He went on to enroll in some drama classes, eventually joining a theater troupe that toured all over Spain. Banderas’ having become a regular feature of Almodóvar’s movies all throughout the 1980s, Almodóvar is credited for helping launch Banderas’s international career. The film’s success earned Banderas wide recognition, and the following year was given a role in Neil Jordan’s high-profile adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, which allowed him to share the screen with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. He appeared in several major Hollywood releases in 1995, including a starring role in the Robert Rodriguez-directed film Desperado and the antagonist on the action film Assassins, co-starred with Sylvester Stallone. in 1996, he starred alongside Madonna in Evita, an adaptation of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and in Tim Rice in which he played the narrator, Che, a role played by David Essex in the original 1978 West End production. He also starred in Michael Cristofer’s Original Sin alongside Angelina Jolie the same year. in 2003, he starred in the last installment of the trilogy Once Upon A Time in Mexico (in which he appeared with Johnny Depp and Salma Hayek). His voice role as Puss in Boots in Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and the last film in the Shrek franchise, Shrek Forever After, helped make the character popular on the family film circuit.

Banderas was born in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain, in 1960 to Ana Banderas, a school teacher, and José Domínguez Prieto, a police officer in the Guardia Civil. His performance is preserved on the Broadway cast recording released by PS Classics. His voice role as Puss in Boots in Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and the last film in the Shrek franchise, Shrek Forever After, helped make the character popular on the family film circuit. in 2011, the horror thriller The Skin I Live in marked the return of Banderas to Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish director who launched his international career. in The Skin I Live in he breaks out of the Latin Lover mold from his Hollywood work and stars as a calculating revenge-seeking plastic surgeon following the rape of his daughter. The actor has been working with fragrance and beauty multinational company Puig for over ten years becoming one of the brand’s most successful representatives. Both Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were married to other people when they first met. in 2002, the couple’s dedication to philanthropy was recognized when they received the ‘Stella Adler Angel Award’ for their extensive charity work.