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If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

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Antonio Banderas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 10
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Malaga
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera
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