Carlos Encinas Bardem was born in
Madrid on 7 March 1963. co-helmed by his cousin
Miguel Bardem. A year later, he played a part in
Álex de la Iglesia's film
Perdita Durango, which starred his brother Javier. '' at the 2021
Málaga Film Festival He won an
Actors and Actresses Union Award for Best New Actor for his performance in the Spanish-Mexican co-production
La zona (2007). His portrayal of Apache in
Cell 211 (2009) earned him a nomination for the
Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2010, he began a relationship with
Cecilia Gessa. Bardem adapted alongside
Santiago Zannou his own novel about the genesis of violence
Alacrán enamorado to screen. He also featured in the film, titled
Scorpion in Love (2013), as a boxing coach, and won nominations to the Goya both for Best Adapted Screenplay and for Best Supporting Performance. In 2015, he appeared in
Manolo Caro's comedy ''
Elvira I Will Give You My Life But I'm Using It'' playing Gustavo, the husband of
Cecilia Suárez's lead character Elvira. Continuing his work in Mexico, he played a
football agent in comedy-drama series
Club de Cuervos, which debuted on Netflix in 2015. Bardem played the part of Benedicto, a mentor of the
Order of Assassins, in the action film ''
Assassin's Creed'' (2016). In 2018, he starred in Colombian crime film
Pickpockets in the role of Chucho, a mentor of young pickpockets. In 2019, Bardem published his sixth novel,
Mongo blanco (Plaza & Janés), which deals with 19th-century slave trader
Pedro Blanco. Bardem played the villainous Count Flaín of León, an antagonist to
Ruy Díaz de Vivar, in the Prime Video series
El Cid, set in 11th-century Iberia. He featured as the authoritarian father of in the former's autofictional series
Queer You Are (2021), in a role in which Bardem's face is not displayed onscreen. Resuming collaboration with Álex de la Iglesia, he played a "narco-satanic" cardinal in the HBO series
30 Coins. His 2023 novel
Badaq (Plaza & Janés) is a moral fable and criticism of the Spanish empire dealing with the plight of an Indonesian female
rhinoceros captured in the island of Pawu and taken to Madrid in the 16th century. == Views ==