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Benicio del Toro has won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Goya Award, and Best Actor prizes at both the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival. He won the Oscar for his role as Mexican border policeman Javier Rodriguez in Traffic in 2000.
Benicio del Toro was born on the 19th of February 1967 in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He spent most of his early childhood in Santurce before moving with his father and brother to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania at age fifteen.
Del Toro's breakout role was playing Fred Fenster, a mumbling and wisecracking crook, in the 1995 crime thriller The Usual Suspects. The performance won him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and established him as a character actor.
Del Toro gained more than 40 pounds, approximately 18 kilograms, to play Dr. Gonzo in the 1998 film. The character was based on Oscar Zeta Acosta, the lawyer and drug-fiend companion of Hunter S. Thompson.
Del Toro played the Collector, whose full name is Taneleer Tivan, in three Marvel Cinematic Universe films from 2013 to 2018. He first appeared in a mid-credits scene in Thor: The Dark World before reprising the role in Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers: Infinity War.
Yes, Benicio del Toro is Puerto Rican and was born in San Juan. He was the third Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, after Jose Ferrer and Rita Moreno. He also acquired Spanish citizenship in 2011 in recognition of his artistic work and Spanish ancestry.