Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 19, 1967
Place of Birth
San Germán, Puerto Rico
Credits
117 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another
Self
Neurótica Anónima
One Battle After Another
Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
The Phoenician Scheme
Zsa-zsa Korda
Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
Narrator
Kill the Jockey
Executive Producer
Reptile
Tom Nichols
Bonnie
Self
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Moses Rosenthaler
What If...?
The Collector (voice)
No Sudden Move
Ronald Russo
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Swiper (voice)
Other Music
Self
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Actor
Escape at Dannemora
Richard Matt
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Alejandro Gillick
Avengers: Infinity War
The Collector
The Director and the Jedi
Self
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
DJ
The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo
Executive Producer
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
(archive footage)
Viva
Executive Producer
The Poet of Havana
Self
Sicario
Alejandro Gillick
A Perfect Day
Mambrú
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
The Little Prince
The Snake (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Inherent Vice
Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
Escobar: Paradise Lost
Pablo Escobar
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Collector
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Thor: The Dark World
Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited)
Jimmy P.
Jimmy Picard
Savages
Lado
7 Days in Havana
Director
Somewhere
Celebrity (uncredited)
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
Self
The Wolfman
Lawrence Talbot
Making Che
Self
Where the Wild Things Are
Thanks
Che: Part Two
Ernesto Che Guevara
Todos Contra Juan
Benicio del Toro
Che: Part One
Ernesto Che Guevara
Shine a Light
Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
Narrator (voice)
Things We Lost in the Fire
Jerry Sunborne