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- Antonio Banderas is a Spanish actor known for portraying Zorro in two films.
- He has been married twice in his life and has one child.
- Antonio’s famous marriage was to American actress Melanie Griffith.
Antonio Banderas, nee José Antonio Domínguez Bandera is a Spanish actor and director who has enjoyed a successful Hollywood career. After a serious football injury as a teenager forced him to retire from the professional league. Antonio, now 62, focused on acting and joined Spain’s National Theatre. From there, he began his acting career in the 1980s, appearing in various Spanish projects. His debut on IMDb was in 1992. He made his first Hollywood acting appearance with The Mambo Kings. His name became a household hit after his 1998 show. Zorro’s Maskwhich will make a sequel in 2025 legend of zorro. Today he was nominated 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, 5 Golden Globe Awards, and Oscar Awards.
Antonio has enjoyed a successful love life as well. even though they are divorced He has one biological child from nearly two decades of marriage to the actor. Melanie Griffithand raised her biological child. Dakota Johnson and Alexander Baueris his own. Although Antonio and Melanie divorced in 2015, they are still in love with each other. Read on to learn about Antonio’s marriage and who he might meet now.
Ana Lesa
Antonio and Ana LesaMadrid-born actress Born in Spain in 1962, married from 1987-1996. They were married on July 27, 1987 in the San Nicolas Church in Madrid after six months of dating. Vanity Fair Spain.
Antonio can thank Ana for helping him with his English as he broke into Hollywood in the early 1990s as she partially became his English teacher. “It helped me translate scripts for The Mambo Kingsworking on it It gave me so much confidence that without her I wouldn’t have gotten the role,” Antonio told the publication. because he could not speak a word of English And I spoke fluently to him.” They have no children together and little is known about their personal lives together.
Ana and Antonio never had children together. But she welcomed two daughters with her current husband, a documentary maker. Dharma Villarrealwhom she married in 2000. She has quit acting and has been quite a target since she built a new life with Dharma. The couple tried to open a restaurant in Madrid in 2003. Vanity FairBut it’s not postponed. They also live in locations such as Abu Dhabi, Los Angeles, Madrid and New York.
Melanie Griffith
Antonio and Melanie Griffith, American actresses born in 1957, were married between 1996 and 2015. Melanie began acting in the 1970s and is known for appearing in numerous movies and television shows. During the ’80s and ’90s, including 1986 something wild1988’s working girland 1996 Mulholland Falls. She is the mother of fifty bands Actress Dakota Johnson with her first husband Dan Johnson. The couple were married for less than a year. In 1976, Melanie’s second son AlexanderBorn during her second marriage to the actress. Steven Bauer. The marriage lasted from 1981 to 1989.
Melanie’s longest marriage was to Antonio. who gave birth to an only child Stella Banderas. Stella was brought into the world in 1996 and is also an actress.
Antonio previously revealed that it was love at first sight for him when he first met her eyes at the 1990 Academy Awards. ching Woman near nervous breakdownWe go up to the red carpet and I see this blonde woman. And I know her because I watch her movies. But then I couldn’t remember (her name),” he recalls. vulture In 2019, “So I spoke to (a Spanish filmmaker) Pedro Almodovar), ‘Who is she? Who is she? What’s your name?’ Pedro said, ‘That’s Melanie Griffith!’ I said, ‘That’s it, OMG.’ Six years later, I married her.”
He continued, “Everything happened so quickly. My life moves so fast and it’s fascinating if I look back. I remember those years very brightly and beautifully.
As fans may have noticed, he recalled a life-changing moment after he and Melanie split. Thankfully, they still think about each other’s families and remain close friends after their 2015 divorce. But she is my family.” spy boy The actor pounced on vulture in the same interview “You might be one of my best friends. If not the best friend I have My family lives there, Dakota, little Estella. and Alexander.
After their divorce was made public in June 2014, Antonio addressed the situation in an interview with Spanish television while promoting his project. Automatain which Melanie was involved “It’s been an intense year… Life must go on,” he continued. hello!“I admire and respect first and foremost Melanie as a great actress. I’ve always said that. That’s why she’s in the movie. And you’re still the one I love I love and will love forever.”
Melanie opened up about why their marriage failed in chat in 2017. porter“I think part of the reason my marriage with Antonio collapsed was because I was stuck. Nobody’s to blame,” she said. “It’s just that I’m stuck and I’m not going to let that happen again. I want to be happy with my life I want to do whatever I want to do.”
In 2020, Antonio has signaled that his relationship with Melanie is still strong. “I think we’re both reluctant to bury a 20-year marriage,” he said. El Bregue de la 7continue hello!“We are human, we make mistakes, and that’s the human condition. You have to let go of your ego and don’t want to prove you’re right or find someone wrong. Because it could be either or both of you. There comes a time when you have to accept it.”
He also talks about the family he created. body double actress. “We have a wonderful daughter that we both love and that’s the end result of our relationship,” he added. “The most beautiful thing we’ve ever done together.”
Nicole Kimpel
Antonio is dating an investment adviser. Nicole Kimpel Since splitting with Melanie in 2014, the couple has enjoyed a number of outings and red carpet events over the years, such as the 2022 Starlite Gala in Marbella, Spain, seen above.
Although Antonio did not talk much about their relationship. But he revealed on a visit in 2019. Jimmy Kimmel Live! Nicole, 41, may have saved his life as he suffered a minor heart attack. “My girlfriend, she has a headache and we don’t have anything in the house. So she went out to buy groceries, painkillers, or whatever. She bought this aspirin. which was the only thing she found and she meets the highest I thought it was 5 milligrams,” he recalls.
“The next morning When I started having symptoms and I knew exactly what was going on. She put those aspirin on my tongue And that saved my life,” he added. “Yes. So I got a second chance. And some things in my life have changed since then.”
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