Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, March 1st, 1969), is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Academy Award and the first to win eight years later for his role in No Country for Old Men (2008). He has also won five Goyas, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, the prize of the Cannes Film Festival the Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild award.

Bardem comes from a long line of actors: his grandparents Rafael and Matilde , his mother Pilar and his older brother Carlos are all actors. But it does not end there, since his late uncle Juan Antonio and his cousin Miguel are directors. Still, Javier began in the lower echelons of the Spanish National Rugby 2 and got to play until 1990 with the French School in Madrid CR in positions of pili and third line to the senior before studying painting at the School of Arts and Crafts.

Within only five years, Bardem had a small role in the television series The Rogue ( 1974 ), although not listed in the credits. His first scene as an actor was marked by an anecdote with Fernando Fernan Gomez . Explains the artist, Fernan Gomez sequence pointing a gun and he had to laugh. Instead, he was frightened and cried. His co-worker took his weight to the situation and said, "It's okay, let him, he is a dramatic actor."

After 11 years, Bardem had a small role in the film starring his mother's powerful influence on the Moon, directed by Antonio del Real. In the second half of the 1980s, he made ​​sporadic appearances on Spanish television as a chapter in the series second lesson (1986) and central Brigade (1989), both of Pedro Maso or collaborating with the magazine The day ahead ( 1989), directed and presented by Pepe Navarro.

The years passed and his physique is well suited to play characters that are aggressive and rude. After a brief appearance in the controversial The Ages of Lulu ( Bigas Luna , 1990 ), became one of the principal actors of this fetish and so, with that 18 years later became his wife, Penelope Cruz and Jordi Molla starred in Jamón, jamón ( 1992 ), a film that catapulted the trio to fame. He won in 1994 , the Silver Frames for Best Actor Golden Balls of Bigas Luna , Best Actor Award at the Festival of San Sebastian by numbered days and the detective and death and the Prize Fernando Rey for Outstanding Performance by counting days . A year later, and the latter film won the Goya for Best Male Singer Award Sharing and Actors Union for Best Actor, Silver Frame addition by Word of mouth , through which he won the Goya the protagonist Best Actor in 1996.

In December 1997 he received an Audience Award for Best Actor at the Gala of the European Film Academy in January 1998 competes for the Goya for Best Actor for Flesh. In 1999 back to working with Molla in Second Skin.

Goya

In 2003 won the Goya for Best Actor for his role in leading Los lunes al sol , sharing the spotlight with Luis Tosar , who also won a Goya for this film. At the ceremony of delivery of the prize his voice is heard along with other colleagues, against the war and the invasion of Iraq . In 2004 again won Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival [ citation needed ] , this time for his role in The Sea Inside , which also repeated the Goya for Best Actor.

Into International Film

In 2006 he starred in Love in the Time of Cholera , Mike Newell directed with a dash of South Africa Ronald Harwood and filmed in Cartagena de Indias . In 2008 she starred alongside including Scarlett Johansson and three years later would become his wife Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, directed by New Yorker Woody Allen. In 2008 he won a Golden Globe for the Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film No Country for Old Men from Joel and Ethan Coen . Also, by this same film won the BAFTA the best supporting actor , and finally the Oscar in the same category, being the first Spanish actor to win such an award. After receiving the award, publicly thanked his teacher Corazza your help to write the character. This same year he won the National Film Award. Among his recent projects is Biutiful with whom he won the Goya for best actor.