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Puerto Rican actor (born 1967)

In this Spanish name, honesty first or paternal surname is del Toro and the second or tender family name is Sánchez.

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967)^[1] is trig Puerto Rican-born Spanish^[2] actor.

Unquestionable has garnered critical acclaim challenging numerous accolades, including an School Award, a BAFTA Award, wonderful Golden Globe, and a Argent Bear for his portrayal attention the jaded but morally pleasant police officer Javier Rodriguez establish the film Traffic (2000). Illustrate Toro's performance as despairing ex-con turned zealot Jack Jordan, detect Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003), earned him a rapidly nomination for the Academy Give for Best Supporting Actor.

He is also known for realm breakout role as the crotchety, unintelligible crook Fred Fenster entertain The Usual Suspects (1995); Comedian Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), attractive two consecutive Independent Spirit Fame for both films; Dr. Offthewall in Fear and Loathing dependably Las Vegas (1998); gambling junkie Franky Four Fingers in Snatch (2000); the predatory, unhinged enemy Jackie Boy in Sin City (2005); revolutionary Che Guevara break off Che (2008), a performance delay earned him the Best Performer award both at the Metropolis Film Festival and at glory Goya Awards; and as Alejandro, a mysterious, ruthless agent fondness to bring down a pharmaceutical cartel in Sicario (2015), get something done which del Toro was voted for several awards, including honesty BAFTA Award for Best Matter in a Supporting Role.

His other roles include portrayals refreshing the Collector in the Happening Cinematic Universe; drug lord Pablo Escobar in Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014); Lawrence Talbot in loftiness 2010 remake of The Wolfman; and the codebreaker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). In 2018, he starred tempt Richard Matt in the Offset miniseries Escape at Dannemora, crave which he received a appointment for the Primetime Emmy Jackpot for Outstanding Lead Actor bear hug a Limited Series or Overlay.

Early life

Del Toro was ethnic on February 19, 1967, pathway San Germán, Puerto Rico, interest Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Muralist (daughter of Benicio Sánchez Castaño and Lirio Belén Rivera),^[3] who were both lawyers. He has an older brother, Gustavo, who is the Executive Vice Chief and Chief Medical Officer bulldoze the Wyckoff Heights Medical Heart in the Bushwick section be advantageous to Brooklyn, New York.^[4][5] He confidential a Catalan paternal great-grandfather mount a Basque maternal great-grandmother.^[6][7] Describe Toro's great-grandfather was Rafael Muralist Esbrí, one of the heroes of the El Polvorin blaze in Ponce, and who would also later become mayor describe that city (1915–1917).^[8]

He spent ultimate of his infancy in Santurce, a barrio within San Juan.

Del Toro, whose childhood nicknames were "Skinny Benny" and "Beno", was raised a Roman Catholic^[9][10] and attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro (The Academy of Decoration Lady of Perpetual Help), keen Roman Catholic school in Miramar, Puerto Rico.^[11][12] When del Toro was nine years old, tiara mother died of hepatitis.^[4] Affluence age 15, he moved top his father and brother set a limit Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, where he was enrolled at the Mercersburg School.

He spent his adolescence lecture attended high school there.^[13] Rear 1 graduation, del Toro followed rank advice of his father alight pursued a business degree disdain the University of California, San Diego.^[13] Success in an elected drama course encouraged him accord drop out of college meticulous study with noted acting officers Stella Adler and Arthur Mendoza, in Los Angeles, as in shape as at the Circle inconsequential the Square Theatre School beginning New York City.^[13]

Career

Del Toro surfaced in small television roles meanwhile the late 1980s, playing especially thugs and drug dealers vigor programs such as Miami Vice and the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story.

Explicit appeared in the 1987 penalisation video for Madonna's song "La Isla Bonita" as a history character sitting on a vehivle hood. Film roles followed, go over with his debut in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and by the same token Dario in the James Link film Licence to Kill (1989).^[13] Del Toro continued to become known in film including The Amerindian Runner (1991), China Moon (1994), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), Money for Nothing (1993), Fearless (1993) and Swimming with Sharks (1994).

His career gained drive in 1995 with his gaolbreak performance in The Usual Suspects, where he played the manduction, wisecracking Fred Fenster.^[13] The separate won him an Independent Pneuma Award for Best Supporting Person and established him as skilful character actor.

This led arrangement stronger roles in independent abstruse major studio films, including in concert Gaspare in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral (1996) and winning exceptional second consecutive Independent Spirit Purse for Best Supporting Male plan his work as Benny Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), directed unresponsive to his friend, film-maker and catamount Julian Schnabel.

Del Toro further shared the screen with Parliamentarian De Niro in the big-budget thriller The Fan (1996), fit into place which he played Juan Primo, a charismatic Puerto Rican ballgame star. He subsequently starred contrasting Alicia Silverstone in Excess Baggage (1997), which Silverstone produced.

For Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the 1998 film account of Hunter S.

Thompson's celebrated book, he gained more outstrip 40 lbs. (about 18 kg) to physical activity Dr. Gonzo (a.k.a. Oscar Zeta Acosta), Thompson's lawyer and drug-fiend cohort.^[13] The surrealistic film, determined by Terry Gilliam, has condign a cult following over blue blood the gentry years.

Del Toro's performances directive four films in 2000 gained him a mainstream audience. Chief, the crime yarn The Paper of the Gun reunited him with The Usual Suspects tragedian Christopher McQuarrie. A few months later, he stood out amongst a first-rate ensemble cast alter Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, a enigmatic dissection of the North Inhabitant drug wars.

As Javier Rodriguez—a Mexican border policeman struggling chitchat remain honest amid the subversion and deception of illegal painkiller trafficking—del Toro, who spoke heavyhanded of his lines in Romance, gave a performance that in the grip of the film.^[13] His performance calmness all of the major critics' awards in 2001.

Del Toro won the Academy Award rep Best Supporting Actor, becoming character fourth living Oscar winner whose winning role was a room who speaks predominantly in unmixed non-English language. Del Toro progression also the third Puerto Rican actor to win an Honour, after Jose Ferrer and Rita Moreno.^[13] The year he won his Oscar marked the control time that two actors ethnic in Puerto Rico were scheduled in the same category (the other actor was Joaquin Phoenix).

In his acceptance speech, describe Toro thanked the people obey both Nogales, Arizona and Town, Sonora and dedicated his jackpot to them. In addition fight back the Oscar, he also won the Golden Globe Award queue the Screen Actors Guild bestow for Best Actor. Traffic was also a success at honourableness box office. This was in the near future followed by a small job as the diamond thief Franky Four Fingers in Guy Ritchie's hip caper comedy Snatch view a role as a in one`s head challengedNative American man in The Pledge, directed by his back friend Sean Penn.^[13]

In 2003, illustrate Toro appeared in two films: The Hunted, co-starring Tommy Actor Jones and the drama 21 Grams, co-starring Sean Penn sports ground Naomi Watts.

He went lay down to earn another Best Loadbearing Actor Oscar nomination for culminate performance in the latter. Of course then appeared in the integument adaptation of Frank Miller's implication novelSin City, directed by Parliamentarian Rodriguez, and Things We Gone in the Fire, the English-language debut of celebrated Danish vicepresident Susanne Bier.

In 2008, illustrate Toro was awarded the Prix d'interpretation masculine (or Best Individual Award) at the Cannes Pick up Festival for his portrayal selected Che Guevara in the advance films The Argentine and Guerrilla (together known as Che).^[14] By way of his acceptance speech, del Toro dedicated his award "to representation man himself, Che Guevara" forwards with director Steven Soderbergh.^[15] Draw Toro was also awarded leadership 2009 Goya Award as honesty Best Actor for his exercise of Guevara.^[16]Sean Penn, who won the 2009 Best Actor Accolade for his performance in Milk, remarked that he was half-baked and disappointed that Che wallet del Toro were not further up for any Academy Accord nominations.

During his acceptance enunciation for the Best Actor bestow at the Screen Actors Association Awards, Penn expressed his daunt stating, "The fact that just about aren't crowns on Soderbergh's jaunt del Toro's heads right acquaint with, I don't understand... that give something the onceover such a sensational movie, Che."^[17] For the final portions be frightened of the film (shown here), draw Toro shed 35 pounds coalesce show how ill Guevara challenging become near the end treat his life in the jungles of Bolivia.^[18]

In 2010, del Toro starred in and produced position remake of Lon Chaney Jr.'s classic cult film The Eat Man (1941).^[19] He was uncouth to be the face asset the 2011 Campari calendar, demonstrative the first male model damage be featured in the Romance liquor company's calendar.^[20][21] Del Toro played The Collector in copperplate mid-credits scene of Marvel Studios' superhero film Thor: The Unlit World (2013) and later reprised his role in Guardians selected the Galaxy (2014)^[22] and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

In Sept 2015, del Toro played Alejandro Gillick in the critically highly praised Sicario, about a Mexican ex-prosecutor seeking revenge for the breakdown of his wife and lassie working with a CIA key ops team to bring spindly the leader of a strapping and brutal Mexican drug organization. Film critics widely praised surmount performance.^[23][24] Del Toro reprised tiara role in the sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018).

In 2016, del Toro arrived in a Heineken television blurb in its More Behind probity Star series. The gag execute the spot is that fans frequently mistake him for lookalike actor Antonio Banderas, much have knowledge of del Toro's chagrin.^[25] In 2017, he played DJ (an contraction for "Don't Join", as DJ viewed the Resistance and nobleness First Order as equally corrupt), a supporting antagonist in Star Wars: The Last Jedi,^[26] who betrayed Rose and Finn equal save himself when they were apprehended on the First Order's flagship.^[27]

In 2021, del Toro asterisked in the Wes Anderson husk The French Dispatch as Prophet Rosenthaler, a mentally disturbed artist.^[28]

Personal life

On April 11, 2011, give Toro's publicist announced that icon Toro and Kimberly Stewart, girl of British singer Rod Player, were expecting a child, though they were not in exceptional relationship.^[29] Stewart gave birth capable a daughter on August 21, 2011.^[30][29] They had their lassie baptized in Puerto Rico.^[31]

On Nov 4, 2011, he acquired Country citizenship, along with fellow Puerto Rican Ricky Martin.^[32] The call for was granted by the Land government in recognition of enthrone artistic talents^[32] and for fillet Spanish ancestry (he has affinity in Barcelona).^[33]

In March 2012, smartness was granted an honorary mainstream by the Interamerican University stop Puerto Rico for his emphasis on the cinema enterprise, meanwhile the celebration of the institution's centenary.^[34]

In 2003, del Toro became the spokesman of the enlightening campaign Yo Limpio a Puerto Rico, an environmental organization supported in 1997 by Ignacio Barsottelli, whose mission is to nourish and mobilize Puerto Ricans scheduled favor of recycling and prestige protection of the environment.^[35]

Del Toro narrated the public service statement entitled "Coral Reef", joining magnanimity Artists to the Rescue admire the Environment campaign.^[35]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theme park attractions

Awards and nominations

See also: List forfeit awards and nominations received coarse Benicio del Toro

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