Summary
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]
Guillermo Toledo | |
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 Toledo at the 2021 Gaudí Awards | |
| Born | Guillermo Toledo Monsalve 22 May 1970 Madrid, Spain |
| Education | Colegio Estilo |
| Years active | 1995–present |
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 edit
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, 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 edit
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.[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 edit
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Film edit
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Morirás en Chafarinas | Film debut | [17] | |
| 1995 | La Ley de la frontera | [18] | ||
| 1998 | Mensaka | Ricardo | [19] | |
| 1999 | Se buscan fulmontis | 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 | El sapo | [24] | |
| 2001 | Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas | [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 | 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 | [41] | ||
| 2012 | Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited!) | Ricardo Galán | [42] | |
| 2013 | Diamantes negros | [43] | ||
| 2014 | Historias de Lavapiés | Ernesto | [44] | |
| 2018 | Black Is Beltza | Teniente Muñoz | Voice work | [45] |
Television edit
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Los favoritos de Midas (The Minions of Midas) | Inspector Conte | [46] | |
| 2023 | Todas las veces que nos enamoramos (In Love All Over Again) | Pablo | [47] | |
| El grito de las mariposas (The Cry of the Butterflies) | Asier Oyamburu | [48] | ||
| Romancero | Teodoro | [49] |
References edit
- ^ Belategui, Oskar L. (31 March 2012). "Willy pasa la noche en comisaría". Diario Vasco. Grupo Vocento.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j 20minutos (13 October 2015). "Willy Toledo: del otro lado de la cama, al otro lado de la polémica". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 November 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Maldonado, Lorena G. (23 August 2018). "La maldición de Willy Toledo, el 'enemigo del pueblo': se cae de la obra de Rigola". El Español.
- ^ a b c "Las Razones para la rebeldía de Willy Toledo". Eleconomista. 3 September 2011.
- ^ "No tengo esperanzas de que un día acabe este veto". El Día. Prensa Ibérica. 21 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Willy Toledo, el niño del Viso que quiso ser rebelde". El Economista. 1 April 2012.
- ^ Blanco, Leonardo (6 August 2006). "Guillermo Toledo: políticamente incorrecto". La Nación.
- ^ "La Compañía Animalario, Premio Nacional de Teatro". El Mundo. 5 November 2005.
- ^ "Animalario, Premio Nacional de Teatro". ABC. 4 November 2005.
- ^ Fernández-Santos, Elsa (13 December 2002). "'Los lunes al sol', principal candidato a los Goya". El País.
- ^ ""Mar adentro", nominada en 15 categorías para la XIX edición de los Premios Goya". Libertad Digital. 14 December 2004.
- ^ "El polémico Willy Toledo aparca su activismo político para volver a la ficción". abcplay. ABC. 4 December 2019.
- ^ "Spain: Acquittal of Willy Toledo upheld". 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Confirman la absolución de Willy Toledo por no ofender sentimientos religiosos". 16 November 2020.
- ^ Portillo, Javier (17 July 2020). "El lado oculto del lobby ultracatólico Abogados Cristianos". HuffPost.
- ^ Zurro, Javier; García Higueras, Laura; Tenías, Ana (7 May 2023). "Drag queens, 'tiktokers', músicos y actores, la cultura que se moja en las elecciones del 28M". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- ^ Baroja, Eva; Granizo, María (4 December 200). "Willy Toledo: "Me encanta 'La Vida de Brian' porque es irreverente, atea y va sobre la división de la izquierda"". eldiario.es.
- ^ "La ley de la frontera". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
- ^ Holland, Jonathan (15 June 1998). "Mensaka". Variety.
- ^ Santaolalla, Isabel (2005). Los "otros": etnicidad y "raza" en el cine español contemporáneo. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. p. 127. ISBN 8477337535.
- ^ Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. p. 399. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.
- ^ Barrena, Tito (27 August 2008). "Hoy se proyecta la película "La lengua de las mariposas"". La Voz de Cádiz.
- ^ Caparrós Lera, José María (2005). La Pantalla Popular. El cine español durante el Gobierno de la derecha (1996-2003). Tres Cantos: Ediciones Akal. p. 151. ISBN 978-84-460-2414-9.
- ^ "La espalda de dios". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
- ^ "Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
- ^ Dávila Vargas-Machuda, Miguel (2019). "Las pasiones de Juana la Loca en el cine español: desde la Historia y el Teatro a las adaptaciones, readaptaciones y remakes compuestos". Trasvases Entre la Literatura y el Cine. 1. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga: 115. doi:10.24310/Trasvasestlc.v1i0.6435. ISSN 2695-639X.
- ^ Stratton, David (2 August 2001). "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories". Variety.
- ^ Pereira Zazo, Oscar; Lorenzo, Lola (2008). "Reseña de Intacto: Irrational Exuberance". Spanish Language and Literature. 19: 1.
- ^ Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "El otro lado de la cama". Fotogramas.
- ^ García, Rocío (9 June 2002). "El lado más oscuro de Brenan en Las Alpujarras". El País.
- ^ Méndez-Leite, Fernándo (29 May 2008). "El misterio Galíndez". Fotogramas.
- ^ "'Siete vidas', con más de 180 capítulos, trampolín para casi todos sus actores". FormulaTV. 12 May 2005.
- ^ Garzón, Raquel (23 April 2004). "Santiago Segura deja a Torrente por Borjamari, "un pijo, ossea"". El País.
- ^ Palacios, Jesús (29 May 2008). "Seres queridos". Fotogramas.
- ^ Blanco, Leonardo (6 August 2006). "Entrevista. Guillermo Toledo: políticamente incorrecto". La Nación.
- ^ Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "Los 2 lados de la cama". Fotogramas.
- ^ Collado, Silvia (14 September 2007). "El club Che salta a la gran pantalla". Las Provincias.
- ^ Toca, Antonio (13 October 2008). "'Santos' es Nicolás López". Espinof.
- ^ Cruz, Jacqueline (2010). "El nacional-catolicismo, o la Santa Cruzada contra el Evangelio. "La buena nueva" de Helena Taberna". CiberLetras: Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura (24). ISSN 1523-1720.
- ^ "Blanca Romero y Willy Toledo ahogan sus penas en "After"". Levante-EMV. 21 October 2009.
- ^ Herrera, Beatriz (20 April 2010). "David Marqués completa su trilogía con 'Desechos'". Diario Sur.
- ^ "Deluxe, contra Los amantes pasajeros e Idris Elba en la noche del sábado". Vertele. eldiario.es. 8 July 2017.
- ^ Torreiro, Mirito (19 April 2013). "Diamantes negros. Para interesados en el fútbol que no se ven en la tele". Fotogramas.
- ^ ""Historias de Lavapiés", de Ramón Luque, descubre al Willy Toledo insolidario". La Información. 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Críticas a ETB por emitir una película de animación donde Willy Toledo ridiculiza a la Guardia Civil". Cadena COPE. 13 April 2020.
- ^ Borges, Luigi Benedicto (16 November 2020). "Willy Toledo: "Cuando aparece el hambre de verdad, las sociedades explotan"". Metrópoli – via El Mundo.
- ^ Guayama, Miguel (16 June 2023). "Netflix: una comedia romántica que es un éxito y no te podés perder". Diario UNO.
- ^ Kofoed, Sofia (20 February 2023). "'El grito de las mariposas', la nueva serie de Disney+, presenta su emocionante historia real en este avance exclusivo". ecartelera.
- ^ "Visitamos el rodaje de 'Romancero', una serie de terror sobrenatural con Ricardo Gómez y Belén Cuesta". Antena 3. 18 April 2023.
External links edit
- Guillermo Toledo at IMDb