Antonio Banderas is a Spanish actor who began on a small stage in Málaga, where the director Pedro Almodóvar noticed him and gave him his film debut in Labyrinth of Passion in 1982. They made eight films together, among them Matador, Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Skin I Live In and Pain and Glory, the last of which won him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination. His American career includes The Mambo Kings, Philadelphia, Interview with the Vampire and Evita, and franchise roles as El Mariachi, Zorro and the voice of Puss in Boots. On stage he was nominated for a Tony Award for Nine, and as a director he made Crazy in Alabama in 1999 and Summer Rain in 2006.
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(born 10 August 1960), known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor.
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is a Spanish actor
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Pain and Glory (2019), the last of which earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor
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José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), known professionally as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor.
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He made his directorial debut with the comedy film Crazy in Alabama (1999), followed by Summer Rain (2006).
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