Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem
Born March 1, 1969. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
Is an Academy-Award winning and critically acclaimed Spanish actor who has starred in over two dozen films in Spain. He had garnered critical acclaim as an actor for films such as Jamon, Jamon, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.
Bardem has been awarded a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, four Goyas, two European Film Awards and two Coppa Volpis for his work. He is notable as the first Spanish actor to be nominated and win an Oscar, the nomination being for Before Night Falls and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 2007 film No Country for Old Men.
Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors who have been working since the earliest days of Spanish cinema. Both his older brother and his older sister, Carlos and Mónica Bardem, are actors. His film debut was at the age of six and a half in the film El Pícaro (The Scoundrel) and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, sports.
Before acting professionally, Bardem was a member of the underage Spanish national rugby team.
Filmography: The Dancer Upstairs (2002) - Mondays in the Sun (2002) - Collateral (2004) - The Sea Inside (Mar adentro) (2004) -Goya's Ghosts (2006) - Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) - No Country for Old Men (2007) - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) - Killing Pablo (2009)
Biography by Wikipedia
