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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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| Born | Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (1967-02-19) February 19, 1967 (age 57) San Germán, Puerto Rico |
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| Education | University of California, San Diego |
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| 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
"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
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Benicio Del Toro: 1967—: Actor, Writer Biography
Benicio Del Toro: 1967—: Actor, writer.
Puerto Rican-born Benicio Del Toro has been called the Marlon Brando of his generation, a label he eschewed. "Everybody's like Brando," he told Harper's Bazaar. His own opinion notwithstanding, the tall, dark, somewhat mysterious actor has made his mark by fully inhabiting his various film roles, to critical and popular success. From his first major film, The Usual Suspects, Del Toro was recognized as a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. His Oscar-winning turn in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic cemented Del Toro's place as a significant actor in major motion pictures.
Del Toro was born February 19, 1967, in Santurce, Puerto Rico, the youngest of two sons of Gustavo, a prosperous lawyer, and, Fausta Del Toro, also a lawyer. His mother died when Benicio was just nine years old. "The performances I would do to make her laugh were probably my first acting efforts," Del Toro told the Miami Herald in 1997. "Incredibly, I took her death very well. When things like that happen at
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