Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967)
is a Puerto Rican actor and producer.[a] He has garnered critical
acclaim and numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award,
BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his
portrayal of the jaded but morally upright police officer Javier
Rodriguez in the film Traffic (2000). Del Toro's performance as ex-con
turned religious fanatic in despair, Jack Jordan, in Alejandro
González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003) earned him a second Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a second Screen
Actors Guild Awards nomination and a BAFTA Awards nomination for Best
Actor in a Leading Role.He is also known for his scene-stealing
breakout role as the eccentric, unintelligible crook Fred Fenster in
The Usual Suspects (1995), which won him his first Independent Spirit
Award; Benny Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), which won him a second
consecutive Independent Spirit Award; Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas (1998); gambling addict Franky Four Fingers in Snatch
(2000); the predatory, unhinged antagonist Jackie Boy in Sin City
(2005); revolutionary Che Guevara in Che (2008), a performance which
earned him the Best Actor Award both at the Cannes Film Festival, and
at the Goya Awards; and as Alejandro, a mysterious, ruthless agent out
to bring down a drug cartel in Sicario (2015), for which del Toro won
several awards, including the Chicago Film Critics Association Award
for Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for a third BAFTA
Award.His noteworthy body of work also includes portrayals of the
Collector in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, infamous drug lord Pablo
Escobar in Escobar: Paradise Lost, Lawrence Talbot in the 2010 remake
of The Wolfman, and codebreaker DJ in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In
2018, he starred as Richard Matt in the Showtime miniseries Escape at
Dannemora, for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
is a Puerto Rican actor and producer.[a] He has garnered critical
acclaim and numerous accolades and awards, including an Academy Award,
BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his
portrayal of the jaded but morally upright police officer Javier
Rodriguez in the film Traffic (2000). Del Toro's performance as ex-con
turned religious fanatic in despair, Jack Jordan, in Alejandro
González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003) earned him a second Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a second Screen
Actors Guild Awards nomination and a BAFTA Awards nomination for Best
Actor in a Leading Role.He is also known for his scene-stealing
breakout role as the eccentric, unintelligible crook Fred Fenster in
The Usual Suspects (1995), which won him his first Independent Spirit
Award; Benny Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), which won him a second
consecutive Independent Spirit Award; Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas (1998); gambling addict Franky Four Fingers in Snatch
(2000); the predatory, unhinged antagonist Jackie Boy in Sin City
(2005); revolutionary Che Guevara in Che (2008), a performance which
earned him the Best Actor Award both at the Cannes Film Festival, and
at the Goya Awards; and as Alejandro, a mysterious, ruthless agent out
to bring down a drug cartel in Sicario (2015), for which del Toro won
several awards, including the Chicago Film Critics Association Award
for Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for a third BAFTA
Award.His noteworthy body of work also includes portrayals of the
Collector in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, infamous drug lord Pablo
Escobar in Escobar: Paradise Lost, Lawrence Talbot in the 2010 remake
of The Wolfman, and codebreaker DJ in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In
2018, he starred as Richard Matt in the Showtime miniseries Escape at
Dannemora, for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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