Benicio del Toro — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

💥Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez. Born in 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Grew up in a family with an older brother. His parents worked as lawyers. He studied at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro in Puerto Rico. He works as an actor and producer. He was in a relationship with model Kimberly Stewart, and the couple has a daughter, Delilah. He prefers to keep his current personal life private.

🏆Main awards🏆: Oscar (2001) [Traffic], BAFTA (2001) [Traffic], Golden Globe (2001) [Traffic], Silver Bear (2001) [Traffic]

🎬Main projects🎬: "The Usual Suspects" (1995), "Traffic" (2000), "21 Grams" (2003), "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014), "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017)

⭐Interesting fact⭐: His family wanted Benicio to become a lawyer, and even after he won an Oscar, his relatives said he would have made an excellent lawyer.

Filmography

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2026 The Trap Slim

Interesting facts

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1
Translated from Spanish, the actor's surname means Bull.
2
On August 21, 2011, a baby girl was born to Benicio and Kimberly Stewart, daughter of Rod Stewart.
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Full name - Benicio Monserrat Rafael Del Toro Sanchez.
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Del Toro is the third Puerto Rican actor to be awarded an Oscar. The first two were José Ferrer (who received the award in 1950 for the film Cyrano de Bergerac) and Rita Moreno (who received the award in 1961 for the film West Side Story).
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In 1987, together with Heather Graham, the actor appeared in a commercial for the men's cologne Obsession.
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The actor had a relationship with Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. In addition, from 1988 to 1992 he was engaged to the Italian actress Valeria Golino, whom he met on the set of his very first film.