List of Antonio Banderas performances explained

Antonio Banderas is a Spanish actor and filmmaker who has appeared in various film, television, and theatre productions.

Banderas is known for his numerous collaborations with director Pedro Almodóvar acting in Labyrinth of Passion (1982), Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), The Skin I Live In (2011), and Pain and Glory (2019), the later of which earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1992, Banderas made his American film debut with the musical drama The Mambo Kings (1992), followed by roles in Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Assassins (1995), and Evita (1996). He portrayed Zorro in The Mask of Zorro (1998), and The Legend of Zorro (2005). He has starred in the franchise films, including as the patriarch in the Spy Kids series (2001–2003) and as the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek films (2004–present).

On stage, Banderas made Broadway debut as Guido Contini in Nine (2003), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He has also starred and directed productions of the musicals A Chorus Line (2019) and Company (2021). On television he portrayed Benito Mussolini in the miniseries Benito (1993) and received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Pancho Villa in the HBO film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2004) and Pablo Picasso in the anthology series Genius: Picasso (2018).

Film

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	class=unsortable	Ref.
1982	Pestañas postizas	Antonio Juan	Enrique Belloch		^[1]
	Labyrinth of Passion	Sadec			^[2]
1983	Y del seguro... líbranos Señor!	Pipi			^[3]
1984	El caso Almería	Juan Luque	Pedro Costa Musté
	El señor Galíndez	Eduardo	Rodolfo Kuhn
	Los zancos (The Stilts)	Alberto	Carlos Saura		^[4]
1985	Requiem for a Spanish Peasant	Paco	Francesc Betriu
	La corte de Faraón (The Court of the Pharaoh)	Fray José	José Luis García Sánchez		^[5]
	Caso cerrado	Preso	Juan Caño Arecha
1986	Puzzle	Andrés	Lluís Josep Comerón
	Matador	Ángel	Pedro Almodóvar
	27 horas	Rafa	Montxo Armendáriz
	Delirios de amor	Amante de Jaime	Cristina Andreu Cuevas	Segment: "Delirio 3"
1987	Law of Desire	Antonio Benítez	Pedro Almodóvar
	Así como habían sido	Damián	Andrés Linares
1988	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Carlos	Pedro Almodóvar
	El placer de matar	Luis	Félix Rotaeta
	Baton Rouge	Antonio	Rafael Moleón		^[6]
1989	Bajarse al moro	Alberto	Fernando Colomo
	If They Tell You I Fell	Marcos	Vicente Aranda
	La blanca paloma	Mario	Juan Miñón		^[7]
	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Ricky	Pedro Almodóvar		^[8]
	El Acto	Carlos	Héctor Fáver
1990	Contra el viento (Against the Wind)	Juan	Paco Periñán		^[9]
1991	Terra Nova	Antonio	Calogero Salvo
1992	Una mujer bajo la lluvia (A Woman in the Rain)	Miguel	Gerardo Vera		^[10]
	The Mambo Kings	Néstor Castillo	Arne Glimcher		^[11]
1993	¡Dispara!	Marcos	Carlos Saura
	The House of the Spirits	Pedro Tercero García	Bille August
	Philadelphia	Miguel Álvarez	Jonathan Demme		^[12]
1994	Of Love and Shadows	Francisco	Betty Kaplan
	Interview with the Vampire	Armand	Neil Jordan		^[13]
1995	Miami Rhapsody	Antonio	David Frankel
	Desperado	El Mariachi (Manito)	Robert Rodriguez		^[14]
	Four Rooms	Man		Segment: "The Misbehavers"
	Assassins	Miguel Bain	Richard Donner		^[15]
	Never Talk to Strangers	Tony Ramirez	Peter Hall
	Two Much	Art Dodge	Fernando Trueba
1996	Evita	Ché	Alan Parker		^[16]
1998		Alejandro Murrieta/Zorro	Martin Campbell		^[17]
1999		Ahmad ibn Fadlan	John McTiernan
	The White River Kid	Morales Pittman	Arne Glimcher
	Play It to the Bone	César Domínguez	Ron Shelton
2001		Father Matt Gutiérrez	Jonas McCord
	Spy Kids	Gregorio "Greg" Cortez	Robert Rodriguez
	Original Sin	Luís Vargast	Michael Cristofer
2002	Femme Fatale	Nicolas Bardo	Brian De Palma
		Jeremiah Ecks	Kaos
		Gregorio "Greg" Cortez	Robert Rodriguez		^[18]
	Frida	David Alfaro Siqueiros	Julie Taymor
2003		Gregorio "Greg" Cortez	Robert Rodriguez	Cameo
	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	El Mariachi
	Imagining Argentina	Carlos Rueda	Christopher Hampton
2004	Shrek 2		Andrew Adamson Kelly Asbury Conrad Vernon	Voice	^[19]
	Far Far Away Idol		Simon J. Smith	Short film
2005	The Legend of Zorro	Don Alejandro de la Vega/Zorro	Martin Campbell
2006	Take the Lead	Pierre Dulaine			^[20]
2007	Bordertown	Alfonso Díaz	Gregory Nava
	Shrek the Third	Puss in Boots		Voice	^[21]
2008	My Mom's New Boyfriend	Tommy Lucero / Tomas Martinez	George Gallo
	The Other Man	Ralph	Richard Eyre
2009	Thick as Thieves	Gabriel Martin	Mimi Leder	Direct to-DVD
2010	Shrek Forever After	Puss in Boots		Voice
	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Greg Clemente	Woody Allen
2011	The Big Bang	Ned Cruz	Tony Krantz
	Day of the Falcon	Emir Nesib	Jean-Jacques Annaud
	The Skin I Live In	Dr. Robert Ledgard	Pedro Almodóvar		^[22]
	Puss in Boots	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller	Voice	^[23]
2012	Haywire	Rodrigo	Steven Soderbergh
		Puss in Boots	Raman Hui	Voice; Short film
	Ruby Sparks	Mort	Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris
2013	I'm So Excited	Léon	Pedro Almodóvar	Cameo
	Machete Kills	Gregorio "Greg" Cortez	Robert Rodriguez
	Justin and the Knights of Valour	Sir Clorex (voice)	Manuel Sicilia	Also producer
2014	Autómata	Jacq Vaucan	Gabe Ibáñez
	The Expendables 3	Galgo	Patrick Hughes
2015		Burger Beard	Paul Tibbitt
	Knight of Cups	Tonio	Terrence Malick
	The 33	Mario Sepúlveda	Patricia Riggen
2016	Altamira	Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola	Hugh Hudson
2017	Black Butterfly	Paul	Brian Goodman
	Gun Shy	Turk Enry	Simon West		^[24]
	Security	Eduardo "Eddie" Deacon	Alain DesRochers
	Acts of Vengeance	Frank Valera	Isaac Florentine
	Bullet Head	Blue	Paul Solet
	The Music of Silence	The Maestro	Michael Radford
2018	Beyond the Edge	Gordon	Aleksandr Boguslavskiy Francesco Cinquemani
	Life Itself	Mr. Saccione	Dan Fogelman
2019	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo	Pedro Almodóvar		^[25]
	The Laundromat		Steven Soderbergh
2020	Dolittle	Rassouli
2021	Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard	Aristotle Papadopoulos	Patrick Hughes		^[26]
	Official Competition	Félix Rivero			^[27]
2022	Uncharted	Santiago Moncada			^[28]
	Code Name Banshee	Caleb			^[29]
	The Enforcer	Cuda	Richard Hughes		^[30]
		Puss in Boots	Joel Crawford	Voice	^[31]
2023	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny	Renaldo			^[32]
	Journey to Bethlehem				^[33]
2024	Cult Killer	Mikhail Tellini	Jon Keeyes		^[34]
	The Clean Up Crew	Gabriel		^[35]
	Paddington in Peru	Hunter Cabot		Post-production	^[36]
	Babygirl				^[37]
2026	Shrek 5	Puss in Boots		Voice; In production
	The Monster of Florence			In Production	^[38]

As director

Year	Title
1999	Crazy in Alabama
2006	Summer Rain

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	class=unsortable	Ref
1984	Fragmentos de interior	Joaquín	4 episodes
1990	La Mujer de tu vida	Antonio	Episode: "La mujer feliz"
	La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez	Rosendo Juárez	Television film
1993	Benito: The Rise and Fall of Italy		RTVE Miniseries; 3 episodes	^[39]
2003	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself		HBO Television film	^[40]
2006	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Antonio Banderas/Mary J. Blige"	^[41]
2007	Shrek the Halls	Puss in Boots	Voice; Television special	^[42]
2010	Scared Shrekless			^[43]
2018	Genius: Picasso		10 episodes	^[44]

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Director	Venue	class=unsortable	Ref
2003	Nine	Guido Contini		Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway	^[45]
2019	A Chorus Line	Zach		Teatro del Soho, Spain	^[46]
2021	Company	Bobby	Antonio Banderas		^[47]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Antonio Banderas. June 5, 2024. IMDB.
2. Book: D'Lugo . Marvin . Vernon . Kathleen M. . A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar . . 22 April 2013 . 57 . 9781405195829.
3. Book: Oliva, Ana . Antonio Banderas . . 2003 . 143 . 9788466610926.
4. Book: D'Lugo, Marvin. The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing. 188. 1991. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 0-691-03142-8.
5. Book: Schwartz, Ronald. Great Spanish Films Since 1950. 89. 2008. The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Lanham. 978-0-8108-5405-5.
6. Book: Torres, Augusto M.. Directores españoles malditos. 242. 2004. Huerga & Fierro editores. Madrid. 84-8374-480-5.
7. Book: Benavent, Francisco María. Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. 2000. 84-271-2326-4. Bilbao. Ediciones Mensajero. 119.
8. Web site: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. MUBI. June 5, 2024.
9. Book: Slide, Anthony. 66. Actors and Actresses. International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. 3. 4th. Anthony Slide. St. James Press. Tom. Pendergast. Sara. 2000. 1-55862-452-X. Pendergast. Banderas, Antonio.
10. Book: Bardzinska, Joanna. https://books.google.com/books?id=P6BxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA121. La vida en un hilo, de Edgar Neville. El camino inverso: del cine al teatro: La vida en un hilo, de Edgar Neville y Mi adorado Juan, de Miguel Mihura. 2014. The Modern Humanities Research Association. 978-1-78188-006-7. 121.
11. Web site: The Mambo Kings movie review. Rogerebert.com. June 5, 2024.
12. Web site: Philadelphia. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
13. Web site: Interview with the Vampire. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
14. Web site: Desperado. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
15. Web site: Assassins. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
16. Web site: Evita. TV Guide. June 5, 2024.
17. Web site: The Mask of Zorro. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
18. Web site: Review of Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams. IGN. 6 August 2002. June 5, 2024.
19. Web site: Antonio Banderas talks ZORRO 2 and SHREK 2!. MovieWeb. 29 August 2003. June 5, 2024.
20. Web site: "Take the Lead's' Banderas finds dance makes the human connection. The Morning Call. 6 April 2006. June 5, 2024.
21. Web site: Ogre and ogre again. Rogerebert.com. June 5, 2024.
22. Web site: A glossy, smooth, luxurious, snaky horror film. Rogerebert.com. June 5, 2024.
23. News: A Fairy Tale Mix With 9 Lives and Dozens of Egg Jokes. The New York Times. 27 October 2011. June 5, 2024. Holden. Stephen.
24. Web site: Saban Films Acquires Simon West's 'Gun Shy' Starring Antonio Banderas. Deadline. 8 June 2017. 8 June 2017.
25. News: Pain and Glory – bittersweet perfection from Pedro Almodóvar. The Guardian. 25 August 2019. June 5, 2024. Kermode. Mark. Critic. Observer Film.
26. Web site: The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard Cast & Character Guide. ScreenRant. 16 June 2021. June 5, 2024.
27. Web site: 'Official Competition' Review: Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas Let Loose in an Extremely Inside-Baseball Arthouse Satire. Variety. 5 September 2021. June 5, 2024.
28. Web site: 'Uncharted' star Antonio Banderas weighs in on the video game movie curse (exclusive). Yahoo News. 9 February 2022. June 5, 2024.
29. Web site: A Review Of Code Name Banshee. The A.V. Club. July 2022. June 5, 2024.
30. Web site: 'The Enforcer' Review: Antonio Banderas Plays a Hitman-Turned-Hero in This Routine Crime Meller. Variety. 22 September 2022. June 5, 2024.
31. Web site: Antonio Banderas Talks Celebrating Life In 'Puss In Boots: His Last Wish'. Forbes. June 5, 2024.
32. Web site: Lovett . Jamie . Indiana Jones 5 Wraps Filming . Comicbook.com . February 27, 2022 . February 27, 2022.
33. Watch Antonio Banderas as the Wicked Herod Singing 'Good to Be King' in 'Journey to Bethlehem' Film: Exclusive. Billboard. June 5, 2024.
34. Web site: Antonio Banderas and Alice Eve Hunt the 'Cult Killer' in the Grisly New Trailer [Exclusive]]. Collider. 20 December 2023. 20 December 2023. Ryan. O'Rourke.
35. Web site: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Melissa Leo & Antonio Banderas Join Yale Entertainment's 'Clean Up Crew'. Deadline Hollywood. 8 August 2022. June 5, 2024.
36. Web site: 'Paddington in Peru': Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman, Rachel Zegler, Emily Mortimer in Talks to Join Cast. Variety. 23 June 2023. June 5, 2024.
37. Web site: Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas Join A24's Erotic Thriller 'Babygirl'. Variety. 21 November 2023. June 5, 2024.
38. Web site: Antonio Banderas To Star In Italian Drama Series 'The Monster Of Florence' In The Works With Studiocanal. Deadline Hollywood. 28 June 2021. June 5, 2024.
39. Web site: Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
40. Web site: And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
41. Web site: Antonio Banderas/Mary J. Blige. IMDB. June 5, 2024.
42. Web site: Shrek the Halls. Rotten Tomatoes. June 5, 2024.
43. Web site: Scared Shreckless. TV Guide. June 5, 2024.
44. Antonio Banderas será Picasso en la segunda temporada de 'Genius' . 2017 . 7 May 2018 . . es . Hearst España.
45. Web site: Nine (Broadway, 2003). Playbill. June 5, 2024.
46. Web site: Watch Highlights of Antonio Banderas in the Spanish-Language A Chorus Line. Playbill. June 5, 2024.
47. Web site: Get a First Look at the Antonio Banderas-Led Company. Playbill. June 5, 2024.