Benicio del Toro
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 (42)
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
Reptile
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
No Sudden Move
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Avengers: Infinity War
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sicario
The Little Prince
A Perfect Day
Guardians of the Galaxy
Inherent Vice
Escobar: Paradise Lost
Thor: The Dark World
Savages
The Wolfman
Somewhere
Where the Wild Things Are
Che: Part Two
Che: Part One
Things We Lost in the Fire
Sin City
The Hunted
21 Grams
The Pledge
The Way of the Gun
Snatch
Traffic
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Excess Baggage
The Fan
Basquiat
The Funeral
The Usual Suspects
Swimming with Sharks
China Moon
Fearless
The Indian Runner
Licence to Kill
