El diecinueve de febrero/February 19th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Benicio del Toro (Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez)! (1967- ) "Lo importante es tratar. Tratar con ganas." -Benicio del Toro Photo from vanityfair.com. Click HERE . A Puerto Rican actor and director with Spanish roots (he has a great grandfather from both the Basque country and Catalonia, and he has held dual Spanish citizenship since 2012), del Toro had his breakout role as Fred Fenster in the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects. He has been in multiple movies since, including The Fan (with Robert DeNiro), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Traffic (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), 21 Grams, Che, Sicario, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (see him talk about his role in the movie on Telemundo's show Un Nuevo Día, HERE ). Born in Puerto Rico to two lawyer parents, del Toro lost his mother when he was nine, and he soon after moved with his father and brothers to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, whe...