Benicio del Toro (born February 19, 1967)[1] is an Puerto Rican actor, director and producer[2] naturalized Spanish in 2011. He began a film career in the late 1980s, with one of his first roles being that of Dario, a psychopathic henchman and assassin in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill, opposite the British actor Timothy Dalton. Del Toro's likeness was later used in the 2012 video-game 007 Legends. The actor is now internationally renowned and has appeared in a number of films, including The Usual Suspects (1995), Traffic (2000) (for which he received numerous awards for his performance), Sin City (2005), Che (2008), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Sicario (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
Trivia[]
- Benicio del Toro is the second Oscar-winning actor to have played a villain in a James Bond film, the others being Christopher Walken (Max Zorin), Javier Bardem (Raoul Silva), Christoph Waltz (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) and Rami Malek (Lyutsifer Safin).
External Links[]
- Benicio Del Toro at the Internet Movie Database.
- Benicio del Toro on Wikipedia
References[]
- ↑ This Is My Life: Benicio Del Toro - Memories of a bittersweet childhood. Gabriel de Lerma. The Miami Herald - El Nuevo Herald. 10 October 1997. Accessed 27 November 2020.
- ↑ Puente, Maria (November 4, 2011). Oscar winner Benicio del Toro, singer Ricky Martin become Spanish citizens. USA Today.