Antonio Banderas
(José Antonio Domínguez Banderas; Málaga, 1960) The son of a teacher and a policeman, Antonio Banderas showed from a young age a clear inclination for dramatic art, a discipline he studied in his city native.He worked with different theater companies for a few years until, after settling in Madrid, he decided to continue his artistic career in the capital.
There he combined his work in the theater with other outstanding performances on television that made the film industry notice him, beginning to play small roles in discreet productions.His interventions in the works Historia de los Tarantos and La hija del aire are the most notable, in addition to his participation in the mid-eighties in the assembly of Eduardo II of England , directed by Lluis Pasqual.
Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas took his first steps in the cinema hand in hand by Pedro Almodóvar, director enrolled in the so-called Madrid movida , who offered him the role of Sadec in Laberinto de pasiones (1982).Although the film is not among the best of its director, it served for the two to initiate an intense and interesting collaboration: he played a student from the bullfighting school in Matador (1985), a contradictory homosexual in The law of desire (1986) and consolidated its leading role in Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1987) and Tie me (1989), with two totally opposite roles.
Without a doubt, Antonio Banderas' relationship with Almodóvar was fundamental in his career, because after the good reception of the films by the La Mancha director, Banderas would become the object of critical and public attention, which they established a logical association between the two.
In addition to his work with Almodóvar, Banderas participated in other films that allowed him to learn the trade well and consolidated him in the Spanish art scene.During the eighties, his roles in La corte de faraón (1985), by José Luis García Sánchez; Baton Rouge (1988), by Rafael Moleón, and La blanca paloma (1989), by Juan Miñón.However, it was the international projection of her films with Almodóvar that served her as a business card in Hollywood; Thus, the singer Madonna requested the Malaga actor for her film In bed with Madonna (1991), directed by A.Keshishian.
The popularity that he was reaching and his confidence in himself led him to try to settle in the United States.At the age of thirty, Antonio Banderas knew how to gradually make his way through the complex framework of American cinema, a career that began as one of the protagonists of Los reyes del mambo play love songs (1991), by Arnold Glimcher.His role had originally been offered to Andy Garcia, but he turned it down.In film circles it was said that this decision influenced the careers of the two actors, because while that of the Cuban actor experienced a stagnation, that of the Spanish began a notorious rise in the field of Hispanic cinema.
However , Banderas' track record has been uneven in Hollywood.Notable among his filmography are Philadelphia (1993), directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks, which was a great success at the box office, and The Mask of the Fox (1998 ), by Martín Campbell, as well as important supporting roles with leading stars in films such as Interview with the vampire (1994), by Neil Jordan.Banderas also participated in productions that did not obtain the results expected of them, such as Two Much (1995), by Fernando Trueba, or The Body (2001), by Jonas McCord.
Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith
His physical appearance and accent (he often doubles himself) generally kept him typecast in a very characteristic type of roles: Latin, seductive and mysterious; An example was his interpretation in Desperado (1995), by Robert Rodríguez, where all the aforementioned aspects converge, which he assumed without complaint, trying to make his personal sympathy hide some technical deficiencies.
Banderas is the Spanish actor who most international renown has achieved; His presence at festivals and award ceremonies, including Oscars, is common, and among the directors he has worked with are prestigious names such as Carlos Saura, Richard Donner or Bille August, among others.His personality has even become a reference for many people, as shown by the fact that his image is also used by different advertising brands.
His undeniable ability to work and his desire to explore the different facets of his profession led him to direct Locos en Alabama (1999), presented at the Venice Film Festival and most highly rated by European criticism than by the American one.She has also participated in the production, with her company Green Moon, of other films such as The Body .In 2003 he made his debut on the Broadway stage as the lead in the musical Nine , based on the film Eight and a half , by Federico Fellini.
In 1988 he He married the Spanish Ana Leza, from whom he divorced in 1996.Since then he has had a romantic relationship with the actress Melanie Griffith, with whom he has a daughter in common.In May 2004, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him the Gold Medal in recognition of his work to disseminate Spanish culture.
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