Benicio del Toro
- Acting
- February 19, 1967 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another · Self
- Neurótica Anónima
- One Battle After Another · Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
- The Phoenician Scheme · Zsa-zsa Korda
- Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion · Narrator
- Kill the Jockey · Executive producer
- Reptile · Tom Nichols, Screenplay
- Bonnie · Self
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun · Moses Rosenthaler
- What If...? · The Collector (Voice)
- No Sudden Move · Ronald Russo
- Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage · Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Dora and the Lost City of Gold · Swiper (Voice)
- Other Music · Self
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast · Self
- Escape at Dannemora · Richard Matt
- Sicario: Day of the Soldado · Alejandro Gillick
- Avengers: Infinity War · The Collector
- The Director and the Jedi · Self
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi · DJ
- The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo · Executive producer
- Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario · (archive footage)
- Viva · Executive producer
- The Poet of Havana · Self
- Sicario · Alejandro Gillick
- A Perfect Day · Mambrú
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Little Prince · The Snake (Voice)
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- Inherent Vice · Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
- Escobar: Paradise Lost · Pablo Escobar, Executive producer
- Guardians of the Galaxy · The Collector
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Thor: The Dark World · Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited)
- Jimmy P. · Jimmy Picard
- Savages · Lado
- 7 Days in Havana · Director
- Somewhere · Celebrity (uncredited)
- The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile · Self
- The Wolfman · Lawrence Talbot, Producer
- Making Che · Self
- Where the Wild Things Are · Thanks
- Che: Part Two · Ernesto Che Guevara, Producer
- Todos Contra Juan · Benicio del Toro
- Che: Part One · Ernesto Che Guevara, Producer
- Shine a Light · Self
- The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry · Narrator (Voice)
- Things We Lost in the Fire · Jerry Sunborne
- Maldeamores · Executive producer
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride · Self
- Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula · Macro
- Sin City · Jackie Boy
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Self
- Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man · Self
- 21 Grams: In Fragments · Self
- 21 Grams · Jack Jordan
- Filming “The Hunted” · Self
- Pursuing “The Hunted” · Self
- The Cutting Edge · Self
- Breakfast with Hunter · Self
- Declaration of Independence · Self
- The Hunted · Aaron Hallam
- Hunter Goes to Hollywood · Self
- Julia, toda en mí
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema · Self
- Icons
- Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' · Self
- Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette · Self
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross · Self
- Making 'Snatch' · Self
- The Pledge · Toby Jay Wadenah
- Traffic · Javier Rodriguez
- Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' · Self
- Inside 'Licence to Kill' · Self
- Bread and Roses · Party Guest (uncredited)
- The Way of the Gun · Mr. Longbaugh
- Snatch · Franky Four Fingers