Antonio banderas!
Real name Jose Antonio Dominguez Bandera
Birth 10 August 1960 (50)
Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
Couple Ana Leza (1988-1996)
Melanie Griffith (1996 -)
Chip on IMDb
[Show] Awards won
San Sebastian International Film Festival
2008 - Premio Donostia
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera [1] (born Manchester, August 10, 1960) is an actor, singer, dancer, photographer, producer and director of Spanish cinema, famous for his roles in movies like Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Evita, The Mask of Zorro, the sequel, The Legend of Zorro, Spy Kids trilogy and the saga of Shrek, and Puss in Boots. It was the first Spanish actor who managed to stabilize in the American film industry you work from the early nineties. He is married to fellow Hollywood star Melanie Griffith with whom he has a daughter, Stella del Carmen and together form one of the most stable couples of the cinema.
It is the first Spanish actor to be nominated for a Golden Globe, Tony Award and Emmy Awards and has worked with a vast array of characters standing in the industry, such as Pedro Almodovar, Robert Rodriguez, Salma Hayek, Tom Hanks , Denzel Washington, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Hopkins, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, among others.
[Edit] Biography [edit] PadresSu father]] (1920-2008 to 87) was police commissioner and his mother Ana Bandera, was school teacher.
[Edit] Week SantaSuele to see your family every year to the Holy Week, calls himself brother. He is a member of the Brotherhoods Fusionadas of San Juan, where he participated as a Steward of the Throne of Our Lady of Tears and Favors Palm Sunday, adding that he has composed the lyrics of Tears march of San Juan, Abel Moreno, March has been become a hymn to the Virgin of Tears and Favors and is sung by the Men's throne during the procession. It also carries on its shoulders the Virgen de la Esperanza every night of Holy Thursday and confessed believer. Has been appointed by the Association of Guilds of Holy Week in Malaga as the harbinger for 2011, giving the April 9, a moving, original and unique genius laden cry.
[Edit] CarreraNació on August 10, 1960 at number 30 Calle Sebastian Souvirón and when I was little studied in school El Divino Pastor. He was part of Theatre-School ARA led by Amparo Rubio-Argüelles in Malaga. [2] His vocation took him to Madrid, where he served 19 years in small theaters during the time of the Madrid scene. His start in film and his first successes were due to the film director Pedro Almodovar in the 80's, thanks to which he received two nominations for the Goya Awards for films Matador (1986) and Tie Me Up! (1989). Also the stage name of Antonio Banderas is due to a suggestion by Pedro Almodóvar. He made five movies with him, some of them very successful, as were The Law of Desire (1987) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign language film.
In 1992 he participated in the 60 th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber, performing The Phantom of the Opera, along with world-renowned soprano Sarah Brightman.
He also participated in the film directed by Jonathan Demme Philadelphia in 1993. It is worth mentioning that the film won 2 Oscars, one for Best Actor for Tom Hanks, and one for Best Original Song for Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen in 1994.
Thanks to the films of Almodovar, Antonio Banderas name first became popular in the circles moviegoers. An appearance in the documentary film Truth or Dare (In Bed with Madonna) Banderas launched to fame, as many wondered who that "Latin lover" who went crazy for Madonna and whom she could not seduce.
In 1988 he married Ana Leza, divorced in 1996. Later married to Melanie Griffith, whom he met during the filming of the movie Two Much Spanish director Fernando Trueba. The couple have a daughter, Stella del Carmen, and three reside in Hollywood, where the actor began a successful film career, gained positions in a few years, co-starring roles in The Mambo Kings, Interview with the Vampire (along Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise), Original Sin (Angelina Jolie) and Evita (with Madonna), where he boarded a musical role. He also sang a song in the soundtrack of Desperado and duet with Tina Turner.
He has also worked as director with films like Crazy in Alabama, which starred his wife, and the recent The Way of the English, whose shooting took place in Malaga.
Appointed Son of the province of Malaga on 7 June 2001.
In 2003, he returned to the musical genre, appearing with great success on Broadway in the revival of Maurey Yeston musical Nine, based on the film 8 ½, playing the role originally from Raul Julia. Banderas won the Outer Critics Circle Awards and Drama Desk, and was nominated for the Tony Award for best actor in a musical. His performance is preserved in the Broadway cast recording released by PS Classics.
A great lover of the Holy Week of Malaga, his homeland, in which actively participated in his youth, has been isolated for many years it due to his professional commitments. Since 2004 he promptly at the meeting you have with her and the Holders of the Brotherhood, the Royal Guilds Fusionadas of San Juan. Participating on Palm Sunday as Butler Mary Throne of Tears and Favors, Holy Wednesday as Butler Throne Exaltation of the Holy Christ and the Holy Thursday night as Man of the Throne with his peers at the Submarine Varal Mary Blessed Hope. Being honored by the latter for the statue to "Varal Companion" in its 2011 edition.
In 2007, with producer Antonio Perez, Banderas began a plan to promote films made by Andalusian participating in the production of a film a year. The first production result of this initiative is 3 days, led by Francisco Javier Gutierrez Cordoba.
In 2007, he returned to Chile, following the promotion of perfumes and with his wife, met with President Michelle Bachelet. During the visit apologized for errors in the film The House of the Spirits based on the novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, in Santiago de Chile appears covered with snow for Christmas (a time when it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere) .
On February 2, 2008, death of his father, Don José Domínguez Prieto, at the age of 87 years in Marbella, after a long illness.
In addition to his extensive acting career is also dedicated to creating their own perfumes under the seal of Antonio Banderas Fragrances with which it has won several awards for the best fragrance FIFI.
In 2008 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, he picked up on October 15 in La Coruna in a ceremony presided over by the Kings of Spain [3].
In 2009 it wanted to develop another of his passions, and introduced into the world of wine from Bodegas ANTA hand from that moment on became known as ANTA Banderas. The winery produces premium wines in the appellation of origin Ribera del Duero and intends to higher costs in the global wine scene.
On May 5, 2010 he was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Malaga.
