Benicio del Toro
Benicio del Toro is a Puerto Rican actor. Born February 19, 1967, in San Germán. Educated at University of California, San Diego and Circle in the Square Theatre School. Awards include Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
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- Described as
- Puerto Rican actor (born 1967)
- Other names
- Benicio Del Toro, Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez
- Born
- February 19, 1967 · 6 references
- Born in
- San Germán · 1 reference
- Citizen of
- Spain (2011–); United States
- Occupation
- actor · 1 reference; television actor; film actor; film director; film producer; screenwriter · 1 reference
- Education
- University of California, San Diego; Circle in the Square Theatre School; Stella Adler Studio of Acting; Mercersburg Academy · 1 reference; Academia del Perpetuo Socorro
- Awards
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male (1997) · 1 reference; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (2001) · 1 reference; Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (2001) · 1 reference; Silver Bear for Best Actor (2001) · 1 reference; Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (2008) · 1 reference; Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (2001) · 1 reference; International Cinephile Society Award for Best Supporting Actor (2004) · 2 references; Donostia Award (2014)
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1383093801
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 Award, a Goya Award, and the Best Actor awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. 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), Excess Baggage (1997), 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 Steven Soderbergh's crime drama Traffic (2000), and was nominated in the same category for playing an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller 21 Grams (2003) and for playing a karate teacher in Paul Thomas Anderson's action comedy One Battle After Another (2025). He has also starred in Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Savages (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015) and its sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), and No Sudden Move (2021).
Del Toro also took franchise roles such as Dario in the James Bond film Licence to Kill (1989), 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 has also worked with Wes Anderson in the 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.
- Born, in its opening lines
- February 19, 1967
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