1999 | Second Skin | Actor | Diego | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Washington Wolves | Actor | Alberto | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Between Your Legs | Actor | Javier | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law | Actor | Sultán (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 1997 | Dance with the Devil | Actor | Romeo Dolorosa | 60 Fair |
| 1997 | Live Flesh | Actor | David de Paz | 65 Fair |
| 1997 | Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health | Actor | Stretcher Bearer | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Airbag | Actor | José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto' | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Not Love, Just Frenzy | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1996 | Extasis | Actor | Rober | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Mouth to Mouth | Actor | Víctor Ventura | 58 Average |
| 1995 | La madre | Actor | Hijo | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Running Out of Time | Actor | Lisardo | 58 Average |
| 1994 | The Detective and Death | Actor | Det. Cornelio | 58 Average |
| 1994 | The Tit & the Moon | Actor | Benito González | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Golden Balls | Actor | Benito González | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Huidos | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1993 | The Bilingual Lover | Actor | Limpiabotas | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Jamon Jamon | Actor | Raúl | 60 Fair |
| 1992 | Crónicas del mal | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1992 | Amo tu cama rica | Actor | Antonio | 59 Average |
| 1991 | High Heels | Actor | Regidor T.V. | 64 Fair |
| 1990 | The Ages of Lulu | Actor | Jimmy | 60 Fair |
| 1986 | Segunda Enseñanza | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1981 | El poderoso influjo de la luna | Actor | Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1974 | El pícaro | Actor | Alonso de niño | 70 Good |
| The Beloved | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| A Journey to Sundance | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
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| Sherman and Pacifico | Actor | Pacifico | N/A N/A |
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| Dune: Part Three | Actor | Stilgar | N/A N/A |
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| Cape Fear | Actor | Max Cady | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2024 | Monsters | Production | Executive Producer | 74 Good |
| 2019 | Sanctuary | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Thy Kingdom Come | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Loving Pablo | Production | Producer | 61 Fair |
| 2017 | Bigas x Bigas | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
| Cape Fear | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
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