Benicio del Toro

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 59 billion worldwide Del Toro made his film debut in Big Top Peewee 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 excon in Alejandro González Iñárritus 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia