Happy Birthday, Javier Bardem! His 5 Best Roles

This big hunk of a Spanish man turns 43 today! With a career that just keeps getting better (we can’t wait for his turn as a Bond villain in Skyfall later this year!) and a lovely wife (Penelope Cruz) and son (Leo), it looks like life is better than ever for the actor. Here, we look back at his best roles as we wait for more to come.

Happy Birthday, Javier! 

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No Country for Old Men

Where to begin but his Academy Award-winning role as the intensely creepy Anton Chigurh? In No Country for Old Men, Javier earned every inch of his Best Supporting Actor Oscar as a seemingly un-killable killer who wields a cow stun gun as his weapon of choice and speaks in philosophical riddles that would send a chill up Satan’s spine. Javier simply created a villain for the ages.