Benicio del Toro

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Goya Award, and the Best Actor awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide.

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Benicio del Toro is a Puerto Rican actor who has achieved major recognition in Hollywood, winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and top prizes at the Berlin and Cannes film festivals, among other honors. His films have generated over $5.9 billion in worldwide box office revenue, making him a commercially successful and critically acclaimed performer.

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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 Award, a Goya Award, and the Best Actor awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. 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's crime drama Traffic (2000), and was nominated in the same category for playing an ex-con in Alejandro González Iñárritu's thriller 21 Grams (2003) and for playing a karate teacher in Paul Thomas Anderson's action comedy One Battle After Another (2025). He has also starred in Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Savages (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015) and its sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), and No Sudden Move (2021).