Javier Bardem Net Worth [2024] Biography Age, Height And More

Javier Bardem Net Worth: Javier Bardem is an Spanish actor. With his role in the film Before Nightfall (2000), he became the first Spanish performer to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the United States. As of 2024. Javier Bardem has a net worth of $30 million. Years later, after an acclaimed career, he would obtain the prized statuette for his role in No es País para Viejo (2007), becoming the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar.

Son of José Carlos Encinas Doussinague and actress Pilar Bardem . Nephew of the director Juan Antonio Bardem. When he was two years old, his family moved to Madrid.

Name:	Javier Bardem
Age:	54 years
Height	5′ 11″
Net Worth:	$30 Million
Birth Date:	March 1, 1969
Horoscope:	Pisces
Birth Place:	Municipality of Las Palmas, Spain

Studies

Javier Bardem studied painting for four years at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts.

Actor

As an actor he appeared at the age of four in the television series El picaro, in 1985 he starred in four chapters of Second School, and in 1988 he participated in Central Brigade.

Join an independent theater group to perform the plays The Doctor with Sticks and The Three-Cornered Hat.

Javier Bardem’s life could be defined as a ‘cinema’ life. Javier is the youngest member of a family that has been related to a greater or lesser extent with the cinema since his birth. The first appearance on the big screen of the ‘little one’ of the line was in El Pícaro when he was barely six years old.

Grandson of Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, nephew of director Juan Antonio Bardem, son of Pilar Bardem, and brother of Carlos Bardem, Javier continued his acting career in some television series, a job that he combined with one of his great hobbies, rugby. , a sport with which he came to play in the lower categories of the Spanish rugby team.

Convinced of his possibilities as an actor and carrying the power of acting in his blood, Bardem decided to tour the country with an independent theater group, an experience that brought him many stages.

Supported by his family and after having made a small performance at the age of 11 in Antonio del Real’s The Powerful Influence of the Moon, starring his mother, Pilar, Javier was called years later by Bigas Luna to participate in the film Las ages of Lulu. The Catalan director was delighted by the work done by Javier and soon wanted to become his fetish actor.

First Role

His first great role also came through a call from Bigas Luna, who offered him to star in what would be his rise to fame, Jamón, jamón, where he forged a great and lasting friendship with who is currently his wife, the actress Penelope Cross. Turned into a sex symbol, the actor was afraid of being pigeonholed into the role of a handsome boy and far from it, Bardem has managed to transform himself in each of his later works, gaining fame for his ability to appear almost unrecognizable in each one of his movies.

A lover of painting to the point of enrolling in the School of Arts and Crafts, Bardem put aside the brush, and now with more than 25 films and numerous awards to his credit, He has become the most recognized member of his family, both nationally and internationally.

Javier has had the great honor of having become the first Spaniard to be nominated for the Golden Globes and, more importantly, for the Oscars in the category of Best Actor, a step for years later to become the winner of the precious statuette as Best Supporting Actor for No es País para Viejo (2007), preceded by a Golden Globe, made him the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award.

But before these two great prizes sneaked onto his shelf, Bardem got into the critics in his pocket with three great and unforgettable works, in 2000 he got into the skin of the persecuted Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls, leaving the audience speechless with his careful Cuban accent. He lost 40 pounds to bring his character to life but received five best actor awards and an Oscar nomination in return.

Empire magazine in 2007

Considered by Empire magazine in 2007 as one of the 100 most attractive stars on the scene, Javier made the cinema magical by getting into the harsh history of Mondays in the Sun and taking us Mar Adentro with the character of Ramón Sanpedro, a role that It made he remember who he was and why he had to spend five hours in the hands of makeup artists, an impeccable job that was rewarded with an excellent review.

After a ten-year relationship with Cristina Payés, Javier put an end to this courtship, and immersed in his work he found love again, of course, on the big screen. He met up with Penelope Cruz in a Woody Allen tape, Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona, and their great friendship turned into love and, both turned into two Hollywood stars, they began a ‘cinema’ courtship, turning fictional kisses into an exciting reality. Deeply in love and deeply in love Penelope and Javier decided to say ‘yes I do’ in July 2010 at a secret wedding held in The Bahamas, of which only one detail transpired, that Penelope was wearing a dress from her friend the designer John Galliano.

Life smiles at Javier Bardem, in January 2011 he became the father for the first time, of a son as a result of his marriage to Penelope Cruz, and he smiles at life and tries to make it a little better, not only with good cinema but also with solidarity. The actor is a great defender of the Saharawi people and actively participates in the platform Todos con el Sahara, which fights for the recognition of the diplomatic status of the Polisario Front.

Marriage

The couple was married in July 2009 in a secret ceremony in the Bahamas.

Children

On the same day that he learned of his Oscar nomination for his role in Biutiful, Javier Bardem became a father. His wife, also actress Penelope Cruz, gave birth to a baby on January 25, 2010, at the Cedars Sinai luxury clinic in Los Angeles (United States).

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem had their second child, a girl, at the Ruber Internacional Hospital in Madrid on July 22, 2013.