Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor, who is perhaps best known for portraying in the ' 2007 neo-western crime thriller film (in which he won an ), Raoul Silva (born Tiago Rodriguez) in ' 2012 spy film , Stilgar in 's 2021 epic sci-fi film , and Hector P. Valenti in the 2022 musical comedy film .
For Disney, he played Captain Salazar in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and King Triton in the 2023 live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, Spain. His mother, Pilar Bardem, was an actress, and his father, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague, was the son of a cattle rancher. According to Pilar's memoirs, José had a "capricious and violent will," and shot up the front door. He changed jobs more than ten times, leading to evictions and the children going hungry. The two separated shortly after Javier's birth. His mother raised him and his elder siblings, Carlos and Mónica, alone (another sibling died shortly after birth), both of whom have also pursued an acting career. His father died of leukemia in 1995.
Bardem came 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 Muñoz Sampedro (sister of actresses Mercedes and Guadalupe), and a nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. On the latter's side, he is a cousin of filmmaker Miguel Bardem. He came from a political background, as his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films. Bardem was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith by his grandmother.
As a child, he spent time at theatres and on film sets. At age six, he made his first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómez's El Pícaro (The Scoundrel). He also played rugby for the junior Spanish National Team. Though he grew up in a family full of actors, Bardem did not see himself going into the family business, and painting was his preferred medium. He went on to study painting for four years at Madrid's Escuela de Artes y oficios. In need of money, he took acting jobs to support his painting but felt he was a bad painter and eventually abandoned it as a career.
==Roles==
Armando Salazar.jpg|Captain Salazar(Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)
The Little Mermaid (2023) - King Triton.jpg|King Triton(The Little Mermaid;2023 live-action adaptation)
==Gallery==
Javier Bardem Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men Tell No Tales premiere.jpg|Javier Bardem at the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in May 2017.
Javier Bardem visits Jimmy Kimmel Live!.jpg|Javier Bardem visiting in February 2019.
Javier Bardem TLM premiere 2023.jpg|Javier Bardem at the premiere of The Little Mermaid remake in May 2023.
==Trivia==
*He was considered for the role of Galactus in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but lost the part to Ralph Ineson.
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