Benicio del Toro

Success didn't come easily to award-winning Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. He experienced constant rejections in auditions for roles when he first started to pursue an acting career. It wasn't until he moved to Los Angeles that he started getting parts, starting with small ones in films like Big Top Pee Wee and eventually leading to a breakout role in The Usual Suspects. When he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in the movie Traffic, he was only the third Puerto Rican American to win an acting Oscar. Read all about del Toro in this full-color biography.