Beto Benites (born c. 1970, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian actor, casting director, and producer based in Venezuela. He initially studied law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos before abandoning it for theater, training with Sara Joffré and spending ten years with the Grupo Yuyachkani theater group in Peru. He relocated to Venezuela in the 2000s, where he built his career in both on-screen roles and behind-the-scenes work as a casting director and producer. His most prominent role is Don Luis Sandoval, the drug lord, in Olivier Megaton's Colombiana (2011). His notable film credits include Colombiana (2011) (Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan), The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012) (Joaquín Cosío, Greisy Mena), Bad Hair (2013) (Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange Zambrano), Babysitting 2 (2015) (Philippe Lacheau, Alice David), Km 72 (2015), Paquete #3 (2015), Hermano (2010), Cyrano Fernández (2007), Macuro (2008), and more recently Zafari (2024) and Ramón y Ramón (2024).

Filmography

• 2026Holiness
• 2025Lady Nazca — Bocanegra
• 2025Ramón and Ramón — Venancio
• 2025The Innocents — Choro Plantado
• 2025The Itch — Roberto
• 2025Una página de eternidad — El Guardian
• 2025Zafari — El Flaco
• 2023The Erection of Toribio Bardelli — Ruben
• 2021Autoerotic
• 2020Contactado — Rafo, Casting Director
• 2018We're All Sailors
• 2016Blodimery
• 20153 Beauties — Presentador
• 2015Babysitting 2 — Le chef des secouristes
• 2015From Afar — Casting
• 2015KM 72 — Inspector Parodi, Casting
• 2015Paquete 3 — El Cholo, Executive Producer
• 2014Bad Hair — Boss
• 2012The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas — Tata Añorve
• 2011Colombiana — Don Luis
• 2010Brother — Morocho, Casting
• 2009Libertador Morales, el justiciero — Casting
• 2008Macuro
• 2007Cyrano Fernández — Rosendo
• 2007Postcards from Leningrad — Cadenas
• 2007Quédate
• Bolivar Eterno, ciudadano de la libertad — Director

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2021I'll wait until they call my name — Himself