As Spain's most internationally acclaimed actor, Academy Award® winner JAVIER BARDEM has captivated audiences worldwide with his diverse performances.

Bardem most recently starred in the feature film Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile based on the beloved children's book by Bernard Waber about a crocodile that lives in New York – alongside Shawn Mendes and Constance Wu. The film was released by Sony Pictures in October 2022 with original songs by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, the Oscar winning songwriting team from La La Land. Will Speck & Josh Gordon are directing with a script by Davies.

Next, Bardem will play King Triton in Disney's live action remake of The Little Mermaid by director Rob Marshall, alongside Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Trembley and Jonah Hauer-King. The Little Mermaid releases in theatres globally on May 26, 2023.

On November 3rd, Bardem will reprise his role as Stilgar in Denis Villeneuve's epic science fiction film Dune Part Two alongside Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya which will be released by Warner Brothers. Bardem can be seen in the prequel, Dune, which premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival to rave reviews and won six Academy Awards® in 2022.

In 2021, Bardem also starred Being the Ricardos as the larger-than-life entertainer and entrepreneur Desi Arnaz, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award® and SAG Award for Best Actor. Written and directed by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin the film chronicles a fraught week for Desi and Lucille Ball (played by Nicole Kidman) from table read to audience taping, as they face a series of professional and personal crises that threaten their show, their careers and their marriage.

Additionally, El buen patron / The Good Boss, directed by friend and frequent collaborator Fernando León de Aranoa, was nominated for a record breaking 20 Goya Awards in Spain. In this satire, Bardem plays Blanco, the charismatic owner of a family-run factory, under pressure as he covets a local award for business excellence. As the veneer of the perfect company cracks, Blanco has to deal with a vengeful fired worker, a depressed supervisor and an ambitious intern. The film premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival and was also nominated for a record breaking 20 Goya Awards in Spain.

In 2018, Bardem starred opposite his wife, Penelope Cruz, in Asghar Farhadi's Todos lo saben / Everybody Knows which opened the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Also in 2017, Bardem and Cruz starred in Fernando Leon de Aranoa's biopic, Loving Pablo (Perlak), which tells the true story of a dramatic love affair between notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar, and Colombian journalist, Virginia Vallejo.

Previously, Bardem starred in Darren Aronofsky's Mother! opposite Jennifer Lawrence as well as the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean blockbuster franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

In 2012, Bardem took audiences by storm in one of the most touted installments of the James Bond franchise, Skyfall, as the villain, Raoul Silva, opposite Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe. He has continually received critical acclaim for his role, in addition to being nominated in the supporting actor category for both a Critics Choice Movie Award and a Screen Actors Guild® Award.

The same year, Bardem coproduced and starred in Hijos de las nubes, la última colonia / Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony (Made in Spain), a film documenting how the colonization of the Western Sahara has left nearly 200,000 people living in refugee camps. In October 2011, Bardem and his co-producer Alvaro Longoria, the film's director, addressed the United Nations General Assembly's decolonization committee, urging the delegates to end human rights abuses in the region. The film premiered at the 62nd annual Berlin International Film Festival and has been acquired by Canal Plus in Bardem's native Spain, and was released by GoDigital via iTunes in the U.S.

Bardem was awarded the Best Actor prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Biutiful, a role which also earned him his third Academy Award® nomination.

In 2008, Bardem received the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor for his chilling portrayal of sociopath killer, Anton Chigurh, in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. The performance garnered a Golden Globe® Award, a Screen Actors Guild® Award, a BAFTA and countless other film critic awards and nominations.

Bardem won the Best Actor Award at the 2004 Venice Film Festival for his performance in Alejandro Amenabar's film Mar adentro / The Sea Inside, making him the second actor ever to win the award twice. He also won a Goya Award and received a Golden Globe® nomination for this role. Bardem has won the Goya Award, Spain's equivalent of the Oscar, seven times and has received a total of twelve nominations.

In 2000, Bardem received his first Academy Award® nomination for his portrayal of the Cuban poet and dissident Reinaldo Arenas, in Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls (Zabaltegi-Perlas). He was named Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, received Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics, the Independent Spirit Awards, the National Board of Review and received a Golden Globe® nomination for this role.

His other notable film credits include Ridley Scott's The Counselor (2013), Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012); Eat Pray Love (Official Selection out of competition 2010), opposite Julia Roberts; Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Zabaltegi-Perlas 2008), for which he was again nominated for a Golden Globe® and Independent Spirit Award; John Malkovich's directorial debut The Dancer Upstairs (Zabaltegi-Perlas 2002); Fernando Leon de Aranoa's Los lunes al sol / Mondays in the Sun (Official Selection 2002), which was named best film at the San Sebastian Film Festival; Michael Mann's Collateral (2004); Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera (2007); and Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts (2006), opposite Natalie Portman. In 1994 he received his first recognition in a film festival, with the Silver Shell for best actor for the films Días contados / Numbered days and El detective y la Muerte / The Detective and Death, in San Sebastian.