Antonio Banderas Personal Life

Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas divorced his first wife, Ana Leza, and on May 14, 1996, married American actress Melanie Griffith in a private, low-key ceremony in London. They had met a year earlier while shooting Two Much. Both Griffith and Antonio Banderas were married to other people when they first met. They have a daughter, Stella Banderas, who appeared with her parents in the 1999 film Crazy in Alabama, in which Griffith starred and which Banderas directed. In 2002, the couple's dedication to philanthropy was recognized when they received the 'Stella Adler Angel Award' for their extensive charity work.

In 1996, Antonio Banderas appeared among other figures of Spanish culture in a video supporting the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lists in the general election. He is a long time supporter of the Málaga CF.

He is an officer (mayordomo de trono) of a Roman Catholic religious brotherhood in Málaga and travels, with his wife and daughter, during Holy Week to take part in the processions, although in an interview with People magazine Antonio Banderas had once described himself as an agnostic. In May 2010, Antonio Banderas received his honorary doctorate from the University of Málaga in the city where he was born.