Antonio Banderas is a Spanish actor and filmmaker who has appeared in various film, television, and theatre productions.
Banderas is known for his numerous collaborations with director Pedro Almodóvar acting in Labyrinth of Passion (1982), Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), The Skin I Live In (2011), and Pain and Glory (2019), the later of which earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1992, Banderas made his American film debut with the musical drama The Mambo Kings (1992), followed by roles in Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Assassins (1995), and Evita (1996). He portrayed Zorro in The Mask of Zorro (1998), and The Legend of Zorro (2005). He has starred in the franchise films, including as the patriarch in the Spy Kids series (2001–2003) and as the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek films (2004–present).
On stage, Banderas made Broadway debut as Guido Contini in Nine (2003), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He has also starred and directed productions of the musicals A Chorus Line (2019) and Company (2021). On television he portrayed Benito Mussolini in the miniseries Benito (1993) and received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Pancho Villa in the HBO film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) and Pablo Picasso in the anthology series Genius (2018).
Film As actor Year Title Role Director(s) Notes Ref.1982 Pestañas postizas Antonio Juan Enrique Belloch Labyrinth of Passion Sadec Pedro Almodóvar 1983 Y del seguro... líbranos Señor! Pipi Antonio del Real 1984 El caso Almería Juan Luque Pedro Costa Musté El señor Galíndez Eduardo Rodolfo Kuhn Los zancos (The Stilts) AlbertoCarlos Saura 1985 Requiem for a Spanish Peasant PacoFrancesc Betriu La corte de Faraón (The Court of the Pharaoh) Fray JoséJosé Luis García Sánchez Caso cerrado GasofaJuan Caño Arecha 1986Puzzle AndrésLluís Josep Comerón Matador ÁngelPedro Almodóvar 27 horas Rafa Montxo Armendáriz Delirios de amor Amante de Jaime Cristina Andreu CuevasSegment: "Delirio 3" 1987 Law of Desire Antonio BenítezPedro Almodóvar Así como habían sido Damián Andrés Linares 1988Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown CarlosPedro Almodóvar El placer de matar LuisFélix Rotaeta Baton Rouge Antonio Rafael Moleón 1989 Bajarse al moro AlbertoFernando Colomo If They Tell You I Fell MarcosVicente Aranda La blanca paloma MarioJuan Miñón Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! RickyPedro Almodóvar El Acto CarlosHéctor Fáver 1990Contra el viento (Against the Wind) JuanPaco Periñán 1991 Terra Nova AntonioCalogero Salvo 1992 Una mujer bajo la lluvia (A Woman in the Rain) MiguelGerardo Vera The Mambo Kings Néstor CastilloArne Glimcher 1993 ¡Dispara! MarcosCarlos Saura The House of the Spirits Pedro Tercero GarcíaBille August Philadelphia Miguel ÁlvarezJonathan Demme 1994 Of Love and Shadows FranciscoBetty Kaplan Interview with the VampireArmandNeil Jordan 1995 Miami Rhapsody AntonioDavid Frankel Desperado Manito "El Mariachi"Robert Rodriguez Four Rooms Man Segment: "The Misbehavers" Assassins Miguel BainRichard Donner Never Talk to Strangers Tony RamirezPeter Hall Two Much Art DodgeFernando Trueba 1996 Evita ChéAlan Parker 1998 Alejandro Murrieta/ZorroMartin Campbell 1999 Ahmad ibn FadlanJohn McTiernan The White River Kid Morales PittmanArne Glimcher Play It to the Bone César DomínguezRon Shelton 2001 Father Matt GutiérrezJonas McCord Spy Kids Gregorio "Greg" CortezRobert Rodriguez Original Sin Luís VargastMichael Cristofer 2002 Femme Fatale Nicolas BardoBrian De Palma Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever Jeremiah EcksKaos Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams Gregorio "Greg" CortezRobert Rodriguez FridaDavid Alfaro SiqueirosJulie Taymor 2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Gregorio "Greg" CortezRobert Rodriguez Cameo Once Upon a Time in Mexico El Mariachi Imagining Argentina Carlos RuedaChristopher Hampton 2004Shrek 2Puss in Boots Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, & Conrad Vernon Voice Far Far Away IdolSimon J. SmithShort film 2005 The Legend of Zorro Don Alejandro de la Vega/ZorroMartin Campbell 2006 Take the LeadPierre DulaineLiz Friedlander 2007 Bordertown Alfonso DíazGregory Nava Shrek the Third Puss in Boots Chris Miller Voice 2008 My Mom's New Boyfriend Tommy Lucero / Tomas MartinezGeorge Gallo The Other Man RalphRichard Eyre 2009 Thick as Thieves Gabriel MartinMimi Leder Direct to-DVD 2010 Shrek Forever AfterPuss in Boots Mike Mitchell Voice You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Greg ClementeWoody Allen 2011 The Big Bang Ned CruzTony Krantz Black Gold Emir NesibJean-Jacques Annaud The Skin I Live In Dr. Robert LedgardPedro Almodóvar Puss in BootsPuss in Boots Chris Miller Voice 2012 Haywire RodrigoSteven Soderbergh Puss in Boots: The Three DiablosPuss in Boots Raman Hui Voice; Short film Ruby Sparks MortJonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris 2013 I'm So ExcitedLéonPedro AlmodóvarCameo Machete KillsGregorio "Greg" CortezRobert Rodriguez Justin and the Knights of Valour Sir Clorex (voice)Manuel Sicilia Also producer 2014 Autómata Jacq VaucanGabe Ibáñez The Expendables 3 GalgoPatrick Hughes 2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Burger BeardPaul Tibbitt Knight of Cups TonioTerrence Malick The 33 Mario SepúlvedaPatricia Riggen 2016 AltamiraMarcelino Sanz de SautuolaHugh Hudson 2017 Black Butterfly PaulBrian Goodman Gun Shy Turk EnrySimon West Security Eduardo "Eddie" DeaconAlain DesRochers Acts of Vengeance Frank ValeraIsaac Florentine Bullet Head BluePaul Solet The Music of Silence The MaestroMichael Radford 2018 Beyond the Edge GordonAleksandr Boguslavskiy & Francesco Cinquemani Life Itself Mr. SaccioneDan Fogelman 2019 Pain and Glory Salvador Mallo Pedro Almodóvar The Laundromat Ramón Fonseca Steven Soderbergh 2020 Dolittle Rassouli Stephen Gaghan 2021 Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard Aristotle Papadopoulos Patrick Hughes Official Competition Félix Rivero Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn 2022 Uncharted Santiago Moncada Ruben Fleischer Code Name Banshee Caleb Jon Keeyes The Enforcer Cuda Richard Hughes Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Puss in Boots Joel Crawford Voice 2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Renaldo James Mangold Journey to Bethlehem Herod Adam Anders 2024 Cult Killer Mikhail Tellini Jon Keeyes The Clean Up Crew Gabriel Jon Keeyes Babygirl Jacob Halina Reijn Paddington in Peru Hunter Cabot Dougal Wilson 2026 Above & Below Burns Jesse V. Johnson Tony Ciro Matt Johnson Up Against It Álvaro Trudie Styler
As director Year Title 1999 Crazy in Alabama 2006 Summer Rain
Television Year Title Role Notes Ref 1984Fragmentos de interiorJoaquín4 episodes 1990La Mujer de tu vidaAntonioEpisode: "La mujer feliz" La otra historia de Rosendo JuárezRosendo Juárez Television film 1993 Benito Benito Mussolini Miniseries; 3 episodes 2003 And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself Pancho Villa Television film 2006 Saturday Night Live Himself (host) Episode: "Antonio Banderas/Mary J. Blige" 2007 Shrek the Halls Puss in Boots Voice; Television special 2010 Scared Shrekless 2018 Genius Pablo Picasso Lead role; Season 2
Theatre Year Title Role Director Venue Ref 2003 Nine Guido Contini David Leveaux Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway 2019 A Chorus Line Zach Antonio Banderas Teatro del Soho, Spain 2021 Company Bobby
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