Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro S\u00e1nchez (Latin American Spanish:\u00a0[be\u02c8nisjo\u00a0\u00f0el\u00a0\u02c8to\u027eo]; born February 19, 1967)\u00a0is a\u00a0Puerto Rican\u00a0actor.\u00a0His accolades\u00a0include an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0BAFTA Award, a\u00a0Golden Globe, a\u00a0Goya Award, a\u00a0Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a\u00a0Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n
Del Toro made his film debut in\u00a0Big Top Pee-wee (1988) before his breakout role playing an unintelligible crook in the crime thriller\u00a0The Usual Suspects\u00a0(1995), followed by roles in\u00a0Basquiat (1996),\u00a0Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u00a0(1998), and\u00a0Snatch\u00a0(2000). He received the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor\u00a0for his role as a morally upright police officer in the\u00a0Steven Soderbergh\u00a0crime drama\u00a0Traffic\u00a0(2000). He was nominated in the same category for his role as an ex-con in\u00a0Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu’s thriller\u00a021 Grams\u00a0(2003). He has since acted in\u00a0Sin City (2005),\u00a0Che\u00a0(2008),\u00a0Savages\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Inherent Vice (2014),\u00a0Sicario\u00a0(2015),\u00a0No Sudden Move\u00a0(2021), and\u00a0One Battle After Another\u00a0(2025).\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also took on franchise roles such as\u00a0Lawrence Talbot\u00a0in\u00a0The Wolfman\u00a0(2010), the\u00a0Collector\u00a0in three films from 2013 to 2018 in the\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe, and DJ, the codebreaker, in\u00a0Star Wars: The Last Jedi\u00a0(2017). He also acted in the\u00a0Wes Anderson\u00a0films\u00a0The French Dispatch\u00a0(2021) and\u00a0The Phoenician Scheme\u00a0(2025). On television, he portrayed\u00a0Richard Matt\u00a0in the\u00a0Showtime\u00a0miniseries\u00a0Escape at Dannemora\u00a0(2018), for which he received a nomination for the\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.<\/p>\n
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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro S\u00e1nchez (Latin American Spanish:\u00a0[be\u02c8nisjo\u00a0\u00f0el\u00a0\u02c8to\u027eo]; born February 19, 1967)\u00a0is a\u00a0Puerto Rican\u00a0actor.\u00a0His accolades\u00a0include an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0BAFTA Award, a\u00a0Golden Globe, a\u00a0Goya Award, a\u00a0Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a\u00a0Silver Bear. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide. Del Toro made his film debut in\u00a0Big Top Pee-wee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-26662","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n