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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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2025 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 Not Love, Just Frenzy

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)

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7.25 Science Fiction 3

7.14 Adventure 6

6.97 Horror 1

6.77 Action 6

6.70 Animation 1

6.67 Family 3

6.58 Documentary 15

6.55 History 2

6.53 Crime 10

6.53 Mystery 1

6.43 Fantasy 4

6.28 Romance 15

6.21 Thriller 16

6.03 Drama 40

5.80 Comedy 19

5.20 TV Movie 1

5.00 Music 3