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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanish actor. Born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, he is the latest in a long line of a family which has been making movies since the earliest days of Spanish movie making: son of Pilar Bardem, niece of Juan Antonio Bardem... His film debut was at the age of 6, and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, athletics. He was a member of the Spanish national rugby team.

In 1992 appeared in Jamón, Jamón, an international hit movie. But his role in that film as a sexy stud made him afraid that he would be typecast, and he deliberately decided to avoid such roles later. Eventually he would land his breakthrough performance role in in Before Night Falls
in 2000, as homosexual Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, the first Spaniard to be so honored.

Bardem also made a brief appearance in Michael Mann's crime drama Collateral
, which starred Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

In 2004, he won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in The Sea Inside, a film about the true-life suicide of Ramón Sampedro. Future roles include an appearance in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming biopic Che
(2006), as well as a starring role as Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar in Joe Carnahan's Killing Pablo. He is also slated to appear in the Coen Brother's No Country for Old Men.

Nominations and awards

Academy Awards

2001 - nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - Before Night Falls

Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival

1994 - won Silver Seashell Best Actor - Días contados and El Detective y la muerte

European Film Awards

2004 - won Best Actor - Mar adentro
2002 - nominated Best Actor - Mondays In The Sun
1998 - nominated Best Actor - Carne trémula

Golden Globes

2005 - nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama - Mar adentro
2001 - nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama - Before Night Falls

Goya Awards

2005 - won Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Mar adentro
2003 - won Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Los lunes al sol (Mondays In The Sun)
1998 - nominated Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Carne trémula
1996 - won Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Boca a boca
1995 - won Mejor Actor de reparto - Best Supporting Actor - Días contados
1994 - nominated Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Huevos de oro
1993 - nominated Mejor Actor Principal - Best Lead Actor - Jamón, jamón

Independent Spirit Awards

2001 - won Best Male Lead - Before Night Falls

Venice Film Festival

2004 - won Volpi Cup Best Actor - Mar adentro
2000 - won Volpi Cup Best Actor - Before Night Falls

Controversy

Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005, Bardem incited controversy when he that if he were gay, he would "get married tomorrow, just to fuck over the church" (mañana mismo, sólo para joder a la Iglesia). Bardem has always been wary of Hollywood, preferring instead to make films in his native Spain or elsewhere.

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