Benicio del Toro
Known for: Acting
Born: February 19, 1967
Place of birth: San Germán, Puerto Rico
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.
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Filmography
94 movies · 23 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
2026
NR
Neurótica Anónima
2025
7.3
One Battle After Another
2025
6.5
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
NR
Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
2025
6.7
Kill the Jockey
2024
6.7
Reptile
2023
5.3
Bonnie
2022
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
8.0
What If...?
2021
6.4
No Sudden Move
2021
NR
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.6
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
6.7
Other Music
2019
5.3
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
7.5
Escape at Dannemora
2018
6.9
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
8.2
Avengers: Infinity War
2018
7.2
The Director and the Jedi
2018
6.7
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
5.0
The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo
2017
NR
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
2016
7.3
Viva
2015
NR
The Poet of Havana
2015
7.4
Sicario
2015
6.7
A Perfect Day
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
7.6
The Little Prince
2015
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
6.5
Inherent Vice
2014
6.3
Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
7.9
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
6.5
Thor: The Dark World
2013
6.1
Jimmy P.
2013
6.4
Savages
2012
5.6
7 Days in Havana
2012
6.1
Somewhere
2010
6.6
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
2010
5.9
The Wolfman
2010
NR
Making Che
2010
6.5
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
6.6
Che: Part Two
2008
8.7
Todos Contra Juan
2008
6.8
Che: Part One
2008
6.8
Shine a Light
2008
6.5
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
2008
6.6
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
6.9
Maldeamores
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007
7.2
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
5.8
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005
7.5
Sin City
2005
8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
8.5
Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004
7.0
21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
7.3
21 Grams
2003NR
Filming “The Hunted”
2003NR
The Cutting Edge
2003NR
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003
6.8
Breakfast with Hunter
2003
7.7
Declaration of Independence
2003
6.2
The Hunted
2003
7.5
Hunter Goes to Hollywood
2003
8.0
Julia, toda en mí
2002
6.5
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
8.0
Icons
2002
7.0
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
2002
8.0
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
6.1
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
6.5
Making 'Snatch'
2001
6.6
The Pledge
2001
7.1
Traffic
2000
7.0
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
7.4
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
2000
6.3
Bread and Roses
2000
6.4
The Way of the Gun
2000
7.8
Snatch
2000
8.0
Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
7.2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
5.1
Joyride
1997
6.1
Excess Baggage
1997
4.3
The View
1997
6.0
The Fan
1996
6.6
Basquiat
1996
5.3
Cannes Man
1996
6.8
The Funeral
1996
8.2
The Usual Suspects
19958.5
Submission
1995
6.0
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
6.6
Swimming with Sharks
1994
NR
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
6.1
China Moon
1994
6.9
Fearless
1993
5.5
Golden Balls
1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
5.6
Money for Nothing
1993
6.6
Fallen Angels
1993
4.8
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992
6.5
The Indian Runner
1991
8.6
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
1990
6.5
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
1990
6.4
Licence to Kill
1989
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
5.0
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
7.4
Miami Vice
1984
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
7.0
The Oscars
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944
NR
All-Star Weekend
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The Corporation
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NR
Elysian Park and the Stone Quarry Hills
—NR
Reenactment
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Sicario: Capos
—NR
Protective Custody
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