Benicio del Toro
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Benicio del Toro

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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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Films Featuring Benicio del Toro

Snatch

20007.8

Sin City

20057.5

21 Grams

20037.3

Basquiat

19966.6

The Usual Suspects

19958.2

Licence to Kill

19896.4

The Way of the Gun

20006.3

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

19987.2

Traffic

20007.1

The Hunted

20036.2

Things We Lost in the Fire

20076.6

Fearless

19936.9

Swimming with Sharks

19946.6

The Poet of Havana

2015

The Pledge

20016.6

Big Top Pee-wee

19885.0

The Funeral

19966.7

The Wolfman

20105.9

Che: Part One

20086.8

Che: Part Two

20086.6

The Indian Runner

19916.5

China Moon

19946.1

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

20067.2

The Fan

19966.0

Excess Baggage

19976.1

21 Grams: In Fragments

20047.0

Making Che

2010

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

19924.8

Breakfast with Hunter

20036.8

Golden Balls

19935.5

Savages

20126.4

Money for Nothing

19935.6

Thor: The Dark World

20136.5

Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion

2025

Guardians of the Galaxy

20147.9

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'

20007.0

Jimmy P.

20136.1

Inherent Vice

20146.5

Escobar: Paradise Lost

20146.3

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

20048.0

Sicario

20157.4

Filming “The Hunted”

Filming “The Hunted”

2003

The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge

2003

Pursuing “The Hunted”

Pursuing “The Hunted”

2003

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula

20055.8

A Perfect Day

20156.7

Joyride

19975.1

Bonnie

20225.3

Making 'Snatch'

20016.5

Cannes Man

19965.4

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

20176.7

Somewhere

20106.1

Shine a Light

20086.8

Declaration of Independence

20037.7

Bread and Roses

20006.3

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema

20026.5

The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry

20086.5

The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile

20106.6

Julia, toda en mí

20028.0

One Battle After Another

20257.3

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

20186.9

The Little Prince

20157.6

Hunter Goes to Hollywood

20037.5

Avengers: Infinity War

20188.2

The Director and the Jedi

20187.2

All-Star Weekend

Dora and the Lost City of Gold

20196.6

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

20217.0

The Corporation

The Corporation

Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

19988.0

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

20027.0

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

20028.0

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

20048.5

No Sudden Move

20216.4

Other Music

20196.7

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

20007.4

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

19908.6

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

2019

Reptile

20236.7

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

20195.3

Elysian Park and the Stone Quarry Hills

The Phoenician Scheme

20256.5

Reenactment

Reenactment

Neurótica Anónima

2025

Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario

2016

Sicario: Capos

Sicario: Capos

Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another

20268.0