
Javier Bardem
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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Most Rating | 0.83 |
Birthday | 1969-03-01 |
Place of Birth | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain |
Also Known As | Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem, خافيير باردم, 하비에르 바르뎀, 哈維爾·巴登, ハビエル・バルデム, คาเบียร์ บาร์เดน, خاویر باردم, ხავიერ ბარდემი, Хавʼєр Бардем, |

1997

Live Flesh
7.1/680
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his...
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2004

The Sea Inside
7.6/935
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to...
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2001

Don't Tempt Me
5.524/82
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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1992

Jamon Jamon
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José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the un...
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2000

Before Night Falls
6.6/274
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vili...
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2008

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6.794/3764
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2002

The Dancer Upstairs
6.2/60
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
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2006

Goya's Ghosts
6.6/489
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to h...
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2007

Love in the Time of Cholera
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on t...
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2007

No Country for Old Men
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Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it,...
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1991

High Heels
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2019

Sanctuary
7.2/5
Sanctuary tells the story of a campaign by Greenpeace, for whom the Bardems currently act as Antarctic ambassadors, to preserve the Southern Ocean. Kn...
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1997

Dance with the Devil
6.6/199
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1994

The Tit & the Moon
6.2/79
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2017

mother! The Downward Spiral
8.6/9
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2021

Being James Bond
7.7/88
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2013

To the Wonder
5.8/495
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2012

Skyfall
7.247/15346
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...
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2010

Eat Pray Love
6.242/2460
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she f...
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1995

Mouth to Mouth
5.3/26
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2010

Biutiful
7.248/1115
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and fa...
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1993

Golden Balls
5.4/86
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
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Golden Balls

2008

Diary of a Country Sheriff
8/2
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2022

Cruce de caminos
3.5/2
An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.
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2023

Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages
5.2/4
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1993

The Bilingual Lover
4/21
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1999

Between Your Legs
5.3/52
A radio-show assistant meets a budding screenwriter during a group-therapy session for sex addicts.
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2002

Mondays in the Sun
7.2/219
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1990

The Ages of Lulu
6.4/274
Fifteen-year-old Lulu has never known any affection from her family. But when she goes to a rock concert with Pablo, a friend of the family, he introd...
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2012

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
7.542/72
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1994

The Detective and Death
3.6/7
In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot deceive or corrupt: death. Meanwhile, a detective t...
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1992

Amo tu cama rica
6/7
Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He...
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1999

Washington Wolves
4.4/8
Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is di...
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2008

Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze
0/0
An exploration of the world and the work of the most international Catalan filmmaker through the director's entomological vision and his portrayal of...
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2017

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
7.286/14
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2013

The Counselor
5.275/1870
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
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2012

Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony
6.5/6
The political upheaval in North Africa is responsibility of the Western powers —especially of the United States and France— due to the exercise of a f...
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2025

F1
0/0
Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more cha...
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1994

Running Out of Time
6/33
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1996

Extasis
6/17
Rober, Max and Ona, three young people living on the fringes of society, decide to commit a risky robbery.
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2013

Scorpion in Love
6.5/29
Julian (Álex González) and his friend Luis (Miguel Angel Silvestre) are two neighborhood boys who are part of a gang of violent neo-Nazis, led by Soli...
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1999

Second Skin
5.8/35
When Elena finds a hotel bill in her husband’s pocket, she begins to suspect that he’s having an affair — but not that it’s with a man.
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2024

Spellbound
6.7/236
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Sherman and Pacifico
0/0
The humble fable of an immortal jellyfish and a curious shut-in, and the lessons they learn from one another.
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2015

The Gunman
5.7/962
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering f...
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1995

La madre
5/6
Winner of a Goya Award for best shortfilm
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1997

Airbag
6.5/96
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2022

Look at Me
4.5/2
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2014

Automata
5.849/1664
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2017

The Last Face
5.5/197
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2024

Walking Fernando
0/0
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2017

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
6.653/12134
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2023

The Eternal Memory
8/75
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1997

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
6.2/50
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
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2006

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
8/1
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their w...
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2018

Everybody Knows
6.531/985
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2017

mother!
6.965/6739
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
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1981

El poderoso influjo de la luna
4/2
The film is an image of the Spanish society in form of various anecdotes which happen to the inhabitants and their neighbours of a finca in Madrid.
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1996

Not Love, Just Frenzy
5.8/19
A group of enthusiastic teenagers embark on a journey to find love in Madrid's hottest discotheques but find themselves tangled in a web of sex, drugs...
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2004

Collateral
7.227/5721
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
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2017

Loving Pablo
6.286/1000
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous jour...
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2014

Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
5/6
A 13-segment documentary examining production aspects of "The Counselor."
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2018

Thy Kingdom Come
6.3/3
A priest struggling with his beliefs encounters and sympathetically listens to the stories of downtrodden locals.
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1993

Huidos
2/1
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2009

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
6.6/9
Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from? What is the story of his life?
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2018

Querido Fotogramas
4/2
The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic...
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Querido Fotogramas

2020

The Roads Not Taken
5.5/81
The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but str...
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The Roads Not Taken

2008

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
6.714/7
A piece featuring additional cast and crew interview snippets and behind-the-scenes footage. We find comments from Joel and Ethan Coen, Jones, Bardem,...
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2021

Dune
7.782/13289
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the un...
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2010

14 Actors Acting
7/6
This year's great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.
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1998

Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
6.4/268
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
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2023

The Little Mermaid
6.3/3013
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the sur...
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2021

Being the Ricardos
6.515/642
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
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2024

Dune: Part Two
8.149/6409
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed hi...
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2013

L'Agent
1/1
A man walks through a house filled with beautiful women.
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L'Agent

2021

The Good Boss
7/419
Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the immin...
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The Good Boss

2022

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
6.965/593
When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he d...
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The Beloved
0/0
An acclaimed film director and his daughter, an unsuccessful actress, shoot a film together after years of estrangement and a difficult past that none...
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2005

El oficio de actor
0/0
Three of Spain's most renowned actors discuss the acting profession and share experiences and feelings from their different shootings. The ego, the ch...
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A Journey to Sundance
0/0
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2008

The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
0/0
A look behind the scenes of No Country for Old Men (2007), including interviews with cast and crew.
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