Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men. Bardem has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón Jamón, Carne trémula, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Boca a boca, Los lunes al sol, Mar adentro, and Skyfall. In January 2018, Bardem became ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica.
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men. Bardem has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón Jamón, Carne trémula, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Boca a boca, Los lunes al sol, Mar adentro, and Skyfall. He was the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar, as well as the first Spaniard to win one. In January 2018, Bardem became ambassador of Greenpeace for the protection of Antarctica. He is a grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro and a nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. His uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. He has confessed to having worked as a stripper during his struggling acting career. His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague, was the son of a cattle rancher. The two separated shortly after Javier’s birth and his mother raised him and his elder siblings, Carlos and Mónica, alone.
He came to notice in a small role in his first major motion picture, The Ages of Lulu, when he was 21, in which he appeared along with his mother. In 2011, he received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, for the film Biutiful. His first English-speaking role came in the film Perdita la Iglesia de la Durango, playing a bank robber. After starring in two dozen films in his native Spain, he gained recognition in Julian Schnabel’s Before Night Falls in 2000, portraying Cuban poet Reinaldo Areninaldo. Immediately after he received a nomination for Best Actor, he turned down the international award for that role, and turned down a Spaniard, for a role in the movie Before Night falls. In 1997, John Malkovich was first to approach him, then a 27-year-old English, but the Spanish actor turned down his offer because his English was still poor-speaking. He went on to study painting for four years at Madrid’s Escuela de Artes y Oficios. As a child, he made his first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómez’s El Pícaro. He also played rugby for the junior Spanish National Team.
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