
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.
TV Shows(22)

What If...?
The Collector (voice)

The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self

Escape at Dannemora
Richard Matt

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest

Todos Contra Juan
Benicio del Toro

The Graham Norton Show
Self

Icons

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest

The View
Self

The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self

Inside the Actors Studio
Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest

Fallen Angels
Paco

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
Caro Quintero

Tales from the Crypt
Bill

Miami Vice
Pito

Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)