Benicio del Toro
Biography
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (Latin American Spanish: [beˈnisjo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, a Goya Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide.
Del Toro made his film debut in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), followed by roles in Basquiat (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Snatch (2000). He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a morally upright police officer in the Steven Soderbergh crime drama Traffic (2000). He was nominated in the same category for his role as an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller 21 Grams (2003). He has since acted in Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Savages (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015), No Sudden Move (2021), and One Battle After Another (2025).
He also took on franchise roles such as Lawrence Talbot in The Wolfman (2010), the Collector in three films from 2013 to 2018 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DJ, the codebreaker, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). On television, he portrayed Richard Matt in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018), for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-02-19
Place of birth
San Germán, Puerto Rico
Images
Cast
Snatch
2000
7.82
Sin City
2005
7.46
21 Grams
2003
7.33
Basquiat
1996
6.60
The Usual Suspects
1995
8.17
Licence to Kill
1989
6.42
The Way of the Gun
2000
6.32
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
7.21
Traffic
2000
7.08
The Hunted
2003
6.20
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
6.63
Fearless
1993
6.89
Swimming with Sharks
1994
6.60
The Poet of Havana
2015
0.00
The Pledge
2001
6.57
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
4.90
The Funeral
1996
6.77
The Wolfman
2010
5.88
Che: Part One
2008
6.82
Che: Part Two
2008
6.70
The Indian Runner
1991
6.53
China Moon
1994
6.10
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
7.20
The Fan
1996
6.00
Excess Baggage
1997
6.10
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
0.00
Making Che
2010
0.00
Breakfast with Hunter
2003
6.70
Golden Balls
1993
5.40
Savages
2012
6.34
Money for Nothing
1993
5.50
Thor: The Dark World
2013
6.51
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
7.91
Jimmy P.
2013
6.08
Inherent Vice
2014
6.54
Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
6.27
Sicario
2015
7.42
Filming “The Hunted”
2003
0.00
The Cutting Edge
2003
0.00
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003
0.00
A Perfect Day
2015
6.66
Joyride
1997
5.00
Bonnie
2022
5.00
Making 'Snatch'
2001
6.40
Cannes Man
1996
5.20
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
6.76
Somewhere
2010
6.10
Shine a Light
2008
6.90
Declaration of Independence
2003
10.00
Bread and Roses
2000
6.29
Julia, toda en mí
2002
0.00
One Battle After Another
2025
7.49
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
6.90
The Little Prince
2015
7.61
Hunter Goes to Hollywood
2003
6.70
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
8.23
The Director and the Jedi
2018
7.30
All-Star Weekend
0.00
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
6.64
The Corporation
0.00
No Sudden Move
2021
6.40
Other Music
2019
6.70
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
2000
6.80
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
0.00
Reptile
2023
6.67
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
6.65
White Lies
0.00
Reenactment
0.00
Neurótica Anónima
2025
0.00