Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award for his role as Javier Rodríguez in Traffic . He is also known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects , Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Franky Four Fingers in Snatch , Jackie Boy in Sin City , and Che Guevara in Che . He is the third Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award. Benicio del Toro was born in San German, on the southwest side of the island of Puerto Rico, and grew up in... Santurce, a district of San Juan. He is the son of Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, who were both lawyers. He has an older brother, Gustavo, who was a pediatric oncologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He is of Spanish descent through a Catalan paternal great-grandfather and a Basque maternal great-grandmother, as well as of Italian and American ancestry. The family del Toro are of Sephardic origin.
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| Birthdate: | February 19, 1967 |
| Birthplace: | Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Age: | 45 |
| Height: | 6' 1" |
| Education: | Mercersburg Academy, Circle in the Square Theatre School |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
| Also known as: | Benicio Monserrate Rafael Del Toro Sanchez, Beno, Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez |