Antonio Banderas Spanish Actor Born 1960 in Málaga

Antonio Banderas (10 August 1960, Málaga) is a Spanish actor. His best-known titles on this site are Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Philadelphia (1993).

Early life

His education includes Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Málaga.

Career

His screen career on record begins in 1982 with Labyrinth of Passion. The 1990s brought Desperado (1995) and The 13th Warrior (1999, as Ahmad ibn Fadlan). His 2000s credits include Frida (2002, as David Alfaro Siqueiros) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003, as El Mariachi). During the 2010s, he worked on The Expendables 3 (2014) and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015). Work from the 2020s includes Uncharted (2022, as Moncada) and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023, as Renaldo).

Antonio Banderas’s credits add up to 101 films and 4 TV series from 1982 to 2026. Drama is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (18), followed by action (13) and comedy (10). His credits run up to Tony in 2026. Of his six titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Uncharted (2022) has the highest, at $231 million. Behind the camera, he is listed as director on Crazy in Alabama and Summer Rain.

Salma Hayek appears in six of his listed titles, including Four Rooms (1995) and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Sylvester Stallone (three titles) and Rossy de Palma (three titles). Robert Rodriguez directed seven of his titles on record, among them Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011). Pedro Almodóvar is credited as director on six of them, including Law of Desire (1987) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).

Recognition

Antonio Banderas’s wins include the star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, awarded in 2005. The list of wins also includes the European Film Award for Best Actor (2019) for Pain and Glory and an award at the Goya Awards (2020) for Pain and Glory. A nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2020 for Pain and Glory is also listed. In total, he has won 16 awards and earned 6 nominations.

Personal life

Former marriages on record are to Ana Leza (1987 to 1996) and Melanie Griffith (1996 to 2015). He has one child on record.