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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish-American 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.
Javier Bardem
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for Poseidon in The Iliad & the Odyssey
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These two foundational epics of Western literature follow the greatest heroes of ancient Greece across decades of warfare, adventure, and divine intervention. The Iliad chronicles the brutal ten-year Trojan War, focusing on the mighty Achilles, noble Hector, and the armies clashing over Helen of Troy, while gods above take sides in the conflict. The Odyssey follows the cunning Odysseus as he struggles for another ten years to return home to Ithaca after Troy's fall, facing monsters, enchantresses, and the wrath of Poseidon, while his faithful wife Penelope fends off suitors and his son Telemachus searches for him. Both epics explore themes of honor, fate, mortality, and the cost of glory. Through vivid battle scenes, intimate character moments, and encounters with the supernatural—from the Cyclops to Circe to the Sirens—these tales establish archetypes of heroism, loyalty, and human struggle against impossible odds. Written in dactylic hexameter, they blend martial grandeur with emotional depth, creating timeless stories of war's devastation and the yearning for home that resonate across millennia.
