Javier Cámara

Javier Cámara is one of those actors whose face I trust completely. From the quiet nurse in Almodóvar's Talk to Her to his Goya-winning work, he moves between comedy and melancholy without ever showing the seams. What I value is his refusal of vanity; coming from a small Rioja wine town, he carries the texture of ordinary lives, their sorrow and their absurdity, into every role. He earned a Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts yet seems entirely without grandeur. That combination of range and humility is rare, and it is exactly why I hope he keeps working for decades more.

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Name (English)

Javier Cámara

Name (Japanese)

ハビエル・カマラ

Reading

はびえる・かまら

Born

January 19, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja, Spain

Occupation

actor / film director / film actor / television actor / photographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor
• 2014 Goya Award for Best Actor
• 2022 Premio Feroz for Best Main Actor in a TV Series
• 2022 Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
• 2024 Premio Mestre Mateo á mellor dirección

• Official sitehttps://javiercamara.weebly.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/JAVIERCAMARA1
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20C%C3%A1mara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%93%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537931

Tags

• La Rioja
• actor
• film director
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.