Benicio Del Toro Biography

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.
Benicio Del Toro attended Academia del Perpetuo Socorro (The Academy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help) a Roman Catholic school in Miramar Puerto Rico. When he was nine years old his mother died of hepatitis. At age 13 his father moved his family to Mercersburg Pennsylvania near Chambersburg where Benicio was enrolled in Mercersburg Academy a boarding school.
After graduation Del Toro followed the advice of his father and pursued a practical degree in business at the University of California San Diego. Success in an elective drama course encouraged him to drop out of college and study with noted acting teacher Stella Adler in Los Angeles as well as at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York. Benicio hid his new career goals from his family until roles began to come his way.
He began to surface in small television parts during the late 1980s playing mostly thugs and drug dealers on programs like Miami Vice and the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Kiki Camarena Story. Work in films followed beginning with his debut in Big Top Pee-wee and in the 007 film Licence to Kill in which 21-year-old Benicio held the distinction of being the youngest actor ever to play a Bond villain.

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