Benicio del Toro
ActingAlso Known As
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez, Beno del Toro, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benicio del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(88 total)
Avengers: Infinity War
as The Collector
Guardians of the Galaxy
as The Collector
Thor: The Dark World
as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited)
The Usual Suspects
as Fenster
Snatch
as Franky Four Fingers
Sicario
as Alejandro Gillick
Sin City
as Jackie Boy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
as Dr. Gonzo
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Alejandro Gillick
21 Grams
as Jack Jordan
One Battle After Another
as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
The Little Prince
as The Snake (voice)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Moses Rosenthaler
Inherent Vice
as Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
Traffic
as Javier Rodriguez
Savages
as Lado
The Wolfman
as Lawrence Talbot
Licence to Kill
as Dario
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
as Swiper (voice)
TV Shows
(22 total)
What If...?
as The Collector (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
as Bill
Miami Vice
as Pito
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Escape at Dannemora
as Richard Matt
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
The View
as Self
The Oscars
as Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Fallen Angels
as Paco
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
as Caro Quintero
