“Reptiles” has become a Netflix movie, where everything we see is not what it seems. Although the investigation of a brutal murder continues, we will soon find ourselves with a complex network of deceptions, just as happened to Tom Nichols, a veteran police officer who seeks to solve a crime. The role of this detective is played by Benicio del Toro, due to his great performance, we will tell you who he is and more information about this renowned actor.
It should be noted that in the plot, this police officer encounters several suspects, so in his desire to discover the truth, he uncovers a web of lies, falsehoods and traps; He even dismantles the illusions of his own life.
WHO IS BENICIO DEL TORO?
Benicio del Toro is a Puerto Rican actor and producer.. His magnificent performances have led him to win an Oscar Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globeamong others.
The actor’s parents are: Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermúdez and Fausta Genoveva Sánchez Rivera, both lawyers. He has an older brother who is a pediatric oncologist. When Benicio was nine years old, he lost his mother due to hepatitis..
At the age of 13, with his father and brother, he moved to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania., USA. He graduated from Mercersburg Academy. Guided by his father, Benicio del Toro studied Commerce at the University of California.
After being successful in an acting course, he did not hesitate and decided to leave his university career to pursue acting in Los Angeles; Likewise, he was at the Square Theater School in New York.
He began in the world of acting in the late 1980s with small roles in television series. In its beginnings He almost always had roles as a thug or a trafficker..
Benicio del Toro appeared in Madonna’s video clip “La Isla Bonita”, exactly the young man who appears sitting on a car (his face is seen in minutes 3:05-07, 3:13-15 and 3:24-25 )
“You have to start somewhere and I did it as an extra. She was 19 years old and they were asking for extras for a Madonna video. “I said yes and they put me there to dance sitting on top of a car.”he noted in an interview for Jimmy Fallon’s show.
He made his film debut with “Big Top Pee-wee” and “License to Kill”, becoming at 21 years old the youngest actor with a villain role in a James Bond film. Although both films were not well received, he continued with several productions until 1995. His career began to take off with “The Usual Suspects”with which he won the Independent Spirit Award for best supporting actor, an award he repeated with “The Funeral.”
From 1998 onwards, Benicio del Toro was part of the main cast of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, “Traffic” (2020), “21 Grams” (2003), “Sin City” (2005), “Che, Guerrilla” (2008), “Savages” (2012), “Inherent Vice” (2014), “Escobar: Paradise Lost” (2014), “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” (2018), among other productions.
He has won several awards, including: an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor for “Traffic”all in 2000. In 2001, with the same film he received an award at the Berlin International Film Festival in the category Best Male Performance.
MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BENICIO DEL TORO
- Benicio del Toro has a daughter with Kimberly Stewart, who in turn is the daughter of Rod Stewar. Her name is Delilah Genoveva born on August 21, 2011. They were never a couple.
- Del Toro is the first cousin of the singer Rebeca Pous, Spanish pop-eurodance singer. Due to her Spanish ancestry, she obtained Spanish nationality in 2011.
BENICIO DEL TORO DATA
- Full name: Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez
- Place of birth: San German, Puerto Rico
- Nationality: Puerto Rican
- Birthday: February 19th
- Year of birth: 1967
- Age: 56 years
- Instagram: @benicio_del_toro1