Benicio del Toro
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.
Movies (79)
Neurótica Anónima
2025
One Battle After Another
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
2025
Reptile
2023
Bonnie
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
No Sudden Move
2021
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
Other Music
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
The Director and the Jedi
2018
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
2016
The Poet of Havana
2015
Sicario
2015
A Perfect Day
2015
The Little Prince
2015
Inherent Vice
2014
Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
Thor: The Dark World
2013
Jimmy P.
2013
Savages
2012
Somewhere
2010
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
2010
The Wolfman
2010
Making Che
2010
Che: Part Two
2008
Che: Part One
2008
Shine a Light
2008
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
2008
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005
Sin City
2005
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
21 Grams
2003
Breakfast with Hunter
2003
Declaration of Independence
2003
The Hunted
2003
Hunter Goes to Hollywood
2003
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
2002
Making 'Snatch'
2001
The Pledge
2001
Traffic
2000
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
2000
Bread and Roses
2000
The Way of the Gun
2000
Snatch
2000
Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
Joyride
1997
Excess Baggage
1997
The Fan
1996
Basquiat
1996
Cannes Man
1996
The Funeral
1996
The Usual Suspects
1995
Swimming with Sharks
1994
China Moon
1994
Fearless
1993
Golden Balls
1993
Money for Nothing
1993
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992
The Indian Runner
1991
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
1990
Licence to Kill
1989
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
All-Star Weekend
Elysian Park and the Stone Quarry Hills
TV Shows (22)
What If...?
2021
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Escape at Dannemora
2018
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Todos Contra Juan
2008
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Icons
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
The View
1997
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Fallen Angels
1993
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
1990
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Miami Vice
1984
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Oscars
1953
Golden Globe Awards
1944