Benicio Del Toro

At 57 years old, Benicio Del Toro has this physical status:

Career

Del Toro appeared on small television roles in the late 1980s, mostly thugs and opioid dealers on shows such as Miami Vice and the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story. He appeared in the 1987 music video for Madonna's album "La Isla Bonita" as a background figure sitting on a car hood. Film appearances followed, beginning with his debut in Big Top Pee (1988) and as Dario in James Bond's Licence to Kill (1989), in which the young actor who was not a primary henchman. Del Toro continued to appear in films including The Indian Runner (1991), China Moon (1994), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1993), Fearless (1993), and Swimming with Sharks (1994).

His career began in 1995 with his appearance in The Usual Suspects, where he portrayed the mumbling, wisecracking Fred Fenster. He was given an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and established him as a character actor in the role. This resulted in increased role in independent and major studio films, including playing Gaspare in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral (1996) and winning his second consecutive Independent Spirit Award for his role as Benny Dalmau in Basquiat (1996), directed by his friend, film-maker, and painter Julian Schnabel. In the big-budget thriller The Fan (1996), Del Toro also appeared on film with Robert De Niro, in which he played Juan Primo, a charismatic Puerto Rican baseball player. He appeared in Excess Baggage (1997), which Silverstone produced, he later starred opposite Alicia Silverstone.

He gained more than 40 pounds in Las Vegas, the 1998 film version of Hunter S. Thompson's famous book Fear and Loathing. Dr. Gonzo (about 18 kg) will play (a.k.a. Oscar Zeta Acosta, Thompson's counsel and drug-fiend cohort. Terry Gilliam's cult film has a following over the years.

Del Toro's appearances in four films in 2000 brought him a large audience. The Way of the Gun reunites him with screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie of The Usual Suspects. In Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, a complicated dissection of the North American drug wars, he stood out among a first-rate ensemble cast. Del Toro, a Mexican border policeman struggling to remain honest amid rampant drug trafficking's deception and deception, gave the most convincing performance in the film. In 2001, his success captured all of the major critics' awards. Del Toro was named the best Supporting Actor by the Academy, making him the fourth living Oscar winner of a story in non-English language. After Jose Ferrer and Rita Moreno, Del Toro is now the third Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy. He received his Oscar in the first year (the other actor was Joaquin Phoenix). del Toro thanked the people of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora in his acceptance address, naming their names. In addition to the Oscar, he also received the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actor Guild Award for Best Actor. Traffic in the box office was also a hit. In Guy Ritchie's hip caper comedy Snatch, Franky Four Fingers starred a young Native American man and played a minor role as a physically impaired Native American man in The Pledge, directed by his old friend Sean Penn, this was followed shortly by a small part.

del Toro appeared in two films in 2003: The Hunted, co-starring Tommy Lee Jones, and The Drama 21 Grams, co-starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. For his role in the latter, he went on to receive his second Best Support Actor Oscar nomination. He appeared in Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and Things We Lost in the Fire, the English-language debut of celebrated Danish director Susanne Bier.

Del Toro was honoured with the Prix d'interprétation masculine (or Best Actor Award) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for his portrayal of Che Guevara in the biographical films The Argentine and Guerrilla (also known as Che). Together with director Steven Soderbergh, del Toro dedicated his award "to the man himself, Che Guevara." Del Toro was also named the Best Actor for his portrayal of Guevara. Sean Penn, who received the 2009 Best Actor Award for his role in Milk, expressed surprise and dissatisfaction with Che and del Toro's inability for any Academy Award nominations. "The fact that there aren't crowns on Soderbergh and del Toro's heads right now, I'm dismay," Penn said during his acceptance address for the Screen Actor Guild Awards, "I don't know" is such a fantastic film. Del Toro lost 35 pounds in the last scenes of the film (shown here) to illustrate how ill Guevara was getting before the end of his life in Bolivia's jungles.

In 2010, del Toro appeared in and produced the remake of Lon Chaney Jr.'s classic cult film The Wolf Man (1941). He was selected to be the face of the 2011 Campari calendar, becoming the first male model to be featured in the Italian liquor company's calendar. Del Toro appeared as The Collector in a mid-credit scene of Marvel Studios' superhero film Thor: The Dark World (2013) and then reprised his role in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

Del Toro played Alejandro Gillick in the critically acclaimed Sicario, a principled FBI agent enlisted by a government task force to bring down a leader of a wealthy and brutal Mexican drug cartel. His role was lauded by film critics worldwide. Del Toro reprised his role in the sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018). In 2016, del Toro appeared in a Heineken television commercial in its More Behind the Star film. Fans often mistakenly identify him for fellow actor Antonio Banderas, much to del Toro's chagrin. As DJ regarded the Resistance and the First Order as equally corrupt, he acted DJ (an abbreviation for "Don't Join"), a supporting antagonist in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, who betrayed Rose and Finn to save himself when they were notified on the First Order's flagship, and he played DJ (an abbreviation for "Don't Join).

In 2021, del Toro appeared in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch as Moses Rosenthaler, a mentally impaired artist.

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