Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem | |
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 Bardem at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011 | |
| Born | Javier Angel Encinas Bardem 1 March 1969 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Spouse | Penélope Cruz (2010–present) |
| Children | Leo (2011) |
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ baɾˈðen];[1][2] born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. He has garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, 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, five Goya awards, two European Film Awards, a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Coppa Volpis at Venice for his work. He is the first Spaniard to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls, lost to Russell Crowe for Gladiator), as well as the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar (Supporting Actor, 2007, for No Country for Old Men). He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, for the film Biutiful.
Early life
Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (Spain). His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, Carlos Encinas, was a businessman who was involved in environmental work; the two separated shortly after his birth.[3][4] His mother raised him alone.[5] 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.[6] Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors. Bardem was raised Roman Catholic by his grandmother.[7][8] He also comes from a very political background, his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films.[5]
As a child he hung around theatres and film sets.[5] At age six he made his first film appearance in Fernando Fernán Gómez's El Pícaro (The Scoundrel).[5][9] He played rugby for the underage Spanish National Team.[10][11] Though he grew up in a family full of actors, Bardem didn't see himself going into the family business. In actuality painting was his first love.[12] He went on to study painting for four years at Madrid’s 'Escuela de Artes y Oficios'.[10][13] In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting. But, he has expressed to have been a bad painter, "otherwise I would've keep on painting. It's not it was bad or good. It was like, I felt it was not my place to be," Bardem explained on his decision to leave painting.[12] In 1989, for the Spanish comedy show El Dia Por Delante (The Day Ahead) he had to wear a Superman costume for a comedic sketch, the job made him question whether he wanted to be an actor at all.[14] Bardem has confessed to have worked as a stripper (for one day only) during his struggling acting career.[15]
Career
Bardem starred in his first major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu, when he was 20. He was propelled to fame in 1992 by his role as a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter in Jamón, jamón, which also starred a teenage Penélope Cruz.[10] Bardem's talent did not go unnoticed in the English-speaking world. In 1997, John Malkovich was the first to approach the then 27-year-old for a role in English, but Bardem turned down the offer because his English was poor.[11][16] His first English-speaking role came in 1997, in with director Alex de la Iglesia's Perdita Durango, playing a santeria-practicing bank robber. After starring in about two dozen films in his native country, he gained international recognition in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls in 2000, portraying Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas.[10] He received praises from (his idol) Al Pacino, the message was left on Bardem's answering machine which he considers one of the most beautiful gifts he's ever received.[5] For the role he got nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, a first time for a Spaniard. Immediately after, he turned down the role of "Witwer" in Minority Report which eventually went to Colin Farrell.[17] In 2002 instead he starred in John Malkovich's directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs. Malkovich (who first approached Bardem in 1997) originally had him in mind for the role of the detective's assistant, but since the movie took so long to get financed it gave Bardem time to learn English and take on the lead role of the detective. "I will always be grateful to him because he really gave me my very first chance to work in English," Bardem said of Malkovich.[11][16]
Bardem won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in Mar Adentro (2004), released in the United States as The Sea Inside, in which he portrayed the quadriplegic turned assisted suicide activist Ramón Sampedro. He made his Hollywood debut in a brief appearance as a crime lord who summons Tom Cruise's hitman 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 twisted monk during the Spanish Inquisition.[18] 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 assassin, Anton Chigurh. For that role, he became the first Spanish actor and Spaniard to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[19] 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.[20] Chigurh was named #26 in Entertainment Weekly magazine's 2008 "50 Most Vile Villains in Movie History" list.[21] 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 heir to, and even an improvement on, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson and Robert de Niro referring to Bardem as ambitious and hungry, unwilling to rest on his laurels and always "excited to do something good".[5] Bardem was attached to play the role of Tetro's mentor in Coppola's film Tetro, but the director felt the character should be female so he was replaced by fellow Spaniard Carmen Maura.[22][23] Bardem was originally cast to play fictional filmmaker Guido Contini in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine, but dropped out due to exhaustion.[22][24] The part eventually went to Daniel Day-Lewis.[25] He went on to star alongside Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). 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 mind.[12] After being overlooked by the Globes and SAG, Bardem was the unexpected Oscar nominee on 25 January 2011, becoming the first all Spanish-language Best Actor nominee ever.[26][27] Around this same 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 signs, he will star in the TV series as well. In January 2011, EON Productions offered him a role in the James Bond film, tentatively titled Bond 23.[28] In July 2011, it was confirmed that he had been cast in the film as the villain.[29] He won his 5th Goya Award, this time for Best Actor in Buitiful, dedicating the win to his wife, Penelope Cruz, and newborn son.[30][31] The February issue of British GQ chose Bardem as its 2011 top best-dressed man internationally.[32]
Bardem is scheduled to appear in a 2011 episode of the American TV musical sitcom Glee.[33] Bardem appears in the untitled sixth feature by Terrence Malick, shot in fall 2010 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.[34]
Personal life
He credits the group AC/DC for his fluency in English as well as learning how to curse and has stated he loves heavy metal music.[12] Bardem has admitted in interviews he cannot drive, only getting behind the wheel for film roles,[10][35] and he consistently refers to himself as a "worker" and not an actor.[36] 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).[37] In May 2011 Bardem teamed up with The Enough Project's co-founder John Prendergast to raise awareness about conflict minerals in eastern Congo.[38]
Bardem was divorced before he began dating then co-star Penélope Cruz in 2007, although the couple have maintained a low public profile.[39] The two are famously private and won't talk about their personal lives.[12] According to the Associated Press, the two were married in July 2010 in the Bahamas.[40] On 14 September 2010, it was announced that Cruz was four and a half months pregnant with their first child.[41] The Hollywood Reporter quoted the Spanish-language ¡Hola! that Cruz gave birth to a boy on 22 January 2011, three days before Bardem received his third Oscar nomination, for his role in Biutiful.[42] The couple's son is reportedly named Leo Encinas Bardem.[43]
Filmography
See also
References
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"I was raised Catholic by my grandmother," says Bardem.
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- ^ a b c d e Schroot, Hannah (22 February 2011). "Javier Bardem: 10 things you need to know about the Oscar-nominated actor". Mirror. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
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- ^ Miller, Oliver (23 December 2010). "Javier Bardem's Most Embarrassing Job -- Playing Superman on a 1980s TV Show (VIDEO)". TV Squad. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
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- ^ a b Murray, Rebecca. "Javier Bardem on John Malkovich and "The Dancer Upstairs"". About.com. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
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- ^ O'Hara, Helen. "Javier Bardem". Empire (magazine). Retrieved 17 April 2011.
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- ^ ""Tú decides, amigo" · ELPAÍS.com". Elpais.com. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
- ^ 50 Most Vile Movie Villains Part 2, Entertainment Weekly. Accessed 26 May 2008.
- ^ a b Frosty (14 August 2008). "Javier Bardem Interview - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Page 2)". Collider. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
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- ^ "Oscar nominations: Javier Bardem expresses his gratitude". Los Angeles Times. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
- ^ Karger, Dave (25 January 2011). "Oscar nominations: The 5 biggest surprises". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
- ^ "Javier Bardem Offered Big Bond #23 Role; MGM Leveraging 007 Distribution With Co-Financing Deal To Improve Its Cash Flow: Jockeying Studios "Increasingly Frustrated"". Deadline.com. 30 January 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
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- ^ "Javier Bardem: Peace for Congo's Mothers". Enough Project. 2011-05-05. Retrieved 201-05-04.
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- ^ "Penelope Cruz is pregnant with her first child | Latest celebrity news". Hellomagazine.com. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ Rolfe, Pamela (26 January 2011). "Report: Penelope Cruz, Javier Barden Welcome First Child". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 January 2011.. WebCitation archive.
- ^ Rolfe, Pamela (8 February 2011). "Name of Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz's Son Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
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