Javier
Bardem
Like
Antonio Banderas or Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem is an excellent
young Spanish actor who is very recognised in Spain because of his extraordinary
talent and compromise with each role he performs. Now, after his last
film Before Night falls he is becoming a star out of Spain. These three
Spanish Actors shared works together, and were directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
Javier Bardem was born 32 years ago in The Cannary Islands. He belongs
to a very well know Spanish actors family. His mother, Pilar Bardem
is a great actress, also his grandparents, uncle and brother Carlos.
This particular situation made him to grow up in the world of theatre
and cinema, discovering everything related to acting.
Besides his love for performance, Javier Bardem has another passions:
sports, like boxing and rugby or painting and drawing.
His first appearance as a very young actor was when he was six and he
worked in a TV program directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez,
another great actor and writer, also very famous in Spain.
But his first professional work was 11 years ago, in 1990, when appeared
in Las Edades de Lulú, directed by Bigas Lunas, a Spanish director
who loves to work with Javier Bardem. There are three more interesting
films where they worked together: Jamón, Jamón (1992),
Huevos de Oro (1993) and La Teta y la Luna (1994).
During this decade he won some of the relevant awards an actor can obtain:
In 1993, The Fotogramas de Plata, in 1994 was nominated as Best Actor
for the Goya Award, in 1994 obtained The Best Actor Award in The San
Sebastian's Festival, in 1995 was awarded with The Goya as Supporting
Actor, and in 1998 was nominated for the Goya as Best Actor.
After more than 20 films, he is now nominated to the Oscar Award as
Best Actor, because of his role of Reynaldo Arenas an homosexual Cuban
writer in Before Night Falls, where he was directed by Julian Schnaebel..
This is Javier Bardem's first work made out of Spain and spoken in a
foreign language (English) and his nomination the first one given to
an Spanish Actor is this category.
Since the first time the film became a success in every festival where
it was shown and Javier Bardem started to be regarded as a new star.
Next March 25th, will be a great opportunity for Javier to introduce
himself and show his talent to other colleagues from different countries
and stages. We hope people could appreciate his professionalism in all
work he does.
Some of his relevant works are: Días Contados (1994) by Imanol
Uribe, Extasis (1996) by Mariano Barroso, Perdita Durango (1997) by
Álex de la Iglesia, Live Flesh (1997) by Pedro Almodóvar,
and Los Lobos de Washington (1999) by Mariano Barroso.
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