Del Toro received critical acclaim for his role as karate teacher and community leader Sergio St
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Benicio del Toro
Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Goya Award, and the Best Actor awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.9 billion worldwide.
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Born 19 February 1967 · Q193668
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Reptile review – Benicio Del Toro looms large in gruesomely ambitious noir
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2021· 1 entry
Del Toro starred in the Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch as Moses Rosenthaler, a mentally disturbed artist
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: 'Melania knew what she was putting on': Benicio Del Toro on drugs, Sicario and Trump's border war
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2017· 1 entry
Played DJ (an abbreviation for "Don't Join", as DJ viewed the Resistance and the First Order as equally corrupt), a supporting antagonist in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, who betrayed Rose and Finn to save himself when th
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2016· 1 entry
Del Toro appeared in a Heineken television advertisement in its More Behind the Star series
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (2014).
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2011· 1 entry
Acquired Spanish citizenship, along with fellow Puerto Rican Ricky Martin
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2010· 1 entry
Del Toro starred in and produced the remake of Lon Chaney Jr
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Che (2008).
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Del Toro was awarded the Prix d'interpretation masculine (or Best Actor Award) at the Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of Che Guevara in the biographical films The Argentine and Guerrilla (together known as Che)
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded International Cinephile Society Award for Best Supporting Actor for 21 Grams (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Del Toro became the spokesman of the educational campaign Yo Limpio a Puerto Rico, an environmental organization founded in 1997 by Ignacio Barsottelli, whose mission is to educate and mobilize Puerto Ricans in favor of
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Del Toro appeared in two films: The Hunted, co-starring Tommy Lee Jones and the drama 21 Grams, co-starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts
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2001· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Traffic (2001).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Traffic (2001).
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Earned Silver Bear for Best Actor for Traffic (2001).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Traffic (2001).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for Basquiat (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
With his breakout performance in The Usual Suspects, where he played the mumbling, wisecracking Fred Fenster
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1967· 2 entries
Born 1967-02-19.
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In the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera (daughter of Benicio Sánchez Castaño and Lirio Belén Rivera), who were both lawyers
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