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Benicio del Toro

Acting Born Feb 19, 1967 San Germán, Puerto Rico 123 credits

Biography

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sanchez is a Puerto Rican actor born on February 19, 1967, in San German, Puerto Rico. 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, and the films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide. He made his film debut in Big Top Pee-wee in 1988 before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller The Usual Suspects in 1995. This was followed by roles in Basquiat in 1996, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998, and Snatch in 2000, and he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Career

Career overview

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sanchez was born on February 19, 1967, in San German, Puerto Rico. He is a Puerto Rican actor with 117 known credits listed on his filmography.

His film career began with his debut in Big Top Pee-wee in 1988. He achieved his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the 1995 crime thriller The Usual Suspects. Following this success, he appeared in films including Basquiat in 1996, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998, and Snatch in 2000.

Throughout his career, his accolades have included an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, a Goya Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Silver Bear. Additionally, films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide. He received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a morally complex character.

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Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
One Battle After AnotherThe Phoenician SchemeNeurótica AnónimaTeofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
Kill the Jockey · Executive Producer
ReptileReptile · ScreenplayReptile · Executive Producer
Bonnie
What If...?The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunNo Sudden Move
The Kelly Clarkson ShowDora and the Lost City of GoldOther MusicRaúl Juliá: The World’s a StageNice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Avengers: Infinity WarSicario: Day of the SoldadoEscape at DannemoraThe Director and the Jedi
Star Wars: The Last JediThe Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo · Executive Producer
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSicarioThe Little PrinceA Perfect DayViva · Executive Producer
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonLate Night with Seth MeyersVariety Studio: Actors on ActorsGuardians of the GalaxyEscobar: Paradise Lost
Thor: The Dark WorldJimmy P.
Savages7 Days in Havana · Director
The WolfmanThe Wolfman · ProducerSomewhereThe Rolling Stones: Stones in ExileMaking Che
Where the Wild Things Are · Thanks
Todos Contra JuanChe: Part OneChe: Part One · ProducerChe: Part TwoChe: Part Two · Producer
The Graham Norton ShowThings We Lost in the FireMaldeamores · Executive Producer
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Sin CityTrailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
21 Grams: In FragmentsSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood RenegadeCreature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
21 GramsThe HuntedFilming “The Hunted”Declaration of IndependenceBreakfast with Hunter
IconsRound Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - FeaturetteJulia, toda en míThe Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Friday Night with Jonathan RossThe PledgeMaking 'Snatch'
SnatchTrafficBread and RosesThe Way of the GunInside 'Licence to Kill'
Fear and Loathing in Las VegasSpotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The ViewExcess BaggageJoyride
The FanBasquiatThe FuneralCannes Man
The Usual SuspectsThe Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRASubmission · DirectorSubmission · Writer
China MoonSwimming with SharksInside the Actors Studio

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