Javier Bardem, a gorgeous talent

Javier Bardem might be a new face to you, but this sexy Spaniard is not new to the show business. Coming from a lineage of actors, Javier made his film debut at age six in El Pícaro and acted in several TV series as a teenager. In 1992, he played a stud in the black comedy Jamón, jamón, becoming one of the most popular actors in Spain.

Unlike his colleague Antonio Banderas, who also made the crossover into Hollywood film, Bardem has wisely turned down roles that would type cast him as a brawny sex symbol, and in contrast, he has interpreted tough, heavy roles that have gained him recognition from both critic and audience. He plays a homosexual who survived censorship, imprisonment and intolerance for the privilege to write freely in Before the Night Falls (2000), and most recently won an Oscar for his outstanding performance as a freakishly evil psychopath in No Country for old men (2007).


This year we will see Javier starring along girlfriend Penelope Cruz and Woody Allen's new muse Scarlett Johanson in the director's new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the story of a painter who enters a relationship with two American tourists and conflict begins with the painter's jealous ex-girlfriend.