Benicio del Toro

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sanchez (born February 19, 1967) is an Oscar winning actor. He was born in San German, Puerto Rico and grew up in Santurce, a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico and spent his teens and attended High School in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh. His parents, Gustavo Adolfo del Toro Bermudez and Fausta Sanchez Rivera, were both lawyers. He has an older brother, also named Gustavo, who is a pediatric oncologist working in Manhattan.

Trivia

• In 2001, Del Toro became the fourth Oscar winner whose winning role was a character who speaks predominantly in a foreign language.