The following year, Del Toro reteamed with Spacey in Bryan Singer's dizzying ensemble neo-noir "The Usual Suspects" (1995). He was cool and calm in his role as an assistant to a tyrannical film studio executive (Kevin Spacey) in the independent cult hit, "Swimming with Sharks" (1994). Penn helped jumpstart Del Toro's indie film career when he cast him in a supporting role in his directorial debut "The Indian Runner" (1991), starring a then-unknown Viggo Mortensen and David Morse as polar opposite brothers - one a lawman and one a criminal.In an uncharacteristically showy performance, Del Toro played a nasty, rebellious sailor in the big budget "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" (1992), before making a supporting appearance as the husband of an air disaster survivor (Rosie Perez) in "Fearless" (1993), from Peter Weir. In the grittiest of his television roles, Del Toro played a brutally menacing drug lord in the Emmy-winning miniseries, "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" (NBC, 1990), where he caught the eye of budding film director Sean Penn. His first film appearance was as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy in "Big Top Pee-Wee" (1988), while the following year, Del Toro had the honor of being cast as a James Bond villain in "License to Kill" (1989).
BENICIO DEL TORO DRUG WARS THE CAMARENA STORY SERIES
Heading to L.A., Del Toro trained further at the Actors Circle Theater and began to break into the business with many guest appearances as knife and gun-wielding thugs in series such as "Miami Vice" (NBC, 1984-89). He quit school and moved to New York where he trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory and the Circle in the Square Theatre School.
Having had two lawyer parents, Del Toro enrolled at the University of California at San Diego with the intention of becoming a lawyer himself until a freshman acting class led him to alter his career path. Born in Puerto Rico Del Toro spent his first 13 years in his native country until the family moved to a Pennsylvania farm in the wake of his mother's death.
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