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Benicio del Toro

Benicio del Toro

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Born February 19, 1967, San Germán, Puerto Rico

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (42)
  • 2026Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another — Self
  • 2022Bonnie — Self
  • 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Actor
  • 2019Other Music — Self
  • 2019Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage — Self
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • 2018The Director and the Jedi — Self
  • Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
  • 2015The Poet of Havana — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
  • 2010Making Che — Self
  • 2010The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile — Self
  • 2008Shine a Light — Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2006Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride — Self
  • 200421 Grams: In Fragments — Self
  • 2004Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man — Self
  • 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self
  • 2003Breakfast with Hunter — Self
  • 2003Declaration of Independence — Self
  • 2003Filming “The Hunted” — Self
  • 2003Hunter Goes to Hollywood — Self
  • 2003Pursuing “The Hunted” — Self
  • 2003The Cutting Edge — Self
  • 2002Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette — Self
  • 2002Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' — Self
  • 2002The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema — Himself
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
  • 2001Making 'Snatch' — Self
  • 2000Inside 'Licence to Kill' — Self
  • 2000Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' — Self
  • 1998Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Self
  • The View — Self
  • 1996Cannes Man — Self
  • The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
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