Guillermo Toledo

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Guillermo Toledo
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Toledo at the 2021 Gaudí Awards
Born
Guillermo Toledo Monsalve

(1970-05-22) 22 May 1970 (age 54)
Madrid, Spain
Education Colegio Estilo
Years active1995–present

Guillermo Toledo Monsalve (born 22 May 1970), also known as Willy Toledo, is a Spanish actor and theatre producer. He gained popularity in Spain for his television role as Richard in sitcom 7 vidas from 1999 to 2002, [1] [2] advancing further public recognition for performances in films such as The Other Side of the Bed (2002), Football Days (2003), and Ferpect Crime (2004). [3]

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Besides his acting career, he is also noted as a polemicist and for his political activism. [4] [2] He has claimed to suffer a veto by the Spanish film and television industry limiting his job opportunities due to his off-screen activities. [5]

Biography

Guillermo Toledo Monsalve was born in Madrid on 22 May 1970, [4] to a well-off family, son of a prestigious surgeon pioneer in thoracic surgery. [6] [2] He studied at the Colegio Estilo in El Viso. [6] He trained as an actor in Spain and the United States. [2]

He made his feature film debut in You Shall Die in Chafarinas . [7] Together with Alberto San Juan, Nathalie Poza and Ernesto Alterio, Toledo founded in 1996 the theatrical group Ración de oreja, which presented the theatrical staging Animalario. [8] Ración de oreja later merged with Andrés Lima's Riesgo to create the theatre company Animalario  [ es ], named after Ración de oreja's debut work. [9]

His breakout role came in 1999 with his performance as 'Richard' in the television series 7 Vidas from 1999 to 2002. [2]

His performance in the 2002 musical film El otro lado de la cama earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor, [10] whereas his performance in Álex de la Iglesia's Crimen ferpecto (2004) earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Actor. [11]

After years of an alleged "veto" of the Spanish film and TV industry on granting roles to Toledo, Toledo returned to fiction in the Netflix's series The Minions of Midas , [12] premiered in November 2019.

Activism

He was noted for his activism in Spain against the Iraq War and for his support to the Sahrawi liberation movement. [4] Distinguished as deliverer of controversial statements and for the "disrespectful" way of defending them, [2] he has also voiced himself in favour of the Cuban regime, against the Spanish monarchy, against Podemos and against La Sexta. [2]

Toledo was arrested for allegedly causing "damage" during the 29 March 2012 Spanish general strike  [ es ]. [2] He was released and the case against him was closed. [2]

In November 2020, he was acquitted after being tried for blasphemy by the Catholic far-right lobby Abogados Cristianos, after writing a Facebook post "shitting on god and the virgin" as way of criticising the opening of oral proceedings against three women who in 2014 paraded a large vagina in Seville under the banner "The Unsubmissive Pussy". [13] [14] [15] [2]

He appeared in the last position of the list of the CUP-led electoral list Guanyem for the 2023 local elections in Badalona. It is a show of symbolic support, it would be improbable that he became a councilor. [16]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotesRef.
1995 Morirás en Chafarinas Film debut [17]
1995 La Ley de la frontera [18]
1998 Mensaka Ricardo [19]
1999 Se buscan fulmontis  [ es ]El Réfor [20]
1999 La mujer más fea del mundo (The Ugliest Woman in the World)Lafuente [21]
1999 La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue)O'Lis [22]
2000 El otro barrio (The Other Side)Vicente [23]
2000 La espalda de Dios  [ es ]El sapo [24]
2001 Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas  [ es ] [25]
2001 Juana la Loca (Mad Love)Capitán Corrales [26]
2001 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Onecen [27]
2001 Intacto Horacio [28]
2002 El otro lado de la cama (The Other Side of the Bed)Pedro [29]
2003 Al sur de Granada (South from Granada)Paco [30]
2003 El misterio Galíndez Ricardo [31]
2004 Las voces de la noche (Voices in the Night) [32]
2004 El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo Pelayo [33]
2004 Seres queridos Rafi [34]
2004 Crimen ferpecto (The Ferpect Crime)Rafael González [35]
2006 Los 2 lados de la cama Pedro [36]
2007 Salir pitando  [ es ]José Luis Ratón Pérez [37]
2008 Santos El antropomosco [38]
2008 La buena nueva (The Good News)Antonino [39]
2009 After Julio [40]
2010 Desechos  [ es ] [41]
2012 Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited!)Ricardo Galán [42]
2013 Diamantes negros  [ ca ] [43]
2014 Historias de Lavapiés Ernesto [44]
2018 Black Is Beltza Teniente MuñozVoice work [45]

Television

YearFilmRoleNotesRef.
2020 Los favoritos de Midas (The Minions of Midas)Inspector Conte [46]
2023 Todas las veces que nos enamoramos  [ es ] (In Love All Over Again)Pablo [47]
El grito de las mariposas (The Cry of the Butterflies)Asier Oyamburu [48]
Romancero Teodoro [49]

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