Javier Bardem

Javier ngel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor from the Canary Islands. He is best known for his role in the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh. He has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamn, jamn, Carne trmula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol, Mar adentro, and Skyfall, for which he received both a BAFTA and a SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Pilar Bardem , is an actress, and his father, Jos Carlos Encinas Doussinague , was a businessman involved in environmental work. The two separated shortly after his birth. His mother raised him alone. Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors dating back to the earliest days of Spanish cinema he is a grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muoz Sampedro, and nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mnica, are actors. He also comes from a political background, as his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his antifascist films. Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith by his grandmother.

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