Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem was born on the 1st March 1969, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain and is an awarded actor widely known for his roles in numerous blockbusters including “Before Night Falls” (2000), “Mondays in the Sun” (2002), “No Country for Old Men” (2007) “Biutiful” (2010) as well as 2012 James Bond adventure – “Skyfall”.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this talented artist has accumulated so far? How rich Javier Bardem is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Javier Bardem’s net worth, as of mid-2016, is $20 million, acquired throughout his acting career that has been active since 1990.
Javier Bardem Net Worth $20 Million
Javier Bardem was raised by his mother who was also an actress, Maria del Pilar Bardem after she divorced from his father, José Carlos Encinas Doussinague, an environmentalist businessman. Javier is not the first actor within the family – he is a descendant of a generation of actors and movie makers, his grandparents Matilde Muñoz Sampedro and Rafael Bardem Solé were both actors and his uncle Juan Antonio Bardem is a director and screenwriter. Javier Bardem’s older siblings, Mónica and Carlos are both actors, but with more modest careers than his.
Although he grew up among the actors and spent plenty of spare time as a kid in various theaters and on sets, and even played a small role in the 1974 TV series “El pícaro” as a six-year-old, Javier Bardem wasn’t into acting at all. He played rugby for the junior Spanish National Team, before enrolling in college where he dedicated himself to studying his first love – painting. However, during four years at Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid, he landed several acting projects in order to support his studies. As he confessed many years later, he also worked as a stripper, although for one single day only.
At the age of 20, Javier Bardem got his first “real acting” role, in Bigas Luna’s 1990 erotic drama – “The Ages of Lulu”. The director recognized his talent and gave him the leading male role in his next movie, the 1992 black comedy “Jamón Jamón” in which he starred opposite young Penélope Cruz. The movie was a notable international success, and Javier Bardem continued collaboration with Bigas Luna in 1993 “Golden Balls”. These engagements helped Javier to enter into the acting world, and establish himself as a competent actor who later gathered quite a remarkable net worth.
After several years and a dozen movies later, in 1997 Javier Bardem got his first non-Spanish-speaking role in the horror movie “Perdita Durango” (or “Dance with the Devil” in the USA). The real breakthrough in Javier Bardem’s career came in 2000, with Julian Schnabel’s drama “Before Night Falls” in which he starred as Reinaldo Arenas opposite Sean Penn and Johnny Depp. The latter appearance, besides earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, also added a significant sum to Javier Bardem’s overall net worth.
Before winning the Venice Film Festival’s Best Actor award for his performance in the 2004 drama “Mar Adentro” (“The Sea Inside” in the states), Javier Bardem played the main character in John Malkovich’s debut as a director – “The Dancer Upstairs” (2002). Two years later, Javier Bardem made his Hollywood debut with a side role in “Collateral” (2004). In 2007, Javier appeared in the Coen Brothers’ “No Country for Old Man” as well as in the “Love in the Time of Cholera”. These involvements dramatically increased Javier Bardem’s fame as well as his wealth.
In 2008, Javier Bardem starred alongside Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen’s romantic drama “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” before winning the Goya Award for Best Actor for the 2010 drama “Biutiful”. Javier also played Mr. Bond’s arch enemy in 2012 “Skyfall”, as well as the rich and arrogant businessman in Ridley Scott’s crime drama “The Counselor” (2013), with Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. The most recent Javier Bardem acting engagement is the action thriller “The Gunman” featuring Sean Penn in the leading role. All these ventures have made a huge, positive impact on Javier Bardem’s net worth.
In his acting career so far, Javier Bardem has appeared in almost 40 movies, and been rewarded five Goyas, an Oscar, BAFTA and Academy Awards as well as Golden Globe and SAG Awards. He has also been honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, in 2012.
When it comes to his personal life, Javier Bardem has been married to Penélope Cruz since 2010. They began dating in 2007 during filming “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, but managed to keep their relationship low profile before the wedding in The Bahamas. The couple has two children.
