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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.
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As actor
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
Neurótica Anónima
Reptile
Bonnie
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
No Sudden Move
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Other Music
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Avengers: Infinity War
The Director and the Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
The Poet of Havana
Sicario
A Perfect Day
The Little Prince
Guardians of the Galaxy
Inherent Vice
Escobar: Paradise Lost
Thor: The Dark World
Jimmy P.
Savages
The Wolfman
Making Che