| Antonio Banderas  AKA Jose Antonio Dominguez Bandera
Born: 10-Aug-1960
Birthplace: Malaga, Spain
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: Spain
Executive summary: Feel the deadly poke of Zorro Antonio Banderas saw Hair on stage with his family when he was 15, and decided by intermission that he wanted to be an actor. He dropped out of high school, but later got an equivalency diploma. He was a struggling stage actor in Madrid for several years, and began appearing in Spanish movies in the early 1980s. He first came to Americans' attention in the bizarre art films of Pedro Almodóvar, including Matador, Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down. Hollywood came for Banderas, and he's worked primarily in English-language films since he was Tom Hanks' lover in Philadelphia and a bloodsucker in Interview with the Vampire. He played El Mariachi in the two big-budget sequels to the original El Mariachi. He was also Zorro in the listless Mark of Zorro and Zorro 2. He provided the voice of Puss In Boots in Shrek 2, and was moved to tears at the end of the film's premiere.
Father: Jose Dominguez (policeman, d. 2008)
Mother: Dona Ana Banderas (teacher)
Brother: Francisco Javiar Banderas ("Chico")
Wife: Ana Leza (actress, m. 1988, div. 1996)
Wife: Melanie Griffith (m. 14-May-1996, one daughter)
Daughter: Stella Banderas (b. 24-Sep-1996 in Marbella, Spain)
Daughter: Dakota Mayi Johnson (stepdaughter, b. 4-Oct-1989, dau. of Don Johnson)
University: School of Dramatic Art, Malaga, Spain
Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "It" List Ingenue
UNICEF
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Crazy in Alabama (4-Feb-1999)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Shrek the Third (17-May-2007) [VOICE]
Bordertown (18-May-2006)
Take the Lead (17-Mar-2006)
The Legend of Zorro (24-Oct-2005)
Shrek 2 (15-May-2004) [VOICE]
Imagining Argentina (12-Sep-2003)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (7-Sep-2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (27-Aug-2003)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (25-Jul-2003)
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (18-Sep-2002)
Frida (29-Aug-2002)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (7-Aug-2002)
Femme Fatale (30-Apr-2002)
Original Sin (11-Jul-2001)
Spy Kids (18-Mar-2001)
The Body (5-Jan-2001)
Play It to the Bone (25-Dec-1999)
The White River Kid (12-Nov-1999)
The 13th Warrior (25-Jun-1999)
The Mask of Zorro (17-Jul-1998)
Evita (20-Dec-1996)
Two Much (15-Mar-1996)
Never Talk to Strangers (20-Oct-1995)
Assassins (6-Oct-1995)
Four Rooms (16-Sep-1995)
Desperado (May-1995)
Miami Rhapsody (27-Jan-1995)
Interview with the Vampire (11-Nov-1994)
Of Love and Shadows (6-Oct-1994)
Philadelphia (23-Dec-1993)
The House of the Spirits (21-Oct-1993)
Outrage (1-Oct-1993)
The Mambo Kings (28-Feb-1992)
Madonna: Truth or Dare (10-May-1991) Himself
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (9-Feb-1990)
Going Down in Morocco (11-Apr-1989)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (23-Mar-1988)
Law of Desire (7-Feb-1987)
Matador (7-Mar-1986)
Labyrinth of Passion (29-Sep-1982)
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