Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career spanning over three decades, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Goya Awards, in addition to a Cannes Film Festival Award and two Volpi Cups. Bardem is the 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' crime 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 Eat Pray Love (2010), 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), Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023), and the sports action film F1 (2025). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024), for which he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series (as an executive producer). Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010 and together they have two children. In January 2018, Bardem became the ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Bunker — Miguel
• Cape Fear — Maximiliano 'Max' Cady, Executive Producer
• 2026Dune: Part Three — Stilgar
• 2026The Beloved — Esteban Martínez, Executive Producer
• 2025All That's Left of You — Executive Producer
• 2025F1 — Ruben Cervantes
• 2024Dune: Part Two — Stilgar
• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story — José Menendez, Executive Producer
• 2024Spellbound — King Solon (voice)
• 2024Walking Fernando — Fernando
• 2023The Little Mermaid — King Triton
• Hermanos Menendez: Mal juzgados? — José Menendez
• 2022Look at Me — Leo
• 2022Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile — Hector P. Valenti
• 2021Being the Ricardos — Desi Arnaz
• 2021Dune — Stilgar
• 2021The Good Boss — Julio Blanco
• Home Movie: The Princess Bride — Inigo Montoya
• 2020The Roads Not Taken — Leo
• 2019Sanctuary — Javier Bardem, Producer
• 2018Everybody Knows — Paco
• 2018Thy Kingdom Come — Father Quintana, Producer
• 2017Bigas x Bigas — Executive Producer
• 2017Loving Pablo — Pablo Escobar, Producer
• 2017Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — Armando Salazar
• 2017The Last Face — Dr. Miguel Leon
• 2017mother! — Him
• 2015The Gunman — Felix Marti
• 2014Automata — Blue Robot (voice)
• 2013Scorpion in Love — Solis
• 2013The Counselor — Reiner
• 2013To the Wonder — Father Quintana
• 2012Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen — (archive footage)
• 2012Skyfall — Silva
• 2012Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony — Self - Narrator, Producer
• 2010Biutiful — Uxbal
• 2010Eat Pray Love — Felipe
• 2008Vicky Cristina Barcelona — Juan Antonio Gonzalo
• 2007Love in the Time of Cholera — Florentino Ariza
• 2007No Country for Old Men — Anton Chigurh
• 2006Goya's Ghosts — Lorenzo Casamares
• 2004Collateral — Felix Reyes-Torrena
• 2004El mundo es tuyo
• 2004The Sea Inside — Ramón Sampedro
• 2002Mondays in the Sun — Santa
• 2002The Dancer Upstairs — Agustín Rejas
• 2001Don't Tempt Me — Tony Graco
• 2000Before Night Falls — Reinaldo Arenas
• 1999Between Your Legs — Javier
• 1999Second Skin — Diego
• 1999Washington Wolves — Alberto
• 1998Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law — Sultán
• 1997Airbag — José Alberto 'Amor Obsoleto'
• 1997Dance with the Devil — Romeo
• 1997Live Flesh — David de Paz
• 1997Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health — Stretcher Bearer
• 1996Extasis — Rober
• 1996MAMBRÚ — Cámara
• 1996Not Love, Just Frenzy
• 1995La madre — Hijo
• 1995Mouth to Mouth — Víctor Ventura
• 1994Running Out of Time — Lisardo
• 1994The Detective and Death — Detective
• 1994The Tit and the Moon — Benito González
• 1993Golden Balls — Benito González
• 1993Huidos
• 1993The Bilingual Lover — Limpiabotas
• 1992Amo tu cama rica — Antonio
• Crónicas del mal
• 1992Jamon Jamon — El chorizo
• 1991High Heels — Regidor T.V.
• 1990The Ages of Lulu — Jimmy
• Segunda Enseñanza
• 1981The Powerful Influence Of The Moon — Niño entre gente curiosa (uncredited)
• El pícaro — Alonso de niño
• Hello & Paris — Jackson Cooper
• Sherman and Pacifico — Pacifico
• The Spread — Executive Producer
• The Turning Door — (voice)
• Vallespir 75 (Or how I learned to say goodbye with resignation) — Follet Tortuga
• Wet

Appearances as themselves (31)

• 2026Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition — Self
• Conan O'Brien Must Go — Self
• 2023A Journey to Sundance — Self
• 2022Cruce de caminos — Self
• La Noche D — Self - Guest
• 2018Querido Fotogramas — Self
• 2017mother! The Downward Spiral — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• 2014Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Buenas noches y Buenafuente — Self - Guest
• Conan — Self - Guest
• 2009Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You… — Self
• 2008Behind the Scenes of 'No Country for Old Men': An Incredibly Unauthorized Documentary — Self
• 2008The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' — Self - Anton Chigurh
• 2007Cómo conseguir un papel en Hollywood — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• El hormiguero — Self - Guest
• 2006Hécuba: un sueño de pasión — Self
• 2005El oficio de actor — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self - Guest
• Live from E! — Self
• Lo + plus — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Jeopardy! — Self - Clue Presenter
• The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter
• Today — Self