Benicio del Toro

Known for ActingBorn 1967-02-19 (age 59)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Todos Contra Juan

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

Submission

Avengers: Infinity War

What If...?

The Usual Suspects

Guardians of the Galaxy

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Julia, toda en mí

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Icons

Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Tales from the Crypt

Snatch

The Little Prince

Declaration of Independence

Escape at Dannemora

One Battle After Another

Sicario

Inside the Actors Studio

Hunter Goes to Hollywood

Sin City

Viva

The Director and the Jedi

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

21 Grams

Miami Vice

The Graham Norton Show

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Traffic

21 Grams: In Fragments

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

Kill the Jockey

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Maldeamores

Reptile

Shine a Light

Che: Part One

Other Music

Breakfast with Hunter

Fearless

A Perfect Day