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Benicio del Toro

Puerto Rican actor (born 1967)

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

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Del Toro in 2014
Born	Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (1967-02-19) February 19, 1967 (age 57) San Germán, Puerto Rico
Citizenship
Education	University of California, San Diego
Occupations
Years active	1987–present
Children	1
Awards	Full list

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967)^[1] is a Puerto Rican-Spanish actor. He has garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Silver Bear for his portrayal of the jaded but morally upright police officer Javier Rodriguez in the film Traffic (2000). Del Toro's performance as despairing ex-con turned zealot Jack Jordan, in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams (2003), earned him a second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He is also known for his

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Benicio del Toro Biography

Date of Birth:
Feb 19, 1967Birth Place:
Santurce, Puerto Rico

Biography

Having emerged from the fertile world of 1990s independent film as one of its most compelling performers, Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro made the jump to studio films and became known for playing brooding, tortured souls in a wide array of projects. Del Toro first earned considerable praise as the mumbling Fenster in Bryan Singer's enigmatic ensemble crime drama "The Usual Suspects" (1995), and went on to a number of supporting roles in films like "The Fan" (1996), "Basquiat" (1996), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998) and "Snatch" (2000). The actor broke through in a big way by winning the Oscar for his performance as a conflicted Mexican police detective caught between corrupt cops and drug cartels in Stephen Soderbergh's epic crime thriller "Traffic" (2000). From there, he delivered one of his best turns as an ex-con whose rebuilt life is shattered after causing a fatal car accident in Alejandro González Iñárritu's dark character drama "21 Grams" (20

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Benicio Del Toro - Biography

"I don't think my dad is really convinced [about my career]," said Benicio Del Toro with his leonine hair and the sleepy, intense eyes. "He's a lawyer, and I'm very close to my godmother, who's a lawyer, too. They're always going, 'You get up at 11am every day. If you got up at 8am and went to school, you could study law, little by little. You could be a great lawyer." But Benicio del Toro is a great actor in fact, he's already got an Oscar on the mantelpiece to prove it.

Early life

Born in Puerto Rico on February 19, 1967, the younger son of two lawyers, Benicio moved to Pennsylvania in the late Seventies, after his mother died of hepatitis. Although his first loves were basketball and acting, the teenager decided to follow in the family footsteps and won a place at the University of California in San Diego to study business. But after he won a part in an on-campus play, he was forced to change his subjects, as he wouldn't have been allowed to perform unless he declared himself a drama stu