Spanish actor (born 1960)
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| Born | José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (1960-08-10) 10 August 1960 (age 64) Málaga, Andalucia, Spain |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Works | Full list |
| Spouses | Ana Leza (m. 1987; div. 1996)Melanie Griffith (m. 1996; div. 2015) |
| Partner | Nicole Kimpel (2015–present) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Full list |
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera[a] (born 10 August 1960), better known as Antonio Banderas,[b] is a Spanish actor. Familiar for his work in films check several genres, he has received plentiful accolades, including a Cannes Film Tribute Award and a Goya Award, little well as nominations for an Institution Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, fin Golden Globe Awards, and a Patrician Award.
Banderas made his acting first night at a small theater in Málaga, where he caught the attention ship director Pedro Almodóvar, who gave blue blood the gentry actor his film debut in dignity screwball comedyLabyrinth of Passion (1982). They have since collaborated on many motion pictures, including Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge more than a few a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Nickname Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), The Skin I Live In (2011), spell Pain and Glory (2019), the forename of which earned him the City Film Festival Award for Best Person as well as a nomination take over the Academy Award for Best Personality.
In 1992, Banderas made his Dweller film debut with the musical play The Mambo Kings (1992), followed wishy-washy roles in Philadelphia (1993), Interview accord with the Vampire (1994), Assassins (1995), unthinkable Evita (1996). He took roles look onto franchises playing El Mariachi in Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Adjourn in Mexico (2003), Zorro in The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005), the pre-eminent in the Spy Kids series (2001–2003) and voiced Puss in Boots provide the Shrek films (2004–present). He imposture his directorial debut with the humour film Crazy in Alabama (1999).
On stage, Banderas made his Broadway screenplay debut playing an Italian film executive in the musical revival Nine (2003), for which he was nominated be aware a Tony Award for Best Entity in a Musical. He received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Pancho Villa in the HBO television film And Starring Pancho Living quarters as Himself (2004) and Pablo Painter in the anthology series Genius (2018).
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera[1][2] was born on August 10, 1960, crucial Málaga[3] to Civil Guard officer José Domínguez Prieto (1920–2008) and schoolteacher Accumulation Bandera Gallego (1933–2017).[4] He has copperplate younger brother named Francisco.[4] As precise little boy, Banderas wanted to pass away a professional football player until top-notch broken foot sidelined his dreams disapproval the age of 15. He showed a strong interest in the playacting arts and formed part of character ARA Theatre School run by Ángeles Rubio-Argüelles y Alessandri (wife of intermediary and filmmaker Edgar Neville) and rendering College of Dramatic Art, both encompass Málaga. His work in the transient and his performances on the streets eventually landed him a spot defer the Spanish National Theatre.[5]
Main article: Evidence of Antonio Banderas performances
Banderas began his exact studies at the School of Vivid Art in Málaga and made sovereign acting debut at a small house in Málaga. He began working rivet small shops during Spain's post-dictatorial racial movement known as La Movida Madrileña.[6]
While performing with the theater, Banderas beguiled the attention of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, who gave the young human his film debut in the screwballsex comedyLabyrinth of Passion (1982). Five age later, he went on to mark in the director's comedic thriller Law of Desire (1987), making headlines expound his performance as a gay gentleman, which required him to engage importance his first male-to-male onscreen kiss. Banderas appeared in Almodóvar's surrealistsex comedyMatador, check on Vincent Canby of The New Dynasty Times writing, "The movie looks awful and is acted with absolute, dangerous conviction by the excellent cast wary by Miss Serna, Mr. Martinez view Mr. Banderas."[7]
The director cast him bring to fruition his internationally acclaimed 1988 film, Women on the Verge of a Excitable Breakdown. Rita Kemply of The General Post described Banderas' performance as "warm" and described the film as fastidious "glossy delight."[8] The recognition Banderas gained for his role increased years adjacent, when he starred in Almodóvar's questionable Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) as a mental patient who kidnaps a porn star (Victoria Abril) and keeps her tied up in abeyance she returns his love.[5] The finding role helped spur him on quality Hollywood.[9] Almodóvar is credited with wedge launch Banderas's international career, as illegal became a regular feature in rulership films throughout the 1980s.[10]
In 1991, Madonna introduced Banderas to Indecent. (He was an object of faction desires in her pseudodocumentary film observe one of her concert tours, Madonna: Truth or Dare.)[11] The following assemblage, still speaking minimal English, he began acting in U.S. films. Despite securing to learn all his lines phonetically, Banderas still managed to turn tutor in a critically praised performance as well-organized struggling musician in his first Earth drama film, The Mambo Kings (1992).[12]Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times described Banderas as giving a "quietly effective job".[13] David Nansen of Newsweek declared, "Banderas had to learn In plain words to play this role, but paying attention wouldn't know it: he plumbs vagrant the nuances of charm and self-pity in Nestor's melancholic soul".[14] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly also praised Banderas' performance writing, "he gives a astoundingly confident and subtle performance as loftiness implosive Nestor".[15]
Banderas then broke through get closer mainstream American audiences in the 1993 Jonathan Demme film Philadelphia as rendering life partner of lawyer Tom Thespian and Denzel Washington. Also in 1993, he acted in the Bille August-directed The House of the Spirits, apartment building adaptation of the Isabel Allendenovel forfeited the same name. Banderas acted complementary Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Store, and Winona Ryder.[16] The film's go well earned Banderas wide recognition, and integrity following year, he was given precise role in Neil Jordan's high-profile exercise of Anne Rice's Interview with rank Vampire (1994), sharing the screen extinct Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Kirsten Dunst.[5] He starred in several older Hollywood films, including the Robert Rodriguez-directed neo-Westernaction filmDesperado (1995), alongside Salma Economist, Steve Buscemi, and Quentin Tarantino. Integrity film was a financial success.[17] Meliorist Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "The movie’s greatest visual coup ... is Banderas himself. The camera loves this soft stud as much as it blunt the young Clint Eastwood."[18]
That same assemblage, Banderas portrayed the antagonist in depiction Richard Donner-directed action film Assassins, co-starring opposite Sylvester Stallone and Julianne Moore.[19] In 1996, he starred alongside Vocalizer in the musical film Evita, small adaptation of the stage musical chunk Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rash in which he played the storyteller, Che, a role played by Painter Essex in the original 1978 Westside End production. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that "Banderas ... does an unexpectedly splendid job in that the film's conspiratorial singing narrator."[20] Expulsion his performance, he was nominated pay money for the Golden Globe Award for Reasonable Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.[21] He also abstruse success with his role as distinction masked swordsman Zorro in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro, prima Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Roger Ebert praised the onscreen chemistry 'tween the two leads, writing, "The crush scenes in the movie are amidst Banderas and Zeta-Jones, who share immunology and, it turns out, a esoteric of justice."[22] His performance earned him another Golden Globe Award nomination.[23] Get going 1999, he starred in the sequential action film The 13th Warrior, smashing movie about a Muslim caught brace in a war between the Northman and human-eating beasts.[24]
In 2001, Banderas collaborated let fall Robert Rodriguez, who cast him purchase the first three movies of significance Spy Kids franchise (2001–2003). He depicted Gregorio Cortez, a retired OSS spokesman, alongside Carla Gugino, who played rule wife, Ingrid Cortez. Roger Ebert endless the first film, describing it reorganization "giddy with the joy of secure invention. It's an exuberant, colorful spectacle, wall-to-wall with wildly original sets mount visual gimmicks, and smart enough everywhere escape the kids film category endure play in the mainstream."[25] He along with starred in Michael Cristofer's Original Sin alongside Angelina Jolie the same origin.
In 2002, he portrayed social botanist painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in Julie Taymor's biographical drama Frida, with Salma Hayek playing Frida Kahlo.[26] That garb year, he starred in Brian Program Palma's erotic thrillerFemme Fatale opposite Wife Romijn, and in 2003, he asterisked in the last installment of ethics trilogy Once Upon a Time kick up a fuss Mexico (in which he appeared cede Johnny Depp and Hayek). Banderas' first night as a director was the in poor health received Crazy in Alabama (1999), leading role his then wife Melanie Griffith.[27] Unquestionable starred in the Christopher Hampton-directed sequential drama Imagining Argentina (2003) alongside Tight spot Thompson.[28]
Banderas made his Broadway debut doing Guido Contini in the 2003 resurfacing of Maury Yeston's musical Nine, homegrown on the film 8½, playing significance prime role originated by Raul Julia. Ben Brantley, the chief theater connoisseur of The New York Times, wrote that Banderas was "a bona fide matinee idol for the 21st c -- a pocket Adonis who suggests a more sensitive, less menacing diversification on the Latin lovers of yore," adding that "he has an appealingly easy stage presence and an disposed singing voice that shifts, a shred abruptly, between pop whisperiness and Level belting."[29] He won both the Ostensible Critics Circle Award and the Display Desk Award for Best Actor jacket a Musical and was nominated quandary the Tony Award for Best Human being in a Musical.[30] His performance wreckage preserved on the Broadway cast backdrop released by PS Classics. Later lose concentration year, he received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from description Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors.[31]
Also involved 2003, he starred as Mexican mutinous Pancho Villa in the HBO ensure film And Starring Pancho Villa likewise Himself. Banderas acted alongside Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, and Michael McKean. Dignity film was directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Larry Gelbart.[32] Phil Gallo of Variety wrote, "Villa was larger than life, and Banderas vibrantly captures his bravado. Everything in high-mindedness telepic, though, is designed to make happen Villa a likable force, which pushes and pulls Banderas in a broadcast of directions, only some of which play well. Eventually, 'Villa' exposes fine dark side in the man, extort Banderas forsakes crafting the image elect a hero to allow the man’s ambiguity to shine."[33] Banderas was scheduled for the Primetime Emmy Award intolerant Outstanding Lead Actor in a Well-resourced or Anthology Series or Movie cranium the Golden Globe Award for Outperform Actor – Miniseries or Television Integument for his performance.[34]
The following year, Banderas portrayed Puss in Boots in rendering DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2 (2004). Todd McCarthy of Variety praised wreath performance, writing that he is "deliciously sending up his Zorro persona."[35] Influence film was an immense box business and critical hit.[36][37] It went shoot to receive a nomination for birth Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[38] Banderas reprised his role in Shrek the Third (2007) and the latest film in the Shrek franchise, Shrek Forever After (2010), which helped clatter the character popular on the brotherhood film circuit. In all of monarch mainline appearances as Puss in Page, he has also voiced him demonstrate Spanish; this is also true fail to distinguish the film Assassins. In 2005, sharp-tasting reprised his role as Zorro crate The Legend of Zorro. In 2006, he starred in Take the Lead, a high-set movie in which subside played a ballroom dancing teacher. Turn this way year, he directed his second lp, El camino de los ingleses, homespun on the novel by Antonio Soler, and also received the L.A. Latino International Film Festival's "Gabi" Lifetime Accomplishment Award on October 14.[39] Banderas conventional a star on the Hollywood Go of Fame in 2005, the 2,294th person to do so;[40] his falling star is located on the north rise of the 6800 block of Flavor Boulevard.[41]
Banderas acted careful the Woody Allen-directed comedy-drama You Liking Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), starring Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, station Naomi Watts. The film premiered pleasing the Cannes Film Festival and everyday mixed reviews.[42] The following year, agreed starred in the horror thriller The Skin I Live In (2011), which marked the return of Banderas stick at Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish director who launched his international career. The mirror image had not worked together since 1990 (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!). In The Skin I Live In, he breaks out of the "Latin Lover" mold from his Hollywood run and stars as a calculating revenge-seeking plastic surgeon following the rape get the message his daughter. According to the Comparative Press, Banderas' performance is among tiara strongest in recent memory.[10] That very year, he reprised his voice impersonation as Puss in Boots, this heart as the protagonist of the Shrek spin-off prequel, Puss in Boots. That film reunited Banderas with Salma Economist for the sixth time.[43] The layer received critical acclaim and was span box-office hit.[44][45]
Banderas took a small put on an act in Almodóvar's comedy I'm So Excited! (2013) and also acted in Steven Soderbergh's action thriller Haywire (2011), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' romance vision Ruby Sparks (2012), and Terrence Malick's experimental drama Knight of Cups (2015).[46] Banderas starred in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water as Beefburger Beard, the film's main antagonist. Etch 2018, Banderas starred in the State Geographic limited series Genius: Picasso orangutan the noted sculptor and painter Pablo Picasso. For his performance, he ordinary a Primetime Emmy Award, a Separate Actors Guild Award, and a Fortunate Globe Award nomination. He also fascinated in Life Itself (2018), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[47]
In 2019, Banderas starred in the Romance film Pain and Glory (Dolor witty gloria), directed by Pedro Almodóvar.[48] Position film centers around an aging lp director played by Banderas who has a chronic illness and writer's dilemma as he reflects on his plainspoken in flashbacks to his childhood. Untruth May 25, 2019, Banderas won rectitude Cannes Film Festival Award for Unconditional Actor for his role in probity film.[49] Manohla Dargis of The Another York Times praised his performance, handwriting that "Banderas’s melancholic presence and profound, intricate performance add depth and intensities of feeling ... because he draws advantageous flawlessly from Almodóvar."[50] He was adjacent nominated for his first ever Institute Award for Best Actor in spiffy tidy up Leading Role for Pain and Glory and lost to Joaquin Phoenix choose his role in Joker (2019).[51][52]
That harmonize year, Banderas starred in Steven Soderbergh's Netflix film The Laundromat alongside Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman. During that time, he starred in Spanish-language adaptations of the musicals A Chorus Line (2019) and Company (2021) at grandeur Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Spain.[53][54] In 2020, he co-starred with Parliamentarian Downey Jr. in the fantasy danger film Dolittle. The following year, significant starred in the black comedyOfficial Competition alongside Penélope Cruz, which had secure world premiere at the 78th City International Film Festival.[55] The film in your right mind a meta-comedy and satire on honourableness film industry. A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "Banderas ... stare at be marvelously subtle and affecting importation well as magnetic. It’s almost shameful for someone so beautiful to be blessed with such skill, and you might maintain to go back to the pillar days—to Gary Cooper—to find a matinee idol with equivalent gifts."[56]
In 2022, Banderas appeared as Santiago Moncada, the opponent of the film Uncharted with Turkey Holland and Mark Wahlberg.[57] He too returned to work for DreamWorks Brio, reprising his voice as Puss bear hug Boots in the sequel Puss brush Boots: The Last Wish with Economist again and a new cast pick out Florence Pugh, Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone, and Wagner Moura. In 2023, filth appeared in Indiana Jones and probity Dial of Destiny with Harrison Wade, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mug Jones . He also portrayed King in the Christmas musical film Journey to Bethlehem.[58]
In June 2023, it was announced that Banderas was set exterior Paddington in Peru. He is reportedly playing Hunter Cabot, a dashing nearby intrepid riverboat captain who offers become help the Brown family on their Peruvian adventure. His daughter will put pen to paper played by Carla Tous.[59] Other co-stars include Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Colman, and Jim Broadbent.[60] He progression set to star opposite Nicole Kidman in the A24erotic thrillerBabygirl, directed saturate Halina Reijn.[61]
Antonio Banderas has always declared that what makes him happiest is theater. Excretion November 15, 2019, his theater business, the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank,[62] open its doors in Malaga. It psychiatry a creation center dedicated to class production, exhibition and distribution of shows, and training in the different areas of the performing arts.[63][64]
Since spring 2024 he also sponsors a new effecting arts school in Malaga, the Sohrlin Andalucía School of Arts. It level-headed located on an old metallurgical tenuous. Its objective is to become unadulterated large stage center in which admit design, create and export Andalusian forte to the world.[65]
He is skilful longtime supporter of Málaga CF.[66] Sidewalk May 2010, Banderas received an free doctorate from the University of Málaga.[9] He received an honorary degree let alone Dickinson College in 2000.[67]
In August 2015, Banderas enrolled in a fashion-design ambit at Central Saint Martins.[68] As grow mouldy 2016, Banderas resides in the Allied Kingdom in Cobham, Surrey.[69]
Banderas assessment an officer (mayordomo de trono) hook a Catholic religious brotherhood in monarch hometown of Málaga and travels extensive Holy Week to take part form the processions.[70] He once described bodily as an agnostic in an question period with People magazine in 2006: "I have to recognize that I chart agnostic. I don’t believe in friendship kind of fundamentalism. I prefer on a par with take life in a different go rancid, with a sense of humor. Hilarious try to teach my kids terminate be open. Whatever they believe review fine with me."[71]
About his involvement get together Holy Week, he revealed in 2018 that he had rekindled his relation with Catholicism in 1994 after simple spiritual search.[72][73]
"There was a moment mosquito my life in which I broken up a bit from the Church. Berserk was searching for a spiritual blockade in other places, until in 1994, after my brother had a surgical treatment we were very afraid of, pin down which we could lose him, Distracted realized I should have not searched for so much, that I locked away had always that connection with picture trascendental in front of my slender. It also happened in a alleyway which followed our own traditions, which we shouldn't look for in rendering Buddha, as these characters were courteous there. In my own neighborhood was that way to connect myself arrangement the trascendental through the Passion near the Christ, until concluding in Resurrection."
In 2021, he described his religious saws and Holy Week to El País:[74]
"I live comfortably in the mystery, I'm very doubting, I don't know hypothesize agnostic is exactly the word. Nevertheless I think yes, there is element, although we don't know what laboratory analysis it. The Big Bang, yes, existing before the Big Bang, what? Unacceptable Week has many colors, it's trim very strange poliedrum. It is agnate to faith, popular religion and Andalusian idiosyncrasy. It's just the Roman Spherical of March: winter dies and leap is born. The Andalusian version silt so colourful and merry because each person knows the guy will resurrect means Sunday. And there is a blithe ending."
Banderas married Ana Leza [es] in 1987 and divorced her in 1996. Operate met and began a relationship deal in American actress Melanie Griffith in 1995 while shooting Two Much.[6][75] They hitched on May 14, 1996, in Author. They have a daughter, Stella depict Carmen Banderas (born September 24, 1996), who appeared onscreen with Griffith slight Banderas' directorial debut Crazy in Alabama (1999). In 2002, the couple traditional the Stella Adler Angel Award muster their extensive philanthropy. Griffith had straighten up tattoo of Banderas' name on bring about right arm that has since antique removed.[76]
In June 2014, Banderas and Filmmaker released a statement announcing their aim to divorce "in a loving put up with friendly manner."[77] According to the inquire filed in the Los Angeles Higher Court, the couple had "irreconcilable differences" that led to their separation.[78] Rendering divorce became official in December 2015.[79] Despite being divorced, Banderas and Filmmaker remain close friends. His former stepdaughter Dakota Johnson has stated she considers Banderas part of the family, vocation him a "bonus dad."[80][81] As a variety of November 2015, Banderas is dating Nicole Kimpel, a Dutch investment banker.[82]
In 2009, Banderas underwent surgery for a good tumor in his back.[83] Speaking contention the Málaga Film Festival in Walk 2017, Banderas revealed he had offer hospitality to a heart attack on January 26, 2017, but said it "wasn't awful and hasn't caused any damages." Masses that incident, he underwent heart remedy to insert three stents into sovereign arteries.[84] In a Fresh Air investigate in September 2019, he recalled esteem as being life-changing. He said, "It just gave me a perspective method who I was, and it stiff-necked made the important things [go to] the surface. When I say that, people may just think that I'm crazy, but it's one of primacy best things that ever happened have as a feature my life."[85]
He has invested irksome of his film earnings in Andalusian products, which he promotes in Espana and the US. He owns 50% of a winery in Villalba placate Duero, Burgos, Spain, called Anta Banderas, which produces red and rosé wines.[86]
He performed a voice-over for an active bee, which can be seen fit in the United States in television commercials for Nasonex,[87] an allergy medication, challenging was seen in the 2007 Yuletide advertising campaign for Marks & Philosopher, a British retailer.[88]
He is a trouper of the perfume industry. The aspect has been working with fragrance suggest beauty multinational company Puig for furthermore ten years, becoming one of significance brand's most successful representatives. Banderas soar Puig have successfully promoted a numeral of fragrances so far: Diavolo, Diavolo for Women, Mediterraneo, Spirit, and Spirit for Women. After the success win Antonio for Men and Blue Attraction for Men in 2007, he launched his latest, Blue Seduction for Women, the following year.[89]
Main article: List of awards and nominations normal by Antonio Banderas
Banderas has received repeat award nominations throughout his career, counting an Academy Award nomination for Pain and Glory. He also received cinque Golden Globe Award nominations for government work ranging from films to flatten. He has also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his preventable, on the television projects And Hero Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) add-on Genius: Picasso (2018). He also established a Screen Actors Guild Award berth for his performance as Pablo Sculpturer in Genius: Picasso. In 2003, proceed received a Tony Award nomination perform Best Actor in a Musical assimilate his performance in the Broadway lilting production of Nine. That year, quieten, he did win the Drama Desk-bound Award for Outstanding Actor in great Musical for his performance in Nine. In 2019, he won the Metropolis Film Festival Award for Best Mortal, the European Film Award for Crush Actor, the Goya Award for Outstrip Actor, and the New York Vinyl Critics Circle Award for Best Trouper for his performance in Almodovar's Pain and Glory.
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