Age: 65
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José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor and singer. Known for his work in films of several genres, he has received various accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award and a European Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. Banderas made his film debut in Pedro Almodóvar's screwball comedy Labyrinth of Passion (1982). They've since collaborated together on many films including Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), and The Skin I Live In (2011). For the 2019 film Pain and Glory, Banderas earned various accolades for Best Actor including the Cannes Film Festival Award, Goya Award, and as well as nominations from the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He's also known for several Hollywood films, such as Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Desperado (1995), Assassins (1995), Evita (1996), and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He also appeared in the first three films of the Spy Kids series (2001-2003) and provided the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise (2004–present) and its spin-off films Puss in Boots (2011) and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022). In 2003, Banderas made his US theatre debut as Guido Contini in Nine, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award. He received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles in the television film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) and the second season of Genius (2018); his portrayal of Pablo Picasso in the latter garnered him critical praise.
Antonio Banderas
Bishop Rodrigo
for Bishop Rodrigo in La Estrella de Al-Andalus
Suggested by mr95
He was raised in the Umayyad Caliphate's most magnificent court. His arrangement in marriage to a Castilian noblewoman will require him to cross every border he knows. Set in Córdoba at the height of the Umayyad Caliphate of Al-Andalus (~970 AD) — arguably the most culturally advanced civilization in Western Europe at the time, a city of libraries, physicians, poets, and architectural wonders — La Estrella de Al-Andalus follows Mansur ibn Tariq, 27, a Black man raised in the court of Caliph Al-Hakam II as a royal ward and eventual court diplomat. His full name reflects his complete identity within Andalusian Islamic culture: he speaks Arabic and the Romance vernacular, participates in the extraordinary intellectual life of the Córdoba court, and is one of the Caliph's most trusted diplomatic voices for relations with the Christian kingdoms of the north. When a treaty with the Kingdom of León requires a diplomatic marriage, Mansur is sent north with a proposal — and finds himself arranging not another man's marriage but his own, to Inés de León, a Leonese princess who has been educated in the unusual tradition of her learned grandmother and approaches the cross-cultural marriage with curiosity rather than dread. Two seasons track their marriage across the cultural boundary between Al-Andalus and Christian Iberia. S1E1 — La Biblioteca (The Library) Córdoba in its full magnificence. Mansur in the Caliphal library. The diplomatic mission north announced. S1E6 — El Primer Invierno (The First Winter) Mansur in León. His first winter in the Christian north. Inés showing him her Arabic manuscripts. Their first genuine conversation. S2E12 — Dos Mundos (Two Worlds) Series finale: The treaty secured. Both cultural worlds transformed by the marriage between them. Mansur and Inés in Córdoba together — she in the library.
