Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 1, 1969
Place of Birth
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Also Known As
- Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem
Javier Bardem
4.6 Popularity
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.8
Ruben Cervantes
F1
2025
6.6
King Solon (voice)
Spellbound
2024
7.6
José Menendez
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
2024
8.2
Self
Conan O'Brien Must Go
2024
7.0
Fernando
Walking Fernando
2024
8.1
Stilgar
Dune: Part Two
2024
6.3
King Triton
The Little Mermaid
2023
0.0
Self
A Journey to Sundance
2023
7.0
Hector P. Valenti
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
2022
4.5
Leo
Look at Me
2022
Credits
F1
as Ruben Cervantes
2025
7.8
Spellbound
as King Solon (voice)
2024
6.6
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
as José Menendez
2024
7.6
Conan O'Brien Must Go
as Self
2024
8.2
Walking Fernando
as Fernando
2024
7.0
Dune: Part Two
as Stilgar
2024
8.1
The Little Mermaid
as King Triton
2023
6.3
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
2023
0.0
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
as Hector P. Valenti
2022
7.0
Look at Me
as Leo
2022
4.5
Cruce de caminos
as Self
2022
3.5
Being the Ricardos
as Desi Arnaz
2021
6.5
The Good Boss
as Julio Blanco
2021
7.0
Dune
as Stilgar
2021
7.8
La Noche D
as Self - Guest
2021
3.3
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Inigo Montoya
2020
7.5
The Roads Not Taken
as Leo
2020
5.5
Sanctuary
as Javier Bardem
2019
7.2
Querido Fotogramas
as Self
2018
4.0
Everybody Knows
as Paco
2018
6.5
Thy Kingdom Come
as Father Quintana
2018
6.3
mother! The Downward Spiral
as Self
2017
8.6
Loving Pablo
as Pablo Escobar
2017
6.3
mother!
as Him
2017
7.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
as Armando Salazar
2017
6.7
The Last Face
as Dr. Miguel Leon
2017
5.6
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Gunman
as Felix Marti
2015
5.8
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Automata
as Blue Robot (voice)
2014
5.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
🎬
Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
as Self
2014
5.7
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
The Counselor
as Reiner
2013
5.3
Scorpion in Love
as Solis
2013
6.2
To the Wonder
as Father Quintana
2013
5.8
L'Agent
as Construction Worker
2013
1.8
Skyfall
as Silva
2012
7.3
Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony
as Self - Narrator
2012
6.5
Buenas noches y Buenafuente
as Self - Guest
2012
6.0
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Biutiful
as Uxbal
2010
7.2
Eat Pray Love
as Felipe
2010
6.2
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self
2009
6.6
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
2008
6.8
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
as Self
2008
6.9
🎬
The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
as Self
2008
0.0
No Country for Old Men
as Anton Chigurh
2007
7.9
Love in the Time of Cholera
as Florentino Ariza
2007
6.6
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood
as Self
2007
0.0
Goya's Ghosts
as Lorenzo Casamares
2006
6.6
🎬
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
as Self
2006
8.0
El hormiguero
as Self - Guest
2006
4.8
El oficio de actor
as Self
2005
0.0
The Sea Inside
as Ramón Sampedro
2004
7.6
Collateral
as Felix Reyes-Torrena
2004
7.2
Mondays in the Sun
as Santa
2002
7.2
The Dancer Upstairs
as Agustín Rejas
2002
6.1
Live from E!
as Self
2002
3.7
Don't Tempt Me
as Tony Graco
2001
5.5
Before Night Falls
as Reinaldo Arenas
2000
6.6
Second Skin
as Diego
1999
5.7
Washington Wolves
as Alberto
1999
4.1
Between Your Legs
as Javier
1999
5.3
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
as Sultán (uncredited)
1998
6.5
Dance with the Devil
as Romeo
1997
6.5
Live Flesh
as David de Paz
1997
7.0
Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health
as Stretcher Bearer
1997
6.1
Airbag
as José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'
1997
6.5
Not Love, Just Frenzy
1996
5.7
Extasis
as Rober
1996
5.6
Mouth to Mouth
as Víctor Ventura
1995
5.2
La madre
as Hijo
1995
5.0
Lo + plus
as Self - Guest
1995
0.0
Running Out of Time
as Lisardo
1994
5.9
The Detective and Death
as Det. Cornelio
1994
3.4
The Tit and the Moon
as Benito González
1994
6.2
Golden Balls
as Benito González
1993
5.4
Huidos
1993
2.0
The Bilingual Lover
as Limpiabotas
1993
3.9
Jamon Jamon
as el chorizo
1992
6.2
Crónicas del mal
1992
0.0
Amo tu cama rica
as Antonio
1992
6.0
High Heels
as Regidor T.V.
1991
7.1
The Ages of Lulu
as Jimmy
1990
6.4
Segunda Enseñanza
1986
2.7
Jeopardy!
as Self - Clue Presenter
1984
6.9
El poderoso influjo de la luna
as Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)
1981
4.0
El pícaro
as Alonso de niño
1974
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
🎬
Cape Fear
as Max Cady
N/A
0.0
Sherman and Pacifico
as Pacifico
N/A
0.0
🎬
Bunker
N/A
0.0
The Beloved
N/A
0.0