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Benicio del Toro

Benicio del Toro

AKA: Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez · Beno del Toro · Benicio Del Toro

Acting

Born: 1967 San Germán, Puerto Rico 15 Global Credits 🔥 3.6 Popularity
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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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Known For

Full Credits

Show / Title Year Credit / Role
The Kelly Clarkson Show 2019 Self
Escape at Dannemora 2018 Richard Matt
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014 Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014 Self - Guest
Todos Contra Juan 2008 Benicio del Toro
The Graham Norton Show 2007 Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross 2001 Self - Guest
The View 1997 Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien 1993 Self - Guest
Fallen Angels 1993 Paco
Tales from the Crypt 1989 Bill
Miami Vice 1984 Pito
Saturday Night Live 1975 Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Oscars 1953 Self
Golden Globe Awards 1944 Self - Nominee