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When did Antonio Banderas get his first Hollywood Breakthrough?

June 18, 2020 by Karen Hill

Americans first started noticing Antonio Banderas in a 1988 film called Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

This dark comedy from Spain played to great acclaim in the United States.

Its director, Pedro Almodovar, became internationally known, as did Banderas, a star of this and other AlmodOvar films. The actor has since come to Hollywood to be a leading man in such American films as Desperado (1995).

That film was directed by Robert Rodriguez, a Hispanic American from Texas who made his name with the Spanish-language film El Mariachi (1992).

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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