Antonio Banderas is a Spanish actor, director, producer, and singer. He has received multiple awards and nominations, along with a Cannes Best Actor Award as well as a European Film Award for Best Actor, as well as Tony, Academy, and Primetime Emmy nods and five Golden Globe nominations.
In the 1980s, Banderas started his career as an actor inside a series of movies directed by Pedro Almodóvar; he went on to star in movies including Philadelphia, Interview well with Vampire, Desperado, Assassins, Evita, and The Mask of Zorro. He also voiced Puss in Boots inside the Shrek franchise as well as its spin-off Puss in Boots. Banderas made his Broadway debut in 2003 as Guido Contini in Nine, about which he received a Tony Award nomination as well as a Drama Desk Award. For his parts inside the television movie And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) as well as the second season of Genius (2018), he got Primetime Emmy Award nominations; his depiction of Pablo Picasso in the latter gained critical acclaim.
He won the Cannes Film Festival Award, European Film Award, and Goya Award for Best Actor for such 2019 movie Pain and Glory, and he was nominated for the Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Banderas began his acting career in Málaga’s School of Dramatic Art, where he made his stage debut inside a modest theatre. Throughout his career, Banderas has garnered several nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Pain and Glory. He was also nominated for five Golden Globe Awards for his performance in cinema and television. He’s also been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the television shows And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) and Genius: Picasso (2006).
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