Javier Bardem
Gender: Male
Born: 1st March 1969 (currently 42 years old)
Nationality: Spain
Movies: Before Night Falls, Live Flesh, Goya's Ghosts, Mondays In The Sun, The Sea Inside, Perdita Durango, The Dancer Upstairs, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Silence, El Amante Bilingüe, Huevos de oro, Jamón, jamón, Second Skin, Love in the Time of Cholera, No Country for Old Men, Running Out of Time, Between Your Legs, Mouth to Mouth, Collateral, Killing Pablo, Eat Pray Love, Biutiful, Ecstacy, Skyfall, The Dark Tower, Zoom In: Stories Behind the 2007 Gotham Awards, Don't Tempt Me, Washington Wolves, Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley, Airbag, Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health, Not Love, Just Frenzy, La madre, The Detective and Death, The Tit and the Moon, Amo tu cama rica, Tacones lejanos, Las edades de Lulú, Untitled Terrence Malick Project, James Bond Film Series
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ βaɾˈðen]; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, and 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.
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, lost to Russell Crowe for Gladiator), 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 de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (Spain). His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague, was a businessman who was involved in environmental work; the two separated shortly after his birth. His mother
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