Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. Known for his roles in blockbusters and foreign films, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers’ modern western drama film No Country for Old Men (2007).
Bardem has been nominated for three additional Academy Awards, Julian Schnabel’s Before Night Falls (2000), Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful (2010), and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos (2021). Bardem is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Actor for Before Night Falls in 2001) as well as the first, and to date, only Spanish actor to win one (Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men in 2008).
What religion is Javier Bardem? Is Javier Bardem an atheist?
Javier Bardem was raised Catholic but is now an atheist. Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Spain in 2005, Bardem stated that if he were gay, he would get married “right away tomorrow, just to fuck with the Church” Bardem has later said that while he does not believe strongly in the supernatural, Bardem does not deny it. “We are just this little tiny spot in the whole universe, so of course, there must be other things, other people, other creatures, other lives, and other dimensions.
