• Name: Benicio Del Toro
  
• Height: 6' 4"
  
• Sex: M
  
• Nationality: Puerto Rican
  
• Birth Date: February 19, 1967
  
• Birth Place: Santurce, Puerto Rico
  
• Profession: actor
  
• Education: Mercersburg Academy boarding school
  
•   : University of California in San Diego (majored in Business)
  
•   : Circle in the Square Acting School in New York
  
•   : Stella Adler Acting Conservatory in Los Angeles on scholarship
  
• Relationship: Claire Forlani (actress), Alicia Silverstone (actress), and Chiara Mastroianni.
  
• Father: Gustavo Del Toro (a lawyer)
  
• Mother: Fausta Sanchez-Del Toro (died in 1975 from hepatitis)
  
• Brother: Gustavo (a physician in the US; older)
  
• Claim to fame: as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects (1995)
  

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• "I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble."
• "My career went into the hole after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. People might have seen what saw on screen and subconsciously, people in the business might have taken what they saw literally. I think people thought, he got fat. He got weird. His mumbling increased tenfold. I was trying to do an interpretation of a masterpiece of a book, and that's what the character was - an animal!"
• "Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it."

• Independent Spirit Awards: Special Distinction Award (2004)
• Venice Film Festival: Audience Award - Best Actor, 21 GRAMS (2003)
• Sundance Film Festival: Tribute to Independent Vision Award (2002)
• Vancouver Film Critics Circle: Best Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Online Film Critics Society Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Screen Actors Guild: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Imagen Foundation Awards: Lasting Image Award (2001)
• Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Berlin International Film Festival: Best Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama, TRAFFIC (2001)
• British Academy Award: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2001)
• Toronto Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, TRAFFIC (2000)
• Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2000)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, TRAFFIC (2000)
• Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Sierra Award - Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2000)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2000)
• San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Best Supporting Actor, TRAFFIC (2000)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture, TRAFFIC (2000)
• Independent Spirit Awards: Best Supporting Male, BASQUIAT (1997)
• Independent Spirit Awards: Best Supporting Male, THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1996)
• National Board of Review: Best Ensemble Performance, THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995)

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