Newsweek analyzes data from Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDb to rank Bardem's movies, which include 'Skyfall', 'No Country for Old Men' and 'Before Night Falls.'
Javier Bardem, who turns 50 today, was born in the Canary Islands, southwest of mainland Spain, into a theatrical family. At the age of 20, he appeared in his first major movie,The Guardian
described the Spanish-language film, directed by Bigas Luna, as “almost exclusively about sex” and “precariously close to porn in its style”. Since then, he has worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest directors, from Woody Allen, Darren Aronofsky and the Coen Brothers to Ridley Scott, Terrence Malick and Sam MendesIn 2001, Bardem became the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Oscar, for his performance in—also the first role for which he learned English.
He is married to fellow Spanish actor Penélope Cruz. In a case of life imitating art, they fell for each other while playing a couple in Woody Allen’s 2008 project, the new film from Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi. His stellar career shows no sign of slowing. In 2020, Bardem will star in the much-anticipated movie adaptation ofFans of the book hope this new adaptation will be better than the 1984 one written and directed by David Lynch. Legendary film critic Roger Ebert called it “a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time.
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