Javier Bardem (Javier Bardem): filmography, biography and the family of the Spanish actor

The hero of our today's story will be Javier Bardem, who with confidence can be called one of the most successful actors of Spanish descent, made a dizzying career in Hollywood. He is a laureate of many prestigious film awards, among them "Oscar" and "Golden Globe". On the creative path of the famous Spaniard, as well as his personal life and will go further speech.

Javier Bardem: Biography

The future star of Hollywood and the conqueror of thousands of women's hearts was born on March 1, 1969 in the town of Las Palmas, located on one of the Canary Islands in Spain. With a great deal of confidence, we can say that Javier was destined to become an actor. This conclusion suggests itself in connection with the fact that almost all of his family came into contact with the cinema. So, his grandfather and grandmother, Rafael Bardem and Matilla Munoz Sampedro, as well as Mom Pilar, were very successful actors in their homeland. In their footsteps brother and sister of Javier Carlos and Monica went. The uncle of the future Hollywood celebrity, whose name was Juan Antonio Bardem, is also connected with the world of cinema: he was a very famous director and stood out for his communist views and love for Cuba and Russia. Only Javier's father, who had Cuban roots, was a businessman: he worked in the environmental sphere.

When the boy was two years old, his parents divorced, and he moved with his mother, brother and sister to live in Madrid. At the age of six, Javier first starred in the film, which was dubbed "The Dodger". After that, while studying at school, the boy took part in several more films, but they did not get much fame.

Youth

Javier Bardem (the filmography of the actor in the future will be replenished with successful film works that will bring him the "Oscar" and other prestigious awards) grew very versatile boy. He devoted a lot of time to sports: he was a member of the national rugby team and was involved in weightlifting. He also went to study in an art and industrial school, where he seriously studied painting. In addition, Javier realized himself in the actor's role, touring throughout the country as a member of an independent theater group.

Javier Bardem: filmography, the beginning of film career

His first really big role was a young actor in the movie "Ages Lila," directed by Bigas Moon in 1990. By the way, the mother of Javier took part in the work on this picture. The director really liked the game of 20-year-old Bardem, and he offered him a role in his next project - a black comedy titled "Love, Sex and Ham." Javier's work in this film appealed to both spectators and critics, and brought him popularity and several movie awards at once. The roles in subsequent films, such as "Between the Feet", "Golden Eggs", "Mouth to Mouth", "Ecstasy", represented the actor in the form of such a brutal and rude Spanish macho. However, Javier Bardem, whose photo in the half-naked form of a crowd of fans kept as the apple of his eye, avoided the temptation to forever remain a sex symbol. He continued to work on improving his skills, looking for an opportunity to realize himself in a new serious role.

Continuation of career

In 1994, Bardem starred in the role of Basque terrorist in the film entitled "Read Days" directed by Imanola Uribe. For this work, he was awarded the first prize "Goya" as the best supporting actor. A couple of years he starred in the lead role in the film "Face to Face," where his hero was an unemployed actor, who was involved in a clever plot. This work brought Bardem the second "Goyu", but already for the performance of the main role.

We can say that the awards literally fell on Javier, which can not but speak of his bright talent. So, in 1997 he again won the "Goya" award, this time for his role in the film "Living flesh" directed by Perdro Almodovar. And only a year later at the Berlin festival Bardem was recognized as the best European actor for his work in the film "Perdita Durango".

However, Javier has not yet succeeded in getting rid of the image of the charming and sexy seducer that made him the star of first magnitude in Spain so successfully created by him. Bardem increasingly burdened with this role. A truly radical step actor on the way to changing the image was the role in the 1998 film called "Second Skin". In the picture, Javier played a homosexual who took away from the family a respectable heterosexual.

2000s

At the dawn of the new millennium, Bardem played, perhaps, a key part in his career in the film "Until Night Will Come" directed by Julian Schnabel. And the hero of Javier was Reinaldo Arenas, a Cuban dissident and poet who had unconventional sexual orientation and died of AIDS at the age of 47. For this role, Bardem was awarded the most prestigious awards: the Volpi Cup of the International Film Festival in Venice and the Golden Globe. Also, the actor was nominated for the prestigious Oscar.

Javier Bardem, whose filmography was relentlessly replenished with new great works, in 2002 brilliantly played in the film "The Dancer on the top of the stairs", which became the debut director's work of John Malkovich. Then followed the participation in the film "Mondays in the sun".

Another truly successful role was his work in the film "The Sea Inside," in which he played a paralyzed man fighting for his right to euthanasia. Both the film and Bardem's acting have earned many prizes, awards and nominations.

Last works

In 2006, Javier performed another very significant role - the priest Lorenzo in the film Ghosts of Goya. Then came the brilliant work of the actor in the crime drama "The Old Men Are Not Here" by director Itan Cohen, released in 2007. For this role, Bardem was awarded two prestigious awards - "Oscar" and "Golden Globe."

In 2010, the actor was busy immediately in two scenes: "Beauty" and "Eat, Pray, Love" (in the latter he played along with the brilliant Julia Roberts). The first of them brought the actor a prize of the Cannes Film Festival. It should be noted that all the films with Javier Bardem left a significant mark in the history of cinema, and therefore almost invariably accompanied by any awards and awards.

In the next few years, Javier delighted the audience with superb roles in such films as "007: Coordinates" Skyfoll "," To the Miracle "," Scorpion in Love "," Counselor ". In 2014, a new film with Bardem in the title role called "Shooter" is expected to appear on the big screens.

Personal life

In 2010, Javier Bardem married the Hollywood star Penelope Cruz, which, by the way, is Spanish, that is, his compatriot. Actors were familiar with each other for a long time, remaining, however, just good friends. Romantic feelings between celebrities arose during the joint work on the film "Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona." Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz were married in a romantic setting in the Bahamas. Actors are happy in marriage and bring up two children: the son of Leonardo Encinas (2011) and daughter Luna Encinas (2013).

Interesting Facts

On the success of the actor can be judged by the fact that the 40 roles he has played so far have 69 awards and prizes!

Javier Bardem is the second after the celebrated Antonio Banderas the Spaniard, who made a dizzying career in Hollywood.

About 20 years ago the actor was attacked by hooligans and beat him. Since then, Javier decided to seriously engage in boxing, in case of need to rebuff the ill-wishers.