Thursday, May 1, 2025, 18:56
Javier Bardem is one of the most recognized Spanish actors in the film industry. Descend from a family of interpreters. His maternal grandparents, Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz, his mother Pilar Bardem and his brother Carlos have also dedicated themselves to cinema and theater. Javier took his first steps very small. At the age of five he had a cameo in the series ‘The rogue’ with his mother. At eleven, his first appearance in a film thanks to a small role in ‘The powerful influence of the moon’. It was not until the 90s when he began to make his own name in Spanish cinema thanks to his interpretations in tapes such as ‘The ages of Lulu’ or the acclaimed ‘ham, ham’. Although without a doubt, its great success in the early 2000s with ‘Mondays in the sun’ and ‘inside’.
Since then his career was climbing until he reached Hollywood. In the United States he has been lucky enough to work with directors such as Woody Allen. However, it was with the Coen brothers with whom he won the Oscar award for Best Distributed Actor for the movie ‘There will be no peace for the evil’. He was the first Spanish to get it. Beyond his professional facet, Javier Bardem has also been a very followed figure in the world of the heart for his relationship with Penelope Cruz.
The two actors, after a couple of years of relationship, married in 2010 and have always tried to maintain their privacy. It is known that they have had two children: Leo and Luna. It is not usually common for Bardem to speak of his personal life, but recently he has done so in an interview for Cadena Ser. Musician James Rhodes wanted to know the reasons that have taken him and his family to choose Spain as his permanent residence after living several years in the United States.
Javier Bardem has said that he has not only chosen to reside here, but also “pay taxes here” and explained the reasons. “There are Los Angeles and New York, who are a tax madness that then when I work in productions that are Los Angeles and New York to pay 65 or 70% taxes, between here and there,” he said.
-After these words, Rhodes has interrupted him to ask if he has ever considered moving to Andorra since there are less taxes there. Bardem’s response has been blunt: “No, no, no.”
“What about the American culture that you don’t like?” The presenter insisted. «I do not belong to her, with all my respects and all the gratitude of the things that have been able to give me and have given me support and have offered me work, their home, I know people, I have friends … it is another type of culture. Here are my friends, my family, my root, my language, there is my country, ”Bardem has ended up responding.
Where do Bardem and Penelope Cruz live?
The actors have a residence in the Madrid mountains just 30 kilometers from the capital. It is in the exclusive Valdelagua urbanization, next to the Regional Park of the High Basin of Manzanares and very close to the municipalities of San Agustín de Guadalix and Colmenar Viejo.
