Pilar Bardem is a Spanish

Spain

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 film

Film

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 and television

Television

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 actress.

Born María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz to performers Rafael Bardem

Rafael Bardem

Rafael Bardem Solé was a Spanish film actor whose career stretched from the 1940s through the 1960s.Born in Barcelona, he was the grandfather of Javier Bardem and father of Juan Antonio Bardem and actress Pilar Bardem...

 and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro in Seville

Seville

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, Bardem began her screen career in 1965. She was a regular in the television series Compuesta y sin novio (1994), Hermanas (1998), El Inquilino (2004), and Amar en tiempos revueltos (2005–2007).

Bardem is the recipient of the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress

Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress

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, the Premios ACE for Best Supporting Actress

Association of Latin Entertainment Critics

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, the Valladolid International Film Festival

Seminci

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 Award for Best Actress, and two Spanish Actors Union Awards for her performances. She is the mother of Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, and has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los...

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Activism

Pilar Bardem is often called "La Bardem", and is well-known in Spain not only as an actress, but for her outspoken political views. She has toiled for "labor rights for actors, civil rights for women", and "a more liberal Catholic Church" (she has affirmed a belief that women should be able to become priests). In 2003, she protested the support that (at that time) Spain's central government had of the American-devised War in Iraq and was ejected from the spectators' gallery in parliament. Bardem identifies her long struggle, working several jobs at once to raise her children, as not uncommon. She was just "one of so many".

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