Javier Bardem Net Worth

Javier Bardem's Quotes

• One of my dreams came true when [Julian Schnabel] showed the movie [Before Night Falls (2000)] to Al Pacino and he called me at 3 a.m. Spanish time and told me he liked my performance. I told him, "There are two things I believe in, God and Al Pacino" [Bardem has, himself, corrected this statements saying "I always said that I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino"]
• [on his girlfriend Cristina, who is a translator and coaching him in English] I'm in love with my English teacher. We have many of our lessons in bed.
• I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on television Sunday night, basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after to see who won or who lost... The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principal meaning of any award.
• We are so scared about talking about death that we are letting people die in silence. It is good to talk publicly.
• It would be amazing to think your film or your performance had the power to make changes, but it's enough that it makes people talk and think. Maybe they shouldn't do anything anyway. The Church has strong feelings and we respect that.

Interesting Facts about Javier Bardem

1. Younger brother of Carlos Bardem and Mónica Bardem.
2. Son of Pilar Bardem. Nephew of Juan Antonio Bardem.
3. Grandson of Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro. Grand nephew of Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro and Mercedes Muñoz Sampedro. Second nephew of Luchy Soto and Carmen Lozano. Cousin of Miguel Bardem. Political grand nephew of Manuel Soto. Political second nephew of Luis Peña.
4. His Best Actor nomination for Before Night Falls (2000) made him the first Spanish actor to receive an Academy Award nomination and his Best Supporting Actor victory for No Country for Old Men (2007) made him the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award.
5. Says in interviews that he does not know how to drive.
6. Played rugby union as a teen and was on the Spanish National Team.
7. Several years ago, a stranger in a disco asked him his name. When Javier replied, the man punched him in the face for no apparent reason, breaking his nose.
8. Javier's original interest was in painting, and he studied at Madrid's Escuela de Artes y Oficios. Eventually, deciding he'd never be a talented painter, he drifted into a number of odd jobs, working as a bouncer, a writer, a construction worker, and even a stripper.
9. To portray Reynaldo Arenas, Javier not only learned Cuban-Spanish, but Cuban-accented English, and lost 30 pounds to better resemble the smaller-framed Arenas.
10. Javier, his mother, Pilar Bardem, and his siblings, Mónica Bardem and Carlos Bardem, often appear in each other's films.
11. To become Ramón Sampedro, a 55-year-old Spanish man who made headlines with a crusade to end his own life, Javier, who was in his thirties at the time, was on the set of Mar adentro (2004) at the crack of dawn for a five-hour makeup session that produced the necessary aging.
12. Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
13. Actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna list him as their favorite actor.
14. Beat out Johnny Depp for the role of Florentino Ariza in Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).
15. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#73) (2007).
16. Dedicated the Oscar he won for No Country for Old Men (2007) to his mother, Pilar, whom he brought with him to the ceremony. At the end of his acceptance speech, Javier said to her (originally in Spanish), "Mom, this is for you, this is for your grandparents, for your parents, Rafael and Matilde, this is for the actors of Spain, who have brought, like you, the dignity and the pride to our job. This is for Spain and this is for all of you.".
17. The Bardem family owns a restaurant in Madrid, Spain called "La Bardemcilla". The restaurant is managed by Javier's sister, Mónica Bardem.
18. Good friends with Josh Brolin and Tom Cruise.
19. Had a long relationship with Cristina Payés. They were together for ten years.
20. Is one of 14 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Geoffrey Rush for Shine (1996), Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004), Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005), Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006), Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012), Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008), and Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Colin Firth for The King's Speech (2010), Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010), J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014), Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant (2015), Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour (2017).