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Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor and producer who made his acting debut as a child in an episode of the Spanish television series El Pícaro (1974). Bardem made his feature film debut with a minor role in the 1990 Spanish erotic film The Ages of Lulu. The film's director, Bigas Luna, was impressed by Bardem, giving him his first leading role in the romantic-comedy Jamón jamón (1992), alongside future wife Penélope Cruz. In 1993, Bardem starred in another Luna film, Golden Balls, and in the Vicente Aranda-directed The Bilingual Lover. The following year he appeared in Días contados and The Detective and Death. For both films, he was nominated at the San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor.