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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem ( spanish pronunciation : [ xaˈβjeɾ βaɾˈðen ] ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] born 1 March 1969 ) is a spanish actor. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers ‘ modern western play film No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ). He besides received critical acclaim for his roles in films such as Jamón Jamón ( 1992 ), Boca a boca ( 1995 ), Carne trémula ( 1997 ), Los lunes al sol ( 2002 ), and Mar adentro ( 2004 ). Bardem besides starred in Woody Allen ‘s quixotic play Vicky Cristina Barcelona ( 2008 ), Sam Mendes ‘s James Bond spy film Skyfall ( 2012 ), Terrence Malick ‘s play To the Wonder ( 2013 ), Darren Aronofsky ‘s psychological horror film mother! ( 2017 ), Asghar Farhadi ‘s mystery drama Everybody Knows ( 2018 ) and Denis Villeneuve ‘s science fabrication drama Dune ( 2021 ).

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Bardem has been nominated for two extra Academy Awards, once for Julian Schnabel ‘s Before Night Falls ( 2000 ) and the early for Alejandro González Iñárritu ‘s Biutiful ( 2010 ). Bardem is the inaugural spanish actor to be nominated for an Academy Award ( Best Actor for Before Night Falls in 2001 ) american samoa well as the first, and to date, only spanish actor to win one ( Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men in 2008 ). additionally, he has received respective other accolades, including two shield Actors Guild Awards, a british Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, five Goya Awards, two european Film Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor ( tied with Elio Germano ), and two Volpi Cups for Best Actor at Venice Film Festival. In January 2018, Bardem became ambassador of Greenpeace for the security of Antarctica. [ 4 ]

early life [edit ]

Bardem was born on 1 March 1969 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Pilar Bardem ( born María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz, 1939–2021 ), was an actress, and his founder, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague ( 1931–1995 ), was the son of a cattle rancher. [ 5 ] According to Pilar ‘s memoirs, José had a “ capricious and crimson will, ” and shot up the front door. He changed jobs more than 10 times, leading to evictions and the children going hungry. The two separated concisely after Javier ‘s birth, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and his beget raised him and his elder siblings, Carlos and Mónica, alone. ( Another sibling died shortly after parturition. ) His father died of leukemia in 1995. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] Bardem comes from a long channel of filmmakers and actors dating back to the earliest days of spanish film ; he is a grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and a nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. [ 9 ] Both siblings are actors. He besides comes from a political background, as his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. [ 8 ] Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic religion by his grandma. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] As a child, he spent time at theatres and on film sets. [ 8 ] At age six, he made his first gear film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómez ‘s El Pícaro ( The Scoundrel ). [ 8 ] [ 12 ] He besides played rugby for the junior spanish National Team. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Though he grew up in a syndicate full of actors, Bardem did not see himself going into the family business. actually, painting was his inaugural love. [ 15 ] He went on to study painting for four years at Madrid ‘s Escuela de Artes y Oficios. [ 13 ] [ 16 ] In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting, but he besides says he was a bad painter and finally abandoned that career pursuit. [ 15 ] In 1989, for the spanish drollery prove 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. [ 17 ] Bardem has confessed to having worked as a stripper ( for one day only ) during his struggling acting career. [ 18 ]

career [edit ]

1990s : early on function [edit ]

Bardem came to notice in a minor role in his first major apparent motion movie, The Ages of Lulu, when he was 21, in which he appeared along with his mother, Pilar Bardem. He besides appeared in minor roles in Amo tu cama rica and High Heels. [ 19 ] Bigas Luna, the director of Lulu, was sufficiently impressed to give him the leading male function in his next movie, Jamón Jamón in 1992, in which Bardem played a manque underwear model and bullfighter. The film, which besides starred his eventual wife Penélope Cruz, was a major international achiever. [ 13 ] Bardem featured in Sancho Gracia ‘s Huidos, [ 19 ] and starred in Bigas Luna ‘s adjacent movie Golden Balls ( 1993 ). Bardem ‘s endowment did not go unnoticed in the english-speaking world. In 1997, John Malkovich was the beginning to approach him, then a 27-year-old, for a character in English, but the spanish actor turned down the offer because his english was placid poor. [ 14 ] [ 20 ] His first english-speaking function came that same year, in with director Álex de la Iglesia ‘s Perdita Durango, playing a santería -practicing bank robber .

2000s : discovery and critical applaud [edit ]

After starring in about two twelve films in his native country, he gained external recognition in Julian Schnabel ‘s Before Night Falls in 2000, portraying Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. [ 13 ] He received praise from his paragon Al Pacino ; the message Pacino left on Bardem ‘s answering machine was something he considers one of the most beautiful gifts he has always received. [ 8 ] For that function, he received a nominating speech for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first for a Spaniard. immediately after, he turned down the function of Danny Witwer in Minority Report which finally went to Colin Farrell. [ 21 ] alternatively, in 2002, Bardem starred in Malkovich ‘s directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs. Malkovich in the first place had Bardem in mind for the function of the detective ‘s adjunct, but the movie ‘s time trying to find finance gave Bardem time to learn english and take on the lead role of the detective. “ I will constantly be grateful to him because he very gave me my very first luck to work in English ”, Bardem has said of Malkovich. [ 14 ] [ 20 ] Bardem won Best actor at the Venice Film Festival for his function in Mar Adentro ( 2004 ), released in the United States as The Sea Inside, in which he portrayed the quadriplegic turned help suicide activist Ramón Sampedro. He made his Hollywood debut in a brief appearance as a crime godhead who summons Tom Cruise ‘s gunman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses in the crime drama Collateral. He stars in Miloš Forman ‘s 2006 film Goya’s Ghosts opposite Natalie Portman, where he plays a wind monk during the spanish Inquisition. [ 22 ]
In 2007, Bardem acted in two film adaptations : the Coen Brothers ‘ No Country for Old Men, and the adaptation of the colombian novel Love in the Time of Cholera with Giovanna Mezzogiorno by Gabriel García Márquez. In No Country for Old Men, he played a sociopathic assassin, Anton Chigurh. For that role, he became the first Spaniard to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. [ 23 ] He besides won a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Critics ‘ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the 2008 british Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem ‘s rendition of Chigurh ‘s trademark parole, “ What business is it of yours where I ‘m from, friendo ? ” ( in answer to the convenience storehouse owner ‘s question, “ Y’all gettin ‘ any rain up your manner ? “ ), [ 24 ] was named Top HollyWORDIE of 2007 in the annual survey by the Global Language Monitor. [ 25 ] Chigurh was named No. 26 in Entertainment Weekly magazine ‘s 2008 “ 50 Most nauseating Villains in Movie History ” list. [ 26 ] Bardem ‘s life ‘s work was honored at the 2007 Gotham Awards, produced by Independent Feature Project. Francis Ford Coppola singled out Bardem as an successor to, and tied improvement on, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro, referring to Bardem as ambitious, hungry, unwilling to rest on his laurels and always “ excited to do something good. ” [ 8 ] Bardem was attached to play the function of Tetro ‘s mentor in Coppola ‘s film Tetro, but the film director felt the character should be female, so he was replaced by chap Spaniard Carmen Maura. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Bardem was primitively cast to play fabricated film maker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Broadway melodious Nine, but dropped out due to exhaustion. [ 27 ] [ 29 ] The part finally went to Daniel Day-Lewis. [ 30 ] He went on to star alongside Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen ‘s Vicky Cristina Barcelona ( 2008 ) .

2010-present : cosmopolitan recognition [edit ]

In 2010, he 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 heed. [ 15 ] After being overlooked by the Globes and SAG, Bardem was the unexpected Oscar campaigner on 25 January 2011, becoming the foremost all Spanish-language Best Actor campaigner ever. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] He won his fifth Goya Award, this time for Best Actor in Biutiful, dedicating the gain to his wife, Penélope Cruz, and newborn son. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Around this lapp time he was offered the lead role of “ Gunslinger ” Roland Deschain in Ron Howard ‘s adaptation of Stephen King ‘s Dark Tower novels. If he had signed, he would have starred in the television receiver series as well. then Eon Productions offered him a function as villain Raoul Silva in the James Bond film, Skyfall. [ 35 ] With Universal deciding not to go forth with the ultra-ambitious adaptation of the Stephen King 7-novel series, and to end months of meditation, Bardem officially confirmed his function in Skyfall during an interview with Christiane Amanpour for ABC ‘s Nightline. [ 36 ] [ 37 ]
Bardem received the 2,484th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 8 November 2012. The star is located outside the El Capitan Theatre. [ 38 ] With his movie Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony ( 2012 ), [ 39 ] he demonstrated the suffer of the Sahrawi people in refugee camps. [ 40 ] He publicly denounced the UN as unwilling to definitively resolve the human crisis there. [ 41 ]

Bardem portrayed the main antagonist, Armando Salazar, in 2017 ‘s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth film in the serial. [ 42 ] In September 2017, Bardem starred with Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Ed Harris in the repugnance movie Mother! from director Darren Aronofsky, which focuses on a couple whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of unexpected guests. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] In 2018, Bardem once again appeared on screen alongside his spouse Penélope Cruz in Asghar Farhadi ‘s feature film Everybody Knows. [ 45 ]

Upcoming projects [edit ]

Bardem was set to play Frankenstein ‘s Monster in the approaching remake of the Bride of Frankenstein, directed by Bill Condon. [ 46 ] In February 2019, Bardem was cast as Stilgar in the approaching Denis Villeneuve film Dune. [ 47 ] He is set to play King Triton in Disney ‘s bouncy action/CGI movie, The Little Mermaid. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] In January 2021, Bardem and Nicole Kidman entered negotiations to star in Amazon Studios and Aaron Sorkin ‘s Being the Ricardos, where they will play Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. [ 50 ]

personal animation [edit ]

Bardem ‘s native language is spanish and he is besides eloquent in English. He is a sports fan of intemperate metallic music, and credits the band AC/DC for helping him learn to speak English, in some respects. [ 15 ] Bardem prefers not to drive, only getting behind the wheel for film roles, [ 13 ] [ 51 ] and he systematically refers to himself as a “ actor ”, and not an actor. [ 51 ] Although Bardem was raised as a Catholic, he is now agnostic. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005, Bardem stated that if he were gay, he would get marry “ right away tomorrow, just to fuck with the church ” ( mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia ). [ 54 ] He has by and by said that while he does not believe powerfully in the supernatural, he does not deny it. “ We are barely this little bantam spot in the whole universe, so of course there must be other things, other people, early creatures, early lives and other dimensions. certain, I believe in it ”. In the lapp interview, Bardem stated that he thinks science and impression “ should go together ”. [ 55 ] Despite the nefarious characters he has played throughout his acting career, Bardem has a self-confessed “ hatred ” of violence which stems from a fight in a cabaret in his early twenties which left him with a break nose. [ 56 ] In May 2011 Bardem teamed up with The Enough Project ‘s co-founder John Prendergast to raise awareness about conflict minerals in eastern Congo. [ 57 ] In 2007, Bardem began dating Penélope Cruz, his co-star in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Bardem and Cruz have maintained a moo populace profile, [ 58 ] refusing to discuss their personal lives. [ 15 ] The couple married in July 2010 in The Bahamas. [ 59 ] They have two children : a son, named Leo Encinas Cruz, born on 23 January 2011, [ 60 ] in Los Angeles ; and a daughter, named Luna Encinas Cruz, born on 22 July 2013, in Madrid. [ 61 ] During the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Bardem and Cruz signed an open letter denouncing Israel ‘s actions as a genocide. [ 62 ] In September 2018, at the Toronto Film Festival premier of Everybody Knows, Bardem told Ikon London Magazine about acting together with his spouse : “ 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 concern than any fabrication. And it is real number. ” [ 63 ] In July 2019, Bardem signed a manifesto promoting PSOE and Podemos parties to reach an agreement to form politics after the April 2019 elections in Spain. [ 64 ] In Madrid, in November 2019 during March for Climate, Bardem gave a actor’s line on stage where he called both the mayor of Madrid José Luis Martínez-Almeida and the US president of the united states, “ stupid. ” He late apologized, declaring that, “ the insult illegitimates any language and conversation. ” [ 65 ]

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