Benicio del Toro
Actor
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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As Director
Filmography
Avengers: Infinity War
as The Collector 2018
Guardians of the Galaxy
as The Collector 2014
Thor: The Dark World
as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited) 2013
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as DJ 2017
The Usual Suspects
as Fenster 1995
Snatch
as Franky Four Fingers 2000
Sicario
as Alejandro Gillick 2015
Sin City
as Jackie Boy 2005
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
as Dr. Gonzo 1998
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Alejandro Gillick 2018
21 Grams
as Jack Jordan 2003
The Little Prince
as The Snake (voice) 2015
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Moses Rosenthaler 2021
Inherent Vice
as Sauncho Smilax, Esq. 2014
One Battle After Another
as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos 2025
Traffic
as Javier Rodriguez 2000
Savages
as Lado 2012