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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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | One Battle After Another | Sensei Sergio St. Carlos | HIT | |
| 2025 | The Phoenician Scheme | Zsa-zsa Korda | HIT | |
| 2023 | Reptile | Tom Nichols | HIT | |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Moses Rosenthaler | HIT | |
| 2021 | No Sudden Move | Ronald Russo | FLOP | |
| 2019 | Dora and the Lost City of Gold | Swiper (voice) | HIT | |
| 2019 | Other Music | Self | HIT | |
| 2018 | Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Alejandro Gillick | HIT | |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | The Collector | HIT | |
| 2018 | The Director and the Jedi | Self | HIT | |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | DJ | HIT | |
| 2015 | Sicario | Alejandro Gillick | HIT | |
| 2015 | A Perfect Day | Mambrú | HIT | |
| 2015 | The Little Prince | The Snake (voice) | HIT | |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | Sauncho Smilax, Esq. | HIT | |
| 2014 | Guide to the Galaxy with James Gunn | Self | HIT | |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | The Collector | HIT | |
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited) | HIT | |
| 2010 | The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile | Self | HIT | |
| 2008 | Che: Part Two | Ernesto Che Guevara | HIT | |
| 2008 | Che: Part One | Ernesto Che Guevara | HIT | |
| 2008 | Shine a Light | Self - Concert Audience (uncredited) | HIT | |
| 2008 | The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry | Narrator (voice) | HIT | |
| 2007 | Things We Lost in the Fire | Jerry Sunborne | HIT | |
| 2006 | Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Self | HIT | |
| 2005 | Sin City | Jackie Boy | HIT | |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self | HIT | |
| 2004 | Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man | Self | HIT | |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | Jack Jordan | HIT | |
| 2003 | Breakfast with Hunter | Self | HIT | |
| 2003 | Declaration of Independence | Self | HIT | |
| 2003 | Hunter Goes to Hollywood | Self | HIT | |
| 2002 | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Self | HIT | |
| 2002 | Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette | Self | HIT | |
| 2001 | Making 'Snatch' | Self | FLOP | |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Toby Jay Wadenah | HIT | |
| 2000 | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez | HIT | |
| 2000 | Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic' | Self | HIT | |
| 2000 | Inside 'Licence to Kill' | Self | HIT | |
| 2000 | Snatch | Franky Four Fingers | HIT | |
| 1998 | Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Self | HIT | |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Dr. Gonzo | HIT | |
| 1996 | Basquiat | Benny Dalmau | HIT | |
| 1996 | The Funeral | Gaspare | HIT | |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Fenster | HIT | |
| 1994 | Swimming with Sharks | Rex | HIT | |
| 1993 | Fearless | Manny Rodrigo | HIT | |
| 1991 | The Indian Runner | Miguel | HIT | |
| 1990 | Madonna: The Immaculate Collection | Kid Sitting on Car (segment "La Isla Bonita") | HIT | |
| 1989 | Licence to Kill | Dario | FLOP |