• Name: Antonio Banderas
  
• Birth Name: Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas
  
• Height: 5' 9"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Spanish
  
• Birth Date: August 10, 1960
  
• Birth Place: Malaga, Spain
  
• Profession: actor, director, producer
  
• Education: School of Dramatic Art in Malaga, Spain
  
• Husband/Wife: Melanie Griffith (actress; born on August 9, 1957; met on set of Two Much in January 1995; married in London on May 14, 1996), Ana Leza (actress; married in 1988; separated in 1995; divorced in 1996)
  
• Father: State Department worker
  
• Mother: Teacher
  
• Brother: Francisco Banderas (economist; younger)
  
• Daughter: Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith (actress; born on September 24, 1996; mother: Melanie Griffith)
  
• Step son: Alexander Bauer (born in 1985; father: Steven Bauer)
  
• Step daughter: Dakota Mayi Johnson (born on October 4, 1989; father: Don Johnson)
  
• Claim to fame: as Nestor Castillo in The Mambo Kings (1992)
  

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• "Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover." [on his reputation]
• "I don't want anything I don't deserve, (but) if they offer me more money, I'm not a-stupid."
• "When I left my country I observed my country in a different way. I suddenly got an incredible love of everything. I suddenly loved Flamenco music but when I lived in Spain it was Elvis I admired. You take your culture for granted when you live there but when you move away you become much more interested and an expert in your own turf."

• Imagen Awards: Best Actor, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (2004)
• ALMA Awards: Anthony Quinn Award for Achievement in Motion Pictures (2002)
• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, SPY KIDS (2001)
• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film, THE 13TH WARRIOR (2000)
• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Director of a Feature Film, CRAZY IN ALABAMA (2000)
• ALMA Awards: Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film for The Mask of Zorro (1999)
• European Film Awards: Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema, CRAZY IN ALABAMA (1999)
• Imagen Foundation Awards: Lasting Image Award, THE MASK OF ZORRO (1999)
• European Film Awards: Best Actor,THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)
• Golden Apple Awards: Male Discovery of the Year (1995)
• Valladolid International Film Festival: Best Actor, LA BLANCA PALOMA (1990)
• Fotogramas de Plata: Best Movie Actor (1989)
• Sant Jordi Awards: Best Spanish Actor, LAW OF DESIRE (1988)
• Fotogramas de Plata: Best Movie Actor (1986)

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