Benicio del Toro profile
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Benicio del Toro

19th February 1967 San Germán, Puerto Rico Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benicio del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

79 Movies 22 TV Shows 110 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Reptile poster
Reptile 29th September 2023 as Tom Nichols
Bonnie poster
Bonnie 12th November 2022 as Self
Sicario poster
Sicario 17th September 2015 as Alejandro Gillick
Jimmy P. poster
Jimmy P. 11th September 2013 as Jimmy Picard
Somewhere poster
Somewhere 3rd September 2010 as Celebrity (uncredited)
Shine a Light poster
Shine a Light 4th April 2008 as Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)
Traffic poster
Traffic 27th December 2000 as Javier Rodriguez
Snatch poster
Snatch 1st September 2000 as Franky Four Fingers
Joyride poster
Joyride 18th November 1997 as Detective Lopez
The Fan poster
The Fan 15th August 1996 as Juan Primo
Fearless poster
Fearless 15th October 1993 as Manny Rodrigo