Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanishactor. He has garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.
Bardem has been awarded an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, four Goya awards, two European Film Awards and two Coppa Volpis for his work. He is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls) as well as the first to win (Supporting Actor, 2007, for No Country for Old Men).[1]
Contents[hide]
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Filmography
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
[edit] Early life
Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, the son of Carlos Encinas and the actress Pilar Bardem.[2] Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors who have been working since the earliest days of Spanish cinema; he is the grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and the nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem.[3] Both his older brother and his older sister, Carlos and Mónica Bardem, are actors. His film debut was at the age of six and a half in the film El Pícaro (The Scoundrel) and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, sports. Before acting professionally, Bardem was a member of the underage Spanish national rugby team.[4]
[edit] Career
Javier Bardem, Festimad 2007
Bardem starred in his second major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu, when he was 20. In 1992, he made his first international hit with Jamón, jamón, which also starred Penélope Cruz. His first English language speaking role came in 1997 with director Alex de la Iglesia's "Perdita Durango", playing a santeria-practicing bank robber. After starring in roughly two dozen films in his native country, he eventually landed his international breakthrough in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls in 2000, as Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, the first time for a Spaniard. In 2002 he starred in John Malkovich's directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs.
Bardem won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in 2004's Mar Adentro, released in the United States as The Sea Inside, in which he portrayed the quadriplegic turned assisted-suicide activist Ramón Sampedro. That year he also made a brief appearance as a crime lord who summons Tom Cruise's hitman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses in Michael Mann's crime drama Collateral. 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 by Gabriel García Márquez. In No Country for Old Men, he played a sociopathic killer, Anton Chigurh. For that role, he became the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also 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 phrase, "Call it, friendo," was named Top HollyWORDIE of 2007 in the annual survey by the Global Language Monitor.[5] Chigurh was named #26 in Entertainment Weekly magazine's 2008 "50 Most Vile Villains in Movie History" list.[6]
He starred with Cruz and others in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Bardem was in talks to play fictional filmmaker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine; the part eventually went to Daniel Day-Lewis.[7]
[edit] Personal life
Bardem does not know how to drive and consistently refers to himself as a "worker" and not an actor.[8] Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005, Bardem incited controversy when he stated that if he were gay, he would "get married tomorrow, just to fuck with the Church" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia).[9] Bardem's life's work was honored at the 2007 Gotham Awards, produced by Independent Feature Project. Bardem began dating then co-star Penélope Cruz in 2007, although the couple has maintained a low public profile.[10]
[edit] Filmography
Year / Film / Role / Notes1990 / Las edades de Lulú / Jimmy
1991 / Tacones Lejanos / Regidor T.V.
1992 / Jamón, jamón / El chorizo / Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor
Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actor
Spanish Actors Union Newcomer Award
Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actor
1993 / Huevos de oro / Benito González / Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actor
El Amante Bilingüe / El limpiabotas
1994 / Running Out of Time (Días contados) / Lisardo / Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor
San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor
Award of the Spanish Actors Union for Supporting Film Performance
The Detective and Death / Detective Cornelio / El detective y la muerte
Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
1995 / Mouth to Mouth (Boca a boca) / Victor Ventura / Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor
Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Goya Award for Best Actor
Ondas Award for Best Actor
Premios ACE for Best Actor
1996 / Éxtasis / Rober / Nominated — Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Nominated — Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance
1997 / Carne trémula / David / Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actor
Perdita Durango / Romeo Dolorosa / Nominated — Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance
European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actor
1999 / Second Skin / Diego / Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Washington Wolves (Los Lobos de Washington) / Alberto / Ondas Award for Best Actor
2000 / Before Night Falls / Reinaldo Arenas / National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male
Premios ACE for Best Actor
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Volpi Cup
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
2002 / The Dancer Upstairs / Agustín Rejas / Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
Mondays in the Sun / Santa / ADIRCAE Award for Best Actor
Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor
Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Goya Award for Best Actor
Gramado Film Festival Golden Kikito Award - Latin Film Competititon - Best Actor
Premios ACE for Best Actor
Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance
Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actor
Nominated — European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actor
2004 / Collateral / Felix
The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) / Ramón Sampedro / Bangkok International Film Festival Golden Kinnaree Award for Best Actor
Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Actor
European Film Award for Best Actor
Fotogramas de Plata Award for Best Movie Actor
Goya Award for Best Actor
Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Actor
Spanish Actors Union Award for Lead Film Performance
Volpi Cup
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Premios ACE for Best Actor
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
2006 / Goya's Ghosts / Brother Lorenzo
2007 / Love in the Time of Cholera / Florentino Ariza
No Country for Old Men / Anton Chigurh / Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
2008 / Vicky Cristina Barcelona / Juan Antonio / Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
Nominated — Gaudí Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2010 / Biutiful / Uxbal / post-production
2011 / Eat, Pray, Love / Felipe / filming