Javier Bardem
Born: 1969-03-01 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Known For: Acting
Biography
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, 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. Bardem is the 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' crime 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 Eat Pray Love (2010), 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), Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023), and the sports action film F1 (2025). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024), for which he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series (as an executive producer). Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010 and together they have two children. In January 2018, Bardem became the ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- Cape Fear as Maximiliano 'Max' Cady
- Dune: Part Three as Stilgar
- Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition as Self
- Bunker
- The Beloved as Esteban Martínez
2025
- F1 as Ruben Cervantes
- All That's Left of You ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Dune: Part Two as Stilgar
- Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story as José Menendez
- Conan O'Brien Must Go as Self
- Spellbound as King Solon (voice)
- Walking Fernando as Fernando
2023
- The Little Mermaid as King Triton
- A Journey to Sundance as Self
2022
- Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile as Hector P. Valenti
- Hermanos Menendez: Mal juzgados? as José Menendez
- Cruce de caminos as Self
- Look at Me as Leo
2021
- Dune as Stilgar
- La Noche D as Self - Guest
- The Good Boss as Julio Blanco
- Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz
2020
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Inigo Montoya
- The Roads Not Taken as Leo
2019
- Sanctuary as Javier Bardem
2018
- Everybody Knows as Paco
- Querido Fotogramas as Self
- Thy Kingdom Come as Father Quintana
2017
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Armando Salazar
- mother! as Him
- Loving Pablo as Pablo Escobar
- The Last Face as Dr. Miguel Leon
- Bigas x Bigas ... (Executive Producer)
- mother! The Downward Spiral as Self
2016
- WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews as Self - Guest
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- The Gunman as Felix Marti
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- Automata as Blue Robot (voice)
- Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
2013
- The Counselor as Reiner
- To the Wonder as Father Quintana
- Scorpion in Love as Solis
2012
- Skyfall as Silva
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Buenas noches y Buenafuente as Self - Guest
- Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony as Self - Narrator
2010
- Conan as Self - Guest
- Eat Pray Love as Felipe
- Biutiful as Uxbal
2009
2008
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
- The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' as Self - Anton Chigurh
- No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
- Love in the Time of Cholera as Florentino Ariza
- Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood as Self
2006
- El hormiguero as Self - Guest
- Goya's Ghosts as Lorenzo Casamares
- Hécuba: un sueño de pasión as Self
2005
- El oficio de actor as Self
2004
- Collateral as Felix Reyes-Torrena
- The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro
- El mundo es tuyo
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self - Guest
2002
- Live from E! as Self
- Mondays in the Sun as Santa
- The Dancer Upstairs as Agustín Rejas
2001
- Don't Tempt Me as Tony Graco
2000
- Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
1999
- Between Your Legs as Javier
- Second Skin as Diego
- Washington Wolves as Alberto
1998
- Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law as Sultán
1997
- Live Flesh as David de Paz
- Dance with the Devil as Romeo
- Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health as Stretcher Bearer
- Airbag as José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'
1996
- Extasis as Rober
- MAMBRÚ as Cámara
- Not Love, Just Frenzy
1995
- Lo + plus as Self - Guest
- Mouth to Mouth as Víctor Ventura
- La madre as Hijo
1994
- The Tit and the Moon as Benito González
- Running Out of Time as Lisardo
- The Detective and Death as Det. Cornelio
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Golden Balls as Benito González
- Huidos
- The Bilingual Lover as Limpiabotas
1992
- Jamon Jamon as El chorizo
- Crónicas del mal
- Amo tu cama rica as Antonio
1991
- High Heels as Regidor T.V.
1990
- The Ages of Lulu as Jimmy
1986
1984
- Jeopardy! as Self - Clue Presenter
1981
- The Powerful Influence Of The Moon as Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)
1974
- El pícaro as Alonso de niño
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self