
Javier Cámara
Highest Rated: 99% Truman (2015)
Lowest Rated: 17% Alatriste (2006)
Birthday: Jan 19, 1967
Birthplace: Albelda de Iregua, Spain
To international audiences, Javier Cámara may be best known for his work in two films by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar during the 2000s: the dramas "Talk to Her" and "Bad Education." However, before then he was already an established actor in Spain's movie and television industry. Throughout the '90s, his career gradually evolved from supporting parts and theatrical roles to costarring in various series, culminating in the sitcom "7 vidas," in which he played the sexually frustrated youth Paco Gimeno Huete. The show aired from 1999 to 2006, and during this time, he also appeared in a string of acclaimed movies that drew international attention. In the '01 drama "Sex and Lucia" (which also featured his "7 vidas" costar Paz Vega), he played Pepe, a publisher and the main protagonist's friend who provides crucial information. However, his towering achievement during this time may have been portraying Benigno Martin, the nurse obsessed with a comatose dance student, in "Talk to Her." Although the character does something monstrous, it is partially thanks to Cámara's portrayal and Almodóvar's direction that he is not completely unredeemable. He cemented his reputation as a character actor unafraid of edgy material in "Bad Education" and "Torremolinos 73," in which he played a transsexual cabaret performer and a husband who makes pornographic films with his wife, respectively. Toward the end of the decade, he costarred as a leftist teacher hiding to protect his life in the costume drama "The Blind Sunflowers," set in 1940s Spain.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forgotten We'll Be | Héctor Abad Gómez (Character) | - | 2020 |
100% | No Score Yet | The People Upstairs | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perdiendo el este | Próspero (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 19% | Bomb Scared | Martín (Character) | - | 2017 |
60% | 15% | It's for Your Own Good | Chus (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Siete semillas | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Seeds | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
30% | 38% | The Queen of Spain | Pepe Bonilla (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Age Of Monster (El tiempo de los monstruos) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El cerdo | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Off Course | Próspero (Character) | - | 2015 |
99% | 79% | Truman | Tomás (Character) | $208.8K | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Age of Monsters | Víctor (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Ayer no termina nunca | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 25% | The Unexpected Life | Juanito (Character) | - | 2013 |
94% | 77% | Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed | Antonio (Character) | $11.6K | 2013 |
49% | 37% | I'm So Excited! | Joserra (Character) | $1.4M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 54% | A Gun in Each Hand | S. (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Needs Bears? | Guillermo (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Que se Mueran Los Feos | Eliseo (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Chef's Special | Maxi (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 48% | The Blind Sunflowers | Ricardo (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 67% | La Torre de Suso | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
17% | 47% | Alatriste | Conde Duque de Olivares (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Fiction (Ficcio) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Viva Pedro | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Malas Temporadas | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
69% | 86% | The Secret Life of Words | Simon (Character) | $20K | 2005 |
88% | 86% | Bad Education |
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$5.2M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | With George Bush on My Mind (Los Abajo firmantes) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
71% | 69% | Torremolinos 73 | Alfredo (Character) | $87.4K | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quiet Men | Screenwriter | - | 2002 |
91% | 93% | Talk to Her | Benigno (Character) | $9.3M | 2002 |
71% | 86% | Sex and Lucia | Pepe (Character) | $1.6M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Havana Quartet | Segis (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Torrente, the Wrong Arm of the Law | Rafi (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eso | Miguel Ángel (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Put a Man in Your Life | Miguel (Character) | - | 1996 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 81% | The New Pope | Monsignor Bernardo Alonso Gutierrez (Character) | 2020 |
79% | 87% | The Young Pope | Monsignor Bernardo Alonso Gutierrez (Character) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | FREE HBO: The New Pope | Monsignor Bernardo Alonso Gutierrez (Character) |
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