Benicio Del Toro

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Benicio Del Toro
OCCUPATION
Film Actor
BIRTH DATE
February 19, 1967 (age 51)
EDUCATION
Square Professional Theater School, University of California, San Diego
PLACE OF BIRTH
Santurce, Puerto Rico
ZODIAC SIGN
Pisces

Biography of Benicio Del Toro
Actor, Movie Actor (1967-)
Benicio Del Toro is an actor of Puerto Rican origin known for projects like 'The Usual Suspects', '21 Grams' and' Sicario ', as well as his Oscar-winning role in' Traffic '.
Who is Benicio Del Toro?
Born in Puerto Rico on February 19, 1967, Benicio Del Toro then entered the University of California at San Diego by law, but eventually moved to New York and studied theater. After his Academy Award for Traffic, Del Toro assumed other roles and was nominated for another Oscar as best supporting actor for 21 grams. Additional movies include The Pledge, Che's two parts, Guardians of the Galaxy and Sicario.

Early life
Benicio Del Toro was born on February 19, 1967 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Del Toro's mother died when he was 9 years old, and his family moved to a farm in Pennsylvania four years later. Del Toro enrolled at the University of California at San Diego after high school with the intention of becoming a lawyer. Instead, his love for acting (developed in drama classes for freshmen) led him to conduct a serious theatrical training. He moved to New York City, where he attended the professional theater school Circle in the Square before obtaining a scholarship to the famous Stella Adler Conservatory.

After appearing on guest shows on television shows like Miami Vice, Del Toro got his first film role, playing a circus artist named Duke the Dog-Faced Boy in Big Top Pee-Wee (1988), a vehicle of big screen for the forgetfulness. The manic alter ego of television by Paul Reubens, Pee-Wee Herman. Del Toro subsequently had small roles in the James Bond film, License to Kill (1989), starring Timothy Dalton, as well as in The Indian Runner (1991), Sean Penn's first effort as a director.


Advance role
During the following years, Del Toro made memorable performances in films such as Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), China Moon (1991), starring Ed Harris, and the independent favorite Swimming With Sharks (1994). However, he first garnered serious critical attention in 1995 for his role stealing scenes like Fred Fenster, the murmur, condemned to fashion in the acclaimed crime drama The Usual Suspects, starring Kevin Spacey and Gabriel Byrne. Del Toro won an Independent Spirit Award for the performances; it turned out to be the first of the two, since he got another one the following year for his turn of support in Basquiat, as the best friend of the titular artist (played by his favorite indie comrade Jeffrey Wright).

The first main role of Del Toro was in Excess Baggage (1997), which was criticized by critics, and starred Alicia Silverstone. The project did little to advance his promising career. It increased its weight in its next film, the little seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), in which it interpreted to Dr. Gonzo, the associate lawyer of the film star Johnny Depp like Hunter S. Thompson. Quaint journalist Another avant-garde offer, The Way of the Gun, 2000, also failed to click on the hearings.


Oscar for 'Traffic'
With the release of Traffic Saga, Steven Soderbergh's drug saga, in late 2000, Del Toro found himself in the midst of a virtual storm of critical acclaim and media attention. A highlight even among the film's impressive cast (including Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Don Cheadle), Del Toro's bilingual performance as Javier Rodríguez, a Mexican police officer, gave the actor a Golden Globe and a Academy Award for best supporting actor. . (The role was so central to the film that at the annual Screen Actors Guild honors, Del Toro took home the award for best actor, beating important men like Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks and Geoffrey Rush).

From 'Grams' to 'Galaxy'
In the first months of 2001, Del Toro was apparently ubiquitous; In addition to Traffic, he played the gangster Frankie Four Fingers in Snatch (late 2000), an adventure against crime directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Brad Pitt. He also appeared in Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001), starring Jack Nicholson, as a mentally disturbed Native American and wrongly condemned for the rape and murder of a girl.

Del Toro continued to assume challenging roles in the coming years. He played an ex-con born again at 21 grams (2003) with Naomi Watts and Penn, which earned Del Toro another Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. He then went on to portray a violent policeman in Sin City (2005), which was based on Frank Miller's graphic novels and was directed by Roberto Rodríguez. Additional films of this time include Things We Lost in The Fire (2007) and the one of two