Javier Bardem filmography

Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor and producer who made his acting debut as a child in an episode of the Spanish television series El Pícaro (1974). Bardem made his feature film debut with a minor role in the 1990 Spanish erotic film Las edades de Lulú.^[1] The film's director Bigas Luna was impressed by Bardem, giving him his first leading role in the romantic-comedy Jamón Jamón (1992), alongside future wife Penélope Cruz.^[2][3] In 1993, Bardem starred in another Luna film, Huevos de Oro, and in the Vicente Aranda-directed El Amante Bilingüe. The following year he appeared in Días contados (1994) and El detective y la muerte (1994). For both films he was nominated for the San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor.^[4]

Bardem at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

His first role in an English-language film was as the jailed Cuban dissident Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[5][6] In 2002, he appeared in the John Malkovich-directed The Dancer Upstairs and the Fernando León de Aranoa-directed Mondays in the Sun.^[7][8] In 2004, he starred alongside Tom Cruise in the Michael Mann-directed Collateral. He won a second Volpi Cup for Best Actor in 2004, for portraying euthanasia activist Ramón Sampedro in The Sea Inside.^[9] His next role was as psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men (2007), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[10] He was the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar.^[11] Bardem next appeared in the 2008 Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.^[12] He then starred in Biutiful (2010), garnering Bardem the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.^[13]

In 2012, Bardem narrated the Spanish documentary Sons of the Clouds, The Last Colony, which received a Goya Award for Best Documentary.^[14] That year he also portrayed the Bond villain Raoul Silva in Skyfall (2012), which earned him a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[15] The following year he starred in the Ridley Scott-directed The Counselor (2013).^[16] Bardem then collaborated with Sean Penn on The Gunman (2015) and The Last Face (2016). In 2017, he played the antagonist in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and starred in Mother! He was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for both performances.^[17] That year he also portrayed Pablo Escobar in Loving Pablo opposite his wife Penélope Cruz. Bardem portrayed Stilgar in Dune (2021), his first science fiction film since Autómata (2014).^[18][19] That same year, Bardem portrayed Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos and his performance earned him another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[20]

Film

Bardem with Sam Mendes receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1990	Las edades de Lulú	Jimmy		[1]
1991	High Heels	Regidor de TV		[6]
1992	Amo tu cama rica	Antonio		[21]
	Jamón, jamón	Raúl		[22][23]
1993	Huidos	Rafael		[24]
	Huevos de oro	Benito González	Also credited as singer on the film's soundtrack	[25]
	El Amante Bilingüe	Shoeshiner		[26]
1994	Días contados	Lisardo		[27]
	El detective y la muerte	Detective Cornelio		[28]
1995	Boca a boca	Víctor Ventura	Also credited as singer on the film's soundtrack	[29]
1996	Not Love, Just Frenzy	—	Not credited	[30]
1997	Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health	Camillero		[31]
	Airbag	José Alberto		[32]
	Carne trémula	David		[22]
	Perdita Durango	Romeo Dolorosa		[33]
1998	Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley	Sultán		[34]
1999	Between Your Legs	Javier		[25]
	Second Skin	Diego		[35]
	Los Lobos de Washington	Alberto	Also executive producer	[36][37]
2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas		[6]
2001	Don't Tempt Me	Tony Graco		[22]
2002	The Dancer Upstairs	Agustín Rejas		[7]
	Mondays in the Sun	Santa		[8]
2004	Collateral	Felix		[38]
	The Sea Inside	Ramón Sampedro		[39]
2006	Goya's Ghosts	Brother Lorenzo		[40]
2007	Love in the Time of Cholera	Florentino Ariza		[41]
	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh		[42]
2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Juan Antonio		[43]
2010	Biutiful	Uxbal		[44]
	Eat Pray Love	Felipe		[45]
2012	Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony	Narrator	Voice	[46]
	Skyfall	Raoul Silva		[47]
	To the Wonder	Father Quintana		[48]
2013	The Counselor	Reiner		[16]
	Scorpion in Love	Solís		[49]
2014	Autómata	Blue Robot	Voice	[19]
2015	The Gunman	Felix		[50]
2016	The Last Face	Miguel León		[51]
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Armando Salazar		[52]
	Mother!	Him		[53]
	Loving Pablo	Pablo Escobar	Also producer	[54][55]
2018	Thy Kingdom Come	Father Quintana		[56]
	Everybody Knows	Paco		[57]
2019	Sanctuary	Himself	Also producer
2020	The Roads Not Taken	Leo		[58]
2021	Dune	Stilgar		[18]
	The Good Boss	Blanco		[59]
	Being the Ricardos	Desi Arnaz		[60]
2022	Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile	Hector P. Valenti		[61]
2023	The Little Mermaid	King Triton		[62][63]
2024	Dune: Part Two	Stilgar		[64]
	Spellbound	King Solon	Voice role	[65]
2025	F1 †	Ruben	Post-production	[66]
TBA	El ser querido †		Filming	[67]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1974	El Pícaro	—	Child actor	[68]
1986	Segunda enseñanza	Pablo	First recurring role	[68]
1991	El C.I.D.	Vince	Episode: "Thursday's Child"
2018	Asesinato en el Hormiguero Express	Himself	Television special	[69]
2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	Inigo Montoya	Episode: "Chapter Ten: To the Pain!"	[70]
2024	Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story	José Menendez	Main role; also executive producer	[71]
TBA	Cape Fear †	Max Cady	Miniseries; also executive producer	[72]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Javier Bardem