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.
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Movies (41)
Neurótica Anónima
2025
One Battle After Another
as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
as Zsa-zsa Korda
2025
Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
as Narrator
2025
Kill the Jockey
Executive Producer (Production)
2024
Reptile
as Tom Nichols
2023
Bonnie
as Self
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Moses Rosenthaler
2021
No Sudden Move
as Ronald Russo
2021
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
as Self
2019
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
as Swiper (voice)
2019
Other Music
as Self
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actor
2019
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Alejandro Gillick
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
as The Collector
2018
The Director and the Jedi
as Self
2018
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as DJ
2017
Viva
Executive Producer (Production)
2015
The Poet of Havana
as Self
2015
Sicario
as Alejandro Gillick
2015
A Perfect Day
as Mambrú
2015
The Little Prince
as The Snake (voice)
2015
Inherent Vice
as Sauncho Smilax, Esq.
2014
Guide to the Galaxy with James Gunn
as Self
2014
Escobar: Paradise Lost
as Pablo Escobar
2014
Guardians of the Galaxy
as The Collector
2014
Thor: The Dark World
as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited)
2013
Jimmy P.
as Jimmy Picard
2013
Savages
as Lado
2012
7 Days in Havana
Director (Directing)
2012
Somewhere
as Celebrity (uncredited)
2010
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
as Self
2010
The Wolfman
as Lawrence Talbot
2010
Making Che
as Self
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
Thanks (Crew)
2009
Che: Part Two
as Ernesto Che Guevara
2008
Che: Part One
as Ernesto Che Guevara
2008
Shine a Light
as Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)
2008
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Things We Lost in the Fire
as Jerry Sunborne
2007
Maldeamores
Executive Producer (Production)
2007
TV Shows (9)
New Heights
as Self
2022
What If...?
as The Collector (voice)
2021
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Escape at Dannemora
as Richard Matt
2018
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
Todos Contra Juan
as Benicio del Toro
2008