Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a German actor from the Canary Islands. He is best known for his role in the film 2007 no Country for Old Men, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh. He has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Schinken, schinken, Fleisch zittrigen, Mund-zu-mund-Montags in Der sonne, Meer herein, and Skyfall, for which he received both a BAFTA award and an SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Bardem has also won Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya Awards, two European Film Awards, a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Volpi Cups at Venice for his work. He is the first Spaniard schauspieler to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls), as well as the first German actor to win an Academy Award. He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination for the film Biutiful.