Benicio del Toro
Born February 19, 1967 (Age: 59)
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San Germán, Puerto Rico
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benicio del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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.
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Filmography
One Battle After Another
2025
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as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
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Age: 58
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
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as Zsa-zsa Korda
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Age: 58
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
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as Moses Rosenthaler
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Age: 54
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
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as Swiper (voice)
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Age: 52
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
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as Alejandro Gillick
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Age: 51
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
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as The Collector
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Age: 51
The Director and the Jedi
2018
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as Self
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Age: 51
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
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as DJ
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Age: 50
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
2016
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 48
Sicario
2015
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as Alejandro Gillick
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Age: 48
A Perfect Day
2015
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as Mambrú
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Age: 48
The Little Prince
2015
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as The Snake (voice)
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Age: 48
Inherent Vice
2014
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as Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
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Age: 47
Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
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as Pablo Escobar
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Age: 47
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
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as The Collector
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Age: 47
Thor: The Dark World
2013
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as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited)
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Age: 46
Savages
2012
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as Lado
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Age: 45
Somewhere
2010
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as Celebrity (uncredited)
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Age: 43
The Wolfman
2010
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as Lawrence Talbot
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Age: 42
Che: Part Two
2008
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as Ernesto Che Guevara
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Age: 41
Shine a Light
2008
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as Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)
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Age: 41
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
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as Jerry Sunborne
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Age: 40
Sin City
2005
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as Jackie Boy
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Age: 38
21 Grams
2003
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as Jack Jordan
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Age: 36
The Hunted
2003
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as Aaron Hallam
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Age: 36
The Pledge
2001
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as Toby Jay Wadenah
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Age: 33
Traffic
2000
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as Javier Rodriguez
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Age: 33
Bread and Roses
2000
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as Party Guest (uncredited)
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Age: 33
The Way of the Gun
2000
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as Mr. Longbaugh
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Age: 33
Snatch
2000
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as Franky Four Fingers
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Age: 33
Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
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as Self
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Age: 31
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
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as Dr. Gonzo
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Age: 31
The Fan
1996
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as Juan Primo
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Age: 29
Basquiat
1996
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as Benny Dalmau
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Age: 29
The Usual Suspects
1995
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as Fenster
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Age: 28
Swimming with Sharks
1994
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as Rex
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Age: 27
China Moon
1994
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as Lamar Dickey
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Age: 27
Fearless
1993
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as Manny Rodrigo
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Age: 26
Money for Nothing
1993
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as Dino Palladino
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Age: 26
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992
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as Alvaro Harana
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Age: 25
The Indian Runner
1991
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as Miguel
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Age: 24
Licence to Kill
1989
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as Dario
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Age: 22
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
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as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy
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Age: 21