Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. He is known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects, Javier Rodríguez in Traffic (his Oscar-winning role), Jack 'Jackie Boy' Rafferty in Sin City, Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Franky Four Fingers in Snatch, Che Guevara in Che, and most recently as Lawrence Talbot in The Wolfman. He is the third Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
Benicio del Toro was born and grew up in Santurce, Puerto Rico, a district of San Juan. He is the son of Gustavo Gomez del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, who were both lawyers, del toro also has a daughter named Maryam Del Toro from his ex wife. He has an older brother, Gustavo, who is a pediatric oncologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
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