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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From Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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Primarily2025 F1 as Ruben Cervantes
2025 The Making of 'Dune: Part Two'
2025 Bunker
2025 The Beloved
2025 Sherman and Pacifico as Pacifico
2024 Spellbound as King Solon (voice)
2024 Walking Fernando as Fernando
2024 Dune: Part Two as Stilgar
2023 The Eternal Memory as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023 The Little Mermaid as King Triton
2023 Javier Bardem, l'acteur aux mille visages as Self (archive)
2022 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile as Hector P. Valenti
2022 Look at Me as Leo
2022 Cruce de caminos as Self
2021 Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz
2021 The Good Boss as Julio Blanco
2021 Dune as Stilgar
2021 Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
2021 A Journey to Sundance as Self
2020 The Roads Not Taken as Leo
2019 Sanctuary as Javier Bardem Producer
2018 Querido Fotogramas as Self
2018 Everybody Knows as Paco
2018 Thy Kingdom Come as Father Quintana Producer
2017 mother! The Downward Spiral as Self
2017 Loving Pablo as Pablo Escobar Producer
2017 mother! as Him
2017 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Armando Salazar
2017 Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
2017 Bigas x Bigas Executive Producer
2017 The Last Face as Dr. Miguel Leon
2015 The Gunman as Felix Marti
2014 Automata as Blue Robot (voice)
2014 Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' as Self
2013 The Counselor as Reiner
2013 Scorpion in Love as Solis
2013 To the Wonder as Father Quintana
2013 L'Agent as Construction Worker
2012 Skyfall as Silva
2012 Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony as Self - Narrator Producer
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2010 14 Actors Acting as Self
2010 Biutiful as Uxbal
2010 Eat Pray Love as Felipe
2009 Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… as Self
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
2008 Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze as El chorizo (archive footage)
2008 Diary of a Country Sheriff as Self
2008 No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
2008 The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' as Self
2007 No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
2007 Love in the Time of Cholera as Florentino Ariza
2006 Goya's Ghosts as Lorenzo Casamares
2006 Hécuba: un sueño de pasión as Self
2005 El oficio de actor as Itself
2004 The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro
2004 Collateral as Felix Reyes-Torrena
2002 Mondays in the Sun as Santa
2002 The Dancer Upstairs as Agustín Rejas
2001 Don't Tempt Me as Tony Graco
2000 Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
1999 Second Skin as Diego
1999 Washington Wolves as Alberto
1999 Between Your Legs as Javier
1998 Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law as Sultán (uncredited)
1997 Dance with the Devil as Romeo Dolorosa
1997 Live Flesh as David de Paz
1997 Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health as Stretcher Bearer
1997 Airbag as José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'
1996 Extasis as Rober
1995 Mouth to Mouth as Víctor Ventura
1995 La madre as Hijo
1994 Running Out of Time as Lisardo
1994 The Detective and Death as Det. Cornelio
1994 The Tit & the Moon as Benito González
1993 Golden Balls as Benito González
1993 Huidos
1993 The Bilingual Lover as Limpiabotas
1992 Jamon Jamon as Raúl
1992 Amo tu cama rica as Antonio
1991 High Heels as Regidor T.V.
1990 The Ages of Lulu as Jimmy
1981 El poderoso influjo de la luna as Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)