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Actor and United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Antonio Banderas supports Global Goal 1 -- to end poverty in all its forms.

Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series. His father, Jose Dominguez, was a policeman in the Spanish civil guards. Young Banderas was brought up a Roman Catholic. He wanted to play soccer professionally and made much success playing for his school team until the age of 14, albeit his dream ended when he broke his foot.

At that time, he developed a passion for theatre after seeing the stage production of "Hair".

Actor and United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Antonio Banderas Genocídio de indígenas brasileiros.

He was arrested by the Spanish police for performance in a play by Bertolt Brecht , because of political censorship under the rule of General Francisco Franco. Banderas spent a whole night at the police station, he had three or four such arrests while he was working with a small theatre troupe that toured all over Spain and was giving performances in small town theatres and on the street.

In , at age 19, he moved to Madrid in pursuit of an acting career. Being a struggling young actor, he also worked as a waiter and took small modeling jobs. At that time, he joined the troupe at the National Theatre of Spain, becoming the youngest member of the company. Banderas and Almodovar joined forces in making innovative and sexually provocative movies during the s.

In , Banderas made headlines in Spain with his performance as a gay man, making his first male-to-male on-screen kiss in Almodovar's Law of Desire