
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.
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Filmography

Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
2026
as Self

Neurótica Anónima
2025

One Battle After Another
2025
as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos

The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Zsa-zsa Korda

Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
2025
as Narrator

Reptile
2023
as Tom Nichols

Bonnie
2022
as Self

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Moses Rosenthaler

No Sudden Move
2021
as Ronald Russo

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
as Self

Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
as Swiper (voice)

Other Music
2019
as Self

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
as Self - Actor

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Alejandro Gillick

Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as The Collector

The Director and the Jedi
2018
as Self

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
as DJ

Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
2016
as (archive footage)

The Poet of Havana
2015
as Self

Sicario
2015
as Alejandro Gillick

A Perfect Day
2015
as Mambrú

The Little Prince
2015
as The Snake (voice)

Inherent Vice
2014
as Sauncho Smilax, Esq.

Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
as Pablo Escobar