José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor and singer. Known for his work in films of several genres, he has received various accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award and a European Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. Banderas made his film debut in Pedro Almodóvar's screwball comedy Labyrinth of Passion (1982). They've since collaborated together on many films including Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), and The Skin I Live In (2011). For the 2019 film Pain and Glory, Banderas earned various accolades for Best Actor including the Cannes Film Festival Award, Goya Award, and as well as nominations from the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He's also known for several Hollywood films, such as Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Desperado (1995), Assassins (1995), Evita (1996), and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He also appeared in the first three films of the Spy Kids series (2001-2003) and provided the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise (2004–present) and its spin-off films Puss in Boots (2011) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022). In 2003, Banderas made his US theatre debut as Guido Contini in Nine, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award. He received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles in the television film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) and the second season of Genius (2018); his portrayal of Pablo Picasso in the latter garnered him critical praise.

Filmography

• 2027Up Against It — Álvaro
• 2026Above & Below — Burns
• 2026Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente
• 2026Tony — Chef
• 2024Babygirl — Jacob
• 2024Cult Killer — Mikeal Tallini
• 2024Hermanos, una historia de sangre — Narrator
• 2024Paddington in Peru — Hunter Cabot
• 2024The Clean Up Crew — Gabriel
• 100% únicos
• 2023Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — Renaldo
• 2023Journey to Bethlehem — Herod the Great
• 2022Code Name Banshee — Caleb
• 2022Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2022The Enforcer — Cuda
• 2022Uncharted — Santiago Moncada
• 2021Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard — Aristotle Papdopolous
• 2021Official Competition — Félix Rivero, Executive Producer
• 2020Dolittle — King Rassouli
• 2019Pain and Glory — Salvador Mallo
• 2019The Laundromat — Ramón Fonseca
• 2018Beyond the Edge — Gordon
• 2018Life Itself — Vincent Saccione
• 2017Acts of Vengeance — Frank Valera
• 2017Black Butterfly — Paul
• 2017Bullet Head — Blue
• Genius — Pablo Picasso
• 2017Gun Shy — Turk Henry
• 2017Security — Eduardo 'Eddie' Deacon
• 2017SpongeBob SquarePants: Sea Side Story — Burger Beard
• 2017The Music of Silence — Le maestro
• 2016Finding Altamira — Marcelino
• 2016The Great Illusion — Self, Thanks
• 2015Knight of Cups — Tonio
• 2015The 33 — Mario Sepúlveda
• 2015The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water — Burger Beard
• 2014Automata — Jacq Vaucan, Producer
• 2014The Expendables 3 — Galgo
• 2013I'm So Excited! — León
• 2013Justin and the Knights of Valour — Sir Clorex (voice), Producer
• 2013Machete Kills — El Camaleón 4
• 2013Mundos virtuales
• 2013Shrek Stories — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2012Dreamworks Spooky Stories — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2012Dreamworks: Holiday Classics — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2012Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2012Ruby Sparks — Mort
• 2011Black Gold — Emir Nesib
• 2011Haywire — Rodrigo
• 2011Puss in Boots — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2011Spy Kids: All the Time in the World — Gregorio Cortez (uncredited)
• 2011The Big Bang — Ned Cruz
• 2011The Skin I Live In — Dr. Robert Ledgard
• 2010Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2010Scared Shrekless — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2010Shrek Forever After — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2010Shrek's Yule Log — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Greg
• 2009The Lady and the Reaper — Producer
• 2009Thick as Thieves — Gabriel Martin
• 2008Before the Fall — Producer
• 2008Chevolution
• DreamWorks Shrek's Swamp Stories — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2008My Mom's New Boyfriend — Tommy Martinez
• 2008The Missing Lynx — Producer
• 2008The Other Man — Ralph
• 2008Y el cine marcha
• 2007Bordertown — Alfonso Diaz
• 2007Shrek the Halls — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2007Shrek the Third — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2006Summer Rain — Director, Producer
• 2006Take the Lead — Pierre Dulaine
• Dreamworks 5 Holiday Classics Collection — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2005Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones — Miguel (archive footage)
• 2005The Legend of Zorro — Don Alejandro de la Vega / Zorro
• 2004Far Far Away Idol — Puss In Boots (voice)
• 2004Shrek 2 — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2003And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself — Pancho Villa
• DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection — Puss in Boots (voice)
• 2003Imagining Argentina — Carlos Rueda
• 2003Once Upon a Time in Mexico — El Mariachi
• 2003Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over — Gregorio Cortez
• 2002Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever — Agent Jeremiah Ecks
• 2002Femme Fatale — Nicolas Bardo
• 2002Frida — David Alfaro Siqueiros
• 2002Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams — Gregorio Cortez
• 2001Original Sin — Luis Antonio Vargas
• 2001Spy Kids — Gregorio Cortez
• 2001The Body — Father Matt Gutierrez
• 1999Crazy in Alabama — Director
• 1999Play It to the Bone — Cesar Dominguez
• 1999The 13th Warrior — Ahmed Ibh Fahdlan
• 1999The White River Kid — Morales Pittman, Producer
• 1998The Mask of Zorro — Alejandro Murrieta / Zorro
• 1996Evita — Ché
• 1995Assassins — Miguel Bain
• 1995Desperado — El Mariachi, Special Guest Director
• 1995Four Rooms — Man
• 1995Miami Rhapsody — Antonio
• 1995Never Talk to Strangers — Tony Ramirez
• 1995Two Much — Art Dodge
• Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini — Benito Mussolini
• 1994Interview with the Vampire — Armand
• 1994Of Love and Shadows — Francisco
• Cuentos de Borges — Rosendo Juárez
• 1993La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez
• 1993Outrage — Marcos Vallez
• 1993Philadelphia — Miguel Alvarez
• 1993The House of the Spirits — Pedro Tercero Gareia
• HBO First Look
• 1992The Mambo Kings — Nestor Castillo
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1992Una mujer bajo la lluvia — Miguel
• 1991Terra Nova — Antonio
• 1990Against the Wind — Juan
• La mujer de tu vida — Antonio López
• 1990La mujer feliz
• 1990Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! — Ricky
• 1989El acto — Carlos
• 1989Going Down in Morocco — Alberto
• 1989If They Tell You I Fell — Marcos
• 1989The White Dove — Mario
• 1988Baton Rouge — Antonio
• 1988El placer de matar — Luis
• 1988Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown — Carlos
• 1987Law of Desire — Antonio Benítez
• 1987The Way They Were — Damián
• 198627 Hours — Rafa
• 1986Love Ravings — Amante de Jaime (segment "Delirio 3")
• 1986Matador — Angel
• 1986Puzzle — Andrés
• 1985Caso cerrado — Gasofa
• 1985Réquiem por un campesino español — Paco
• 1985The Court of the Pharaoh — Friar José / José Later
• 1984El caso Almería — Juan Luque
• 1984El señor Galíndez — Eduardo
• 1984The Stilts — Alberto
• 1983Y del seguro… líbranos, Señor! — Pipi
• 1982Labyrinth of Passion — Sadec
• 1982Pestañas postizas — Juan
• Armadillo United — Diego
• San Pellegrino - Fili tirati nunca
• The Monster of Florence — Mario Spezi
• Unmerciful Good Fortune — Pito Cruz
• Untitled Puss in Boots Sequel — Puss in Boots (voice)

Appearances as themselves (68)

• 2025Gypsy en el Soho. El sueño de Antonio Banderas — Self
• Pedro x Javis — Self
• 2023El viaje de Julieta — Self
• 2023Informe Plus+. Proyecto Euro Malaga — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — Self
• 2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self
• Martínez y hermanos — Self - Guest
• B.S.O. con Emilio Aragón — Self - Invitado
• La Noche D — Self - Guest
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2020One Night Only: The Best of Broadway — Self - Performer
• 2020The Making of Pain and Glory — Self
• Mi casa es la tuya — Self - Guest
• Ramez is Playing With Fire — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
• 2014The Making of The Expendables 3 — Self
• 2014Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2012The Making of The Skin I Live In — Self
• 2011In Search Of the Dead Eaters — Self
• 2011Shrek: Once Upon a Time — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• Conan — Self
• The Talk — Self - Guest
• 2007Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood — Self
• Sabias a lo que venías — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• El hormiguero — Self - Guest
• 2006Hécuba: un sueño de pasión — Self
• 2005Champion — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• The Reichen Show — Self - Guest
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2004People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia' — Self
• 2003Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• American Idol — Self
• 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self (uncredited)
• Good Day Live — Self
• 2001Unmasking Zorro — Self
• 2000In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire — Self
• Latin Grammy Awards — Self
• 2000The Many Faces of Zorro — Self
• 1998Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration — Self - Performer
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• 1998Junket Whore — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• The View — Self
• 1996A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' — Self
• Clive Anderson All Talk — Self
• Lo + plus — Self - Guest
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 1991Madonna: Truth or Dare — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self, Self - Guest
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• Film '72 — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Performer
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• The Making of Shrek 2 — Self