
Age: 57
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career that has lasted over thirty years, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, seven Goya Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. A son of actress Pilar Bardem, he first became known for such Spanish films as Jamón jamón(1992), Boca a boca (1995), Carne trémula(1997), Los lunes al sol (2002), and Mar adentro (2004). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010), and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021). His portrayal of assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' western film No Country for Old Men (2007) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem has also starred in auteur-driven films such as Woody Allen's romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Terrence Malick's drama To the Wonder (2013), Darren Aronofsky's horror film mother! (2017), and Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama Everybody Knows (2018). He also acted in blockbuster films such as the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), the swashbuckler film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales(2017), the science fiction epic films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), and Disney's live-action remake The Little Mermaid (2023). On television, he portrayed José Menendez in the Netflix crime anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). Bardem married actress Penélope Cruz in 2010, and they have two children together. In January 2018, Bardem became Greenpeace's ambassador for Antarctica's protection. Description above from the Wikipedia article Javier Bardem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The events of EMPYRE began when Teddy became the Emperor Supreme of the Kree and the Skrulls in INCOMING! #1. Backed by his Kree/Skrull heritage, Hulkling united the two races against a common threat. Their first order of business as an alliance: to conquer their most ancient enemy, the plant-like race known as the Cotati. The Cotati had carefully laid plans to eliminate all animal life, starting with the inhabitants of Earth. The Alliance’s war fleet caught the attention of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, who then sought a diplomatic solution in space. But a battle erupted between the Wakandans and the Cotati on Earth, as the Cotati sought Wakanda’s Vibranium-rich soil to accomplish their goals. At the same time, Hulkling’s fiancé, Wiccan, had his own reasons to take down the Cotati! What will all this fighting and division mean for the newly married Billy and Teddy? [RELATED: Crash Course to ‘Empyre’]

