Antonio Banderas’ Former Wives: His 2 Past Marriages, Plus Who He’s Dating Now

• Antonio Banderas is simply a Spanish-born histrion known for portraying Zorro successful 2 films
• He has been joined doubly successful his beingness and has 1 biologic child
• Antonio’s well-known matrimony was to American histrion Melanie Griffith

Antonio Banderas, nee José Antonio Domínguez Bandera, is simply a Spanish-born histrion and manager who has enjoyed a fruitful Hollywood career. After a devastating shot wounded arsenic a teen took him retired of the moving for the pro leagues, Antonio, present 62, focused connected acting and joined the National Theatre of Spain. From there, helium kicked disconnected his nonrecreational acting resume successful the 1980s by appearing successful respective Spanish projects. A decennary aft his archetypal listed acting gig connected IMDb, successful 1992, helium landed his archetypal Hollywood acting relation with The Mambo Kings. His sanction became of household popularity aft helium starred successful 1998’s The Mask of Zorro, which spawned a 2025 sequel, The Legend of Zorro. Today, helium has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, 5 Golden Globe Awards, and an Academy Award.

Antonio has enjoyed a palmy emotion beingness arsenic well, contempt being divored. He has 1 biologic kid from his astir two-decade-long matrimony to actress Melanie Griffith, and raised her biologic children, Dakota Johnson and Alexander Bauer, arsenic his own. Although Antonio and Melanie divorced successful 2015, they inactive stock a large woody of emotion for 1 another. Read connected to larn astir Antonio’s marriages and who helium whitethorn beryllium seeing now.

Ana Leza

Antonio Banderas and his archetypal wife, Ana Leza, airs astatine the 1994 ‘Interview with the Vampire’ premiere (Photo: Shutterstock)

Antonio and Ana Leza, an histrion calved successful Madrid, Spain successful 1962, were joined betwixt 1987 and 1996. The brace tied the knot connected July 27, 1987 successful the Church of San Nicolás successful Madrid aft dating for magnitude six months, according to Vanity Fair Spain.

Antonio tin convey Ana for helping him with his English arsenic helium broke retired into Hollywood successful the aboriginal 1990s, arsenic she partially became his English teacher. “It helped maine construe the publication for The Mambo Kings, to enactment connected it, it gave maine a batch of confidence. Without her I would not person gotten the role,” Antonio told the publication. Leza added, “It was imperative that I travel him to the United States, due to the fact that helium didn’t talk a connection of English and I talk him fluently.” They had nary kids unneurotic and precise small is known astir their backstage beingness together.

Ana and Antonio ne'er had kids together, but she went connected to invited 2 daughters with her existent husband, documentarian Dharma Villareal, whom she joined successful 2000. She discontinue acting and has been reasonably nether the radar since she built a caller beingness with Dharma. The brace attempted to unfastened up a edifice successful Madrid successful 2003, according to Vanity Fair, but it did not cookware out. They person besides lived successful respective locations, including Abu Dhabi, Los Angeles, Madrid, and New York.

Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas be the ‘Black Nativity’ premiere successful 2013 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Antonio and Melanie Griffith, an American histrion calved successful 1957, were joined betwixt 1996 and 2015. Melanie began acting successful the 1970s and is known for appearing successful a assortment of films and tv shows successful the ’80s and ’90s, including 1986’s Something Wild, 1988’s Working Girl, and 1996’s Mulholland Falls. She is notably the mother of Fifty Shades actress Dakota Johnson, who she had with her archetypal husband, Dan Johnson. They were joined for less than a twelvemonth successful 1976. Melanie’s 2nd child, lad Alexander, was calved during her 2nd matrimony to actor Steven Bauer. The matrimony lasted from 1981 to 1989.

Melanie’s longest matrimony was that to Antonio, which produced their lone child, Stella Banderas. Stella, was brought into the satellite successful 1996, is besides an actress.

Antonio antecedently revealed it was emotion astatine archetypal show for him erstwhile helium archetypal laid eyes upon her astatine the 1990 Academy Awards. “The archetypal clip I went to the Academy Awards aft we got a information for Women connected the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, we got connected the reddish carpet and I saw this blonde pistillate and I knew her due to the fact that I saw movies of her, but I didn’t retrieve [her name] astatine the time,” helium recalled to Vulture in 2019  “So, I said to [Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar], ‘Who is she? Who is she? What is her name?’ Pedro said, ‘That’s Melanie Griffith!’ I said, ‘That’s it. Oh my God.’ Six years later, I was joined to her.”

He continued, “Everything happened successful those years truly fast. My beingness was accelerated and fascinating if I really spot it successful retrospective. I retrieve those years arsenic precise effervescent and truly beautiful.”

As fans whitethorn notice, helium remembered the life-changing infinitesimal aft helium and Melanie had gone their abstracted ways. Luckily, they inactive see each different household and person remained adjacent friends pursuing their 2015 divorce. “I americium not joined with Melanie anymore, but she is my family,” the Spy Kids histrion gushed to Vulture successful the aforesaid interview. “She is astir apt 1 of my champion friends, if not the champion person that I have. My household is there, Dakota, Little Estella and Alexander.”

After their divorcement was made nationalist successful June 2014, Antonio addressed the concern successful an interrogation with a Spanish tv presumption portion promoting his project, Automata, successful which Melanie had a part. “It’s been an aggravated year… Life goes on,” helium said, per Hello!. “I respect and respect Melanie archetypal and foremost arsenic a large actress. I person ever said that. That’s wherefore she’s successful the movie. And she’s besides the idiosyncratic that I loved, that I emotion and volition ever love.”

Melanie opened up astir wherefore their matrimony didn’t enactment successful a 2017 chat with Porter. “I deliberation portion of the crushed my matrimony to Antonio fell isolated was due to the fact that I was stuck; cipher other is to blame,” she noted. “It’s conscionable that I personally got stuck and I won’t fto that hap again, I privation to bask life, I privation to bash immoderate I privation to do.”

In 2020, Antonio signaled that his narration with Melanie was inactive successful tact. “I deliberation we are some reluctant to hide 20 years of marriage,” helium told El Break de las 7, per Hello!. “We are quality beings, we marque mistakes and that is the quality condition. You person to permission egos speech and not privation to beryllium that you are close oregon find who’s blameworthy of what. Because it whitethorn beryllium some oregon neither of you. There is simply a infinitesimal erstwhile things are implicit you person to judge it.”

He besides spoke astir the household helium created with the Body Double actress. “We had a fantastic girl that we some emotion and that is the extremity effect of our relationship,” helium added. “The astir beauteous happening we ever did together.”

Nicole Kimpel

Antonio Banderas and Nicole Kimpel airs astatine the 2022 Starlite Gala (Photo: Shutterstock)

Antonio has been dating concern advisor Nicole Kimpel since his divided from Melanie successful 2014. The brace person enjoyed several nationalist outings and red-carpet events implicit the years, specified arsenic the 2022 Starlite Gala successful Marbella, Spain, arsenic seen above.

Although Antonio has not said overmuch astir their relationship, helium revealed successful a 2019 sojourn on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that Nicole, 41, whitethorn person saved his beingness portion helium experienced a tiny bosom attack. “My girlfriend, she had a headache and we didn’t person thing successful the house. So she went retired to bargain something, a painkiller oregon whatever. She bought this aspirin, which is the lone happening that she recovered and she recovered the maximum one, I deliberation it was 5 milligrams,” helium recalled.

“The adjacent morning, erstwhile I started having the symptoms and I intelligibly knew what was going on, she enactment 1 of those aspirins wrong of my lingua and that saved my life,” helium added. “Yeah. So I had a 2nd chance, and immoderate worldly changed successful my life, since then.”

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