Javier Bardem
Bardem in 2011, photo by Pr Photos
Birth Name: Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem
Place of Birth: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Date of Birth: March 1, 1969
Ethnicity: Spanish [Castilian and Leónese], Basque, Catalan, as well as 1/64th British Isles [Irish, English]
Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2007). He has also starred in Jamón Jamón, Before Night Falls, The Dancer Upstairs, Biutiful, Skyfall, and Being the Ricardos, among many other acclaimed films.
Javier was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, the son of José Carlos Encinas Doussinague and actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz), who was known as “La Bardem.” Javier is married to actress Penélope Cruz, with whom he has two children. Javier is the brother of actors Carlos Cardem and Mónica Bardem. His uncle, Juan Antonio Bardem, was a film director and screenwriter.
One of his father’s surnames, Doussinague, is Basque. His mother’s surname, Bardem, is Catalan.
Javier’s paternal grandfather was named José Encinas. José was a farmer from Guijuelo, Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain.
Javier’s paternal grandmother was Flora Doussinague Brunet (the daughter of Juan Carlos Doussinague y Casares and Flora Waldesca Brunet y Goitia). Juan Carlos was the son of Pedro Doussinague y Adema and Francisca Casares Zabaleta. Javier’s great-grandmother Flora was the daughter of José María Brunet y Bermingham, who was of part Catalan, English, and Irish descent, and of María Magdalena Goitia Ostolaza.
Javier’s maternal grandfather was named Rafael Bardem Solé. Rafael was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, and was an actor.
Javier’s maternal grandmother was Matilde Muñoz Sampedro (the daughter of Miguel Muñoz Sanjuán and Catalina Sampedro Álvarez). Matilde was born in Madrid, and was an actress. Matilde’s sisters, Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro and Mercedes Muñoz Sampedro, were also actresses, as was Mercedes’s daughter, Carmen Lozano. Javier’s great-grandfather Miguel was the son of José Muñoz and Joaquina San Juan. Javier’s great-grandmother Catalina was the daughter of Manuel San Pedro and Josefa Álvarez.
Sources: http://www.elmundo.es
Genealogy of Javier’s father (focusing on his own mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Javier’s paternal great-grandmother, Flora Waldesca Brunet y Goitia (focusing on her father’s side) – https://gw.geneanet.org
Genealogy of Javier Bardem (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Javier’s Spanish ancestries are Castilian and Leonese. His other ancestries are Basque and Catalan.
Matilde was the daughter of Miguel Muñoz Sanjuán and Catalina Sampedro Álvarez.
Miguel was the son of José Muñoz and Joaquina San Juan. Catalina was the daughter of Manuel San Pedro and Josefa Álvarez.
Javier’s paternal grandparents were José Encinas and Flora Doussinague.
Flora’s maternal family name is Brunet, and was the daughter of Juan Carlos Doussinague y Casares and Flora Waldesca Brunet y Goitia. Juan Carlos was the son of Pedro Doussinague y Adema and Francisca Casares Zabaleta. Javier’s great-grandmother Flora was the daughter of José María Brunet y Bermingham, who was of part Catalan, English, and Irish descent, and of María Magdalena Goitia Ostolaza.
https://www.geni.com/people/Jos%C3%A9-Encinas-Doussinague/6000000071823650850?through=6000000020734689535
https://gw.geneanet.org/sanchiz?lang=en&p=flora&n=brunet+goitia
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=bo7156&id=I63785
* Carlos paternal grandfather was a farmer from Guijuelo, Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain (http://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/cronica/2008/646/1204412412.html)
* Rafael Bardem Solé was born in Barcelona
* Matilde Muñoz Sampedro was born in Madrid
Javier’s uncle, Juan Antonio Bardem, was a film director and screen writer. Javier’s brother Carlos Cardem is an actor, as his sister Mónica Bardem. Javier’s maternal grandmother’s sisters, Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro and Mercedes Muñoz Sampedro, were also both actresses, as Mercedes’s daughter, Carmen Lozano.
Nacido en el barrio de San Nicolás en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, hijo de José Carlos Encinas Doussinague de origen español y Pilar Bardem, Bardem desciende de una saga de actores: sus abuelos Rafael Bardem y Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, su madre Pilar de origen CUBANO y su hermano mayor Carlos son un ejemplo. – See more at: http://www.escuriosity.com/biografia.php?biografia=Javier-Bardem#sthash.EqhDJ0vp.dpuf
Yes, a Wiki-mirror, an exact copy of the Wikipedia article.
“Nacido en el barrio de San Nicolás en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, hijo de José Carlos Encinas Doussinague de origen español y Pilar Bardem, Bardem desciende de una saga de actores: sus abuelos Rafael Bardem y Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, su madre Pilar de origen cubano y su hermano mayor Carlos son un ejemplo” His mother has cuban origins https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Bardem
That’s a Wiki. Is there any reliable source?
His mother’s parents were both born in Spain.
source about being born in spain? it from spanish wikipedia, from spain
they know better than you about their people, he doesnt look average spaniard
Everybody always knows better than me, so that doesn’t make it a reliable source.
if is in spain wikipedia is probably because people from spain knows it
spain media
@ luckystar
How do you know how average Spaniard look? You’re Brazilian.
He looks like Jeffrey Dean Morgan. His brother Carlos Bardem looks pseudo-Asian.
Average spaniard are Atlanto med. When i was in Madrid mostly look like Jordi Mollà, Javier bardem is clearly mixed and atypical in Spain
I took it off Wikipedia, so I assume the matter is settled.
@ luckystar/Rainbowmini
those taxonomy classifications are all virtual. Btw according to old school anthropologists Iberia is the cradle of Ibero-Insular race (also called Gracile Mediterranean, in opposition to the variant Atlanto Med)
https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberoinsular
Javier Bardem’s maternal family is a well known Spanish family of actors, and his father was said to be a large man of 1,92×100 kg from a town near Salamanca. Not Cuban.
His father’s surname was Doussinague. That’s not a common surname in Spain, in fact doesn’t even sound spanish at all.
@madbadDog
Yes, it does not sound Spanish (Castillan) at all. It’s actually a rare Basque surname
http://euskalikurra.blogspot.it/2012/09/lista-de-apellidos-vascos-con-d.html?m=1
@Andrew truly rare cause I’m basque myself and I’ve never heard that surname before, it must be an aranism.
And btw, his mother Pilar Bardem has always been very “liberal”, rest assured that Javier and Carlos Bardem don’t share the same father!
@madbadDog
http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/45407
I believe Carlos and Javier share the same father, but their mother knows better than us. Check out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4137506.stm
Shouldn’t it be noted that he is Catalan? Bardem surname mothers side is catalan origin. Father side unknow but I always assume was Canarian
In No Country for Old Men he was very ethnically ambiguous, Spanish, Italian, and part Native American are all things that came to mind.
100% Spanish seems legit.