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'''Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem''' (born [[March 1]], [[1969]]) is an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Spain|Spanish]] [[actor]]. He has made over two dozen films in his native country, but became an international star with his starring role in the critically acclaimed ''[[Before Night Falls (film)|Before Night Falls]]''. With this role, he became the first Spanish actor ever to receive an [[Academy Award]] nomination. Bardem won the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]], [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]], [[Screen Actors Guild Award|Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award]] and [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award]] for his performance as the [[antagonist]] Anton Chigurh in ''[[No Country for Old Men (film)|No Country for Old Men]]''. Javier Bardem is thought to be soon acting in a film by Matt Calabro and Oliver Richards, two up and coming directors, in a project which currently is shrouded in secrecy.
'''Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem''' (born [[March 1]], [[1969]]) is an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Spain|Spanish]] [[actor]]. He has made over two dozen films in his native country, but became an international star with his starring role in the critically acclaimed ''[[Before Night Falls (film)|Before Night Falls]]''. With this role, he became the first Spanish actor ever to receive an [[Academy Award]] nomination. Bardem won the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]], [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]], [[Screen Actors Guild Award|Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award]] and [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award]] for his performance as the [[antagonist]] Anton Chigurh in ''[[No Country for Old Men (film)|No Country for Old Men]]''.


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 03:18, 9 March 2008

Javier Bardem
File:JavierBardem.jpg
Javier Bardem at a film festival in Berlin, 2007
Born
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem
AwardsNBR Award for Best Supporting Actor
2000 Before Night Falls
NBR Award for Best Cast
2007 No Country For Old Men
NYFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor
2007 No Country For Old Men
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
2000 Before Night Falls
2004 Mar adentro

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Spanish actor. He has made over two dozen films in his native country, but became an international star with his starring role in the critically acclaimed Before Night Falls. With this role, he became the first Spanish actor ever to receive an Academy Award nomination. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for his performance as the antagonist Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.

Biography

Early life

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, the son of Carlos Encinas and the actress Pilar Bardem.[1] 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.[2] Both his older brother and his older sister, Carlos and Mónica Bardem, are actors. His film debut was at the age of six in the film El Pícaro (The Scoundrel) and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, athletics. Before acting professionally, Bardem was a member of the Spanish national rugby team.[3]

Career

Bardem starred in his first 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. After starring in roughly two dozen films in his native country, he would eventually land his international breakthrough performance role 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. This also marked Bardem's first English language speaking role. 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 assited-suicide activist Ramón Sampedro , who unsuccessfully brought his case to the Spanish courts, yet eventually succeeds in persuading several friends to assist him and commits suicide. That year he also made a brief appearance as a vicious crime lord who summons Tom Cruise's hitman to do the dirty work of dispatching witnesses, in Michael Mann's crime drama Collateral, which also starred Jamie Foxx. In 2007 Bardem acted in two film adaptations; the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, based upon the novel of the same name and the adaptation of the classic Colombian novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. In No Country for Old Men, he plays chilling sociopath hitman Anton Chigurh. For that role, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Supporting Actor and also won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He will star in Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Bardem is currently in talks to play fictional filmmaker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine. The part of Guido Contini had previously been played by Raul Julia in the original 1982 production and more recently by Antonio Banderas in the Tony Award-winning 2003 revival also starring Mary Stuart Masterson, Jane Krakowski, Chita Rivera, and Laura Benanti. The film is to be directed by Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award-winner Rob Marshall and is scheduled for release in 2008.

Personal life

Bardem does not know how to drive and consistently refers to himself as a "worker" and not an actor.[4] 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 piss the church off" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia)[5]. Bardem's life's work was recently honored at the 2007 Gotham Awards, produced byIFP (Independent Feature Project).

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Las edades de Lulú Jimmy
1991 Tacones Lejanos Regidor T.V.
1992 Jamón, jamón El chorizo
1993 Huevos de oro Benito González
El Amante Bilingüe El limpiabotas
1994 Running Out of Time (Días contados) Lisardo
The Detective and Death (El detective y la muerte) Detective Cornelio
1995 Mouth to Mouth (Boca a boca) Victor Ventura
1996 Éxtasis Rober
1997 Live Flesh David
Perdita Durango Romeo Dolorosa
1999 Second Skin Diego
Washington Wolves (Los Lobos de Washington) Alberto
2000 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 2000 Academy Award nominee for Best Actor in a Leading Role
2002 The Dancer Upstairs Agustín Rejas
Mondays in the Sun Santa
2004 Collateral Felix
The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) Ramón Sampedro
2006 Goya's Ghosts Brother Lorenzo
2007 Love in the Time of Cholera Florentino Ariza
No Country for Old Men Anton Chigurh 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona TBA
2009 Killing Pablo Pablo Escobar pre-production
Nine Guido Contini pre-production
Tetro TBA pre-production

Nominations and awards

Nominated

Won

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Preceded by Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2008
for No Country for Old Men 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
2007
for No Country for Old Men 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
2007
for No Country for Old Men 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
for No Country for Old Men
2008 		Succeeded by
TBD

References

  1. ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800023079/bio
  2. ^ Rodriguez, Rene (2000-12-17). "Javier Bardem Comes Across". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Pierce, Nev. "Interview with Javier Bardem". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-10-12. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ "OSCAR FILMS/ACTORS; 'Don't Call Me Actor,' says a Nominee for Best, Um . . ". The New York Times. 2001-03-04. Retrieved 2007-10-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=640998
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