Biography
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, and Che...
Known For
Complete Filmography

One Battle After Another
2025
as Sensei Sergio
When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.

The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Zsa-zsa Korda
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon becom...

Teofilo: Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion
2025
as Narrator
Boxing's Most Revolutionary Champion.

Kill the Jockey
2024
Executive Producer
Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child o...

Reptile
2023
as Tom Nichols
Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, a...

Reptile
2023
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, a...

Bonnie
2022
as Self
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

The French Dispatch
2021
as Moses Rosenthaler
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student ri...

No Sudden Move
2021
as Ronald Russo
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple...

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
as Self
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the...

Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2019
as Swiper (voice)
Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Al...

Other Music
2019
as Self
A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village.

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
as Self - Actor
In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply...

Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Alejandro Gillick
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

Avengers: Infinity War
2018
as The Collector
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from ...

The Director and the Jedi
2018
as Self
An intimate documentary delving into Rian Johnson's process as he comes in as a director new to the Star Wars universe.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
as DJ
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resist...

Take Flight
2015
as Self - Performer
2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.

Viva
2015
Executive Producer
Jesús, a young hairdresser, works at a Havana nightclub for drag performers and dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, J...
The Poet of Havana
2015
as Self
Join internationally renowned Cuban singer, songwriter, and lyricist Carlos Varela as he celebrates his 30th anniversary as an artist.

Sicario
2015
as Alejandro Gillick
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexi...

A Perfect Day
2015
as Mambrú
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been...

The Little Prince
2015
as The Snake (voice)
Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency ...

Inherent Vice
2014
as Sauncho Smilax
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

Guide to the Galaxy with James Gunn
2014
as Self
The director and his 8-bit avatar lead you on a galactic adventure through the making of this epic movie, from vibrant concept art, elaborate makeup a...

Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
as Pablo Escobar
For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into t...

Escobar: Paradise Lost
2014
Executive Producer
For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into t...

Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
as The Collector
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Rona...

Thor: The Dark World
2013
as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector (uncredited)
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Fa...

Jimmy P.
2013
as Jimmy Picard
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military ...

Savages
2012
as Lado
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

7 Days in Havana
2012
Director
A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-...

Somewhere
2010
as Celebrity (uncredited)
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a vis...

The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
2010
as Self
In 1971, to get breathing room from tax and management problems, the Stones go to France. Jimmy Miller parks a recording truck next to Keith Richards ...

The Wolfman
2010
as Lawrence Talbot
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonl...

The Wolfman
2010
Producer
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonl...

Making Che
2010
as Self
Behind the scenes of Steven Soderbergh’s Che

Where the Wild Things Are
2009
Thanks
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—cr...

Che: Part Two
2008
as Ernesto Che Guevara
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...

Che: Part Two
2008
Producer
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...

Che: Part One
2008
as Ernesto Che Guevara
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobili...

Che: Part One
2008
Producer
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobili...

Shine a Light
2008
as Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)
Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorsese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at th...

The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry
2008
as Narrator (voice)
The Upsetter tells the fascinating story of Lee Scratch Perry a visionary musician and artist from poor rural Jamaica who journeyed to the big city of...

Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
as Jerry Sunborne
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the f...

Maldeamores
2007
Executive Producer
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love t...

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
as Self
A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood relationships. It captures the legacy and "gonzo" ...

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005
as Macro
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and fema...

Sin City
2005
as Jackie Boy
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it ...

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man
2004
as Self
First surfacing in 1954, the Gill-Man from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON has been one of the most influential screen monsters. This documentary fondl...

21 Grams: In Fragments
2004
as Self
A documentary on the making of 21 Grams (2003).

21 Grams
2003
as Jack Jordan
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of t...
Filming “The Hunted”
2003
as Self
Behind the scenes of The Hunted.
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003
as Self
Behind the scenes of The Hunted.
The Cutting Edge
2003
as Self
Behind the scenes of The Hunted.

Breakfast with Hunter
2003
as Self
Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Edited by director Wayne Ewing f...

Declaration of Independence
2003
as Self
Famous actors and actresses read the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

The Hunted
2003
as Aaron Hallam
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is appro...

Hunter Goes to Hollywood
2003
as Self
Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Bond Girls Are Forever
2002
as Dario (archive footage) (uncredited)
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...
Julia, toda en mí
2002
A poetic journey about the life and work of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
as Himself
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
as Self
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this...

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
2002
as Self
Featurette in which director Bryan Singer tells more about the mysterious criminal Keyser Soze.

Making 'Snatch'
2001
as Self
The making of Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch'.

The Pledge
2001
as Toby Jay Wadenah
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

Traffic
2000
as Javier Rodriguez
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self

Inside 'Licence to Kill'
2000
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film 'Licence to Kill'.

Bread and Roses
2000
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa ge...

The Way of the Gun
2000
as Mr. Longbaugh
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and...

Snatch
2000
as Franky Four Fingers
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down ...

Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
as Self
Behind the scenes of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
as Dr. Gonzo
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycl...

Joyride
1997
as Detective Lopez
A bored motel clerk and his buddies go for a little joy ride in a woman's car. They don't realize until it is too late that she is a paid assassin and...

Excess Baggage
1997
as Vincent
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.

Cannes Man
1997
as Self
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab d...

The Fan
1996
as Juan Primo
When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supporti...

Basquiat
1996
as Benny Dalmau
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

The Funeral
1996
as Gaspare
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

The Usual Suspects
1995
as Fenster
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...
Submission
1995
Director, Writer
Benicio del Toro's 1995 short film

Swimming with Sharks
1994
as Rex
Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a do...

China Moon
1994
as Lamar Dickey
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the...

Fearless
1993
as Manny Rodrigo
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike an...

Golden Balls
1993
as Bob, el amigo de Miami
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Money for Nothing
1993
as Dino Palladino
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. ...

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1992
as Alvaro Harana
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the un...

The Indian Runner
1991
as Miguel
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent...

Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
1990
as Kid Sitting on Car (segment "La Isla Bonita")
The Immaculate Collection is the first commercially released greatest videos compilation by singer Madonna. Released on November 13, 1990 to accompany...

Licence to Kill
1989
as Dario
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered...

Big Top Pee-wee
1988
as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front ya...

All-Star Weekend
N/A
as Dr. Phill
Two buddies form a rivalry over their favorite American basketball player.
The Corporation
N/A
as Jose Miguel Battle Sr.
A story of Jose Miguel Battle (a.k.a. the Godfather), the leader of an organized crime group, called "The Corporation", which was involved in illegal ...

Elysian Park and the Stone Quarry Hills
N/A
Narrated by Benicio del Toro, Ruscha’s film takes us on a journey through the space and history of Elysian Park. Like much of Los Angeles, Elysian Par...