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Guillermo Toledo

{{short description|Spanish actor and producer (born 1970)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{family name hatnote|Toledo|Monsalve|lang=Spanish}}

{{infobox person

| image = Willy Toledo, XIII Premis Gaudí (2021).jpg

| caption = Toledo at the 2021 Gaudí Awards

| birth_name = Guillermo Toledo Monsalve

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| other_names = Willy Toledo

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|22 May 1970|df=y}}

| education = Colegio Estilo

| years_active = 1995–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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.diariovasco.com/v/20120331/cultura/willy-pasa-noche-comisaria-20120331.html|website=Diario Vasco|publisher=Grupo Vocento|date=31 March 2012|title=Willy pasa la noche en comisaría|first=Oskar L.|last=Belategui}} advancing further public recognition for performances in films such as The Other Side of the Bed (2002), Football Days (2003), and Ferpect Crime (2004).{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/cultura/escena/20180823/maldicion-willy-toledo-enemigo-pueblo-obra-rigola/332467434_0.html|website=El Español|date=23 August 2018|first=Lorena G.|last=Maldonado|title=La maldición de Willy Toledo, el 'enemigo del pueblo': se cae de la obra de Rigola}}

Besides his acting career, he is also noted as a polemicist and for his political activism. He has claimed to suffer a veto by the Spanish film and television industry limiting his job opportunities due to his off-screen activities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldia.es/cultura/2019-01-21/17--tengo-esperanzas-dia-acabe-veto.htm|website=El Día|date=21 January 2019|publisher=Prensa Ibérica|title=No tengo esperanzas de que un día acabe este veto}}

Biography

Guillermo Toledo Monsalve was born in Madrid on 22 May 1970, to a well-off family, son of a prestigious surgeon pioneer in thoracic surgery.{{Cite web|url=https://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/sociedad/noticias/3867277/04/12/Willy-Toledo-el-nino-del-Viso-que-quiso-ser-rebelde.html|website=El Economista|title=Willy Toledo, el niño del Viso que quiso ser rebelde|date=1 April 2012}} He studied at the Colegio Estilo in El Viso. He trained as an actor in Spain and the United States.

He made his feature film debut in You Shall Die in Chafarinas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/lifestyle/guillermo-toledo-politicamente-incorrecto-nid828090/|website=La Nación|date=6 August 2006|first=Leonardo|last=Blanco|title=Guillermo Toledo: políticamente incorrecto}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/11/04/cultura/1131110846.html|website=El Mundo|title=La Compañía Animalario, Premio Nacional de Teatro|date=5 November 2005}} Ración de oreja later merged with Andrés Lima's Riesgo to create the theatre company {{ill|Animalario|es|Animalario (grupo de teatro)|lt=Animalario}}, named after Ración de oreja's debut work.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/teatros/abci-animalario-premio-nacional-teatro-200511040300-612049184227_noticia.html|website=ABC|title=Animalario, Premio Nacional de Teatro|date=4 November 2005}}

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

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,{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2002/12/13/cine/1039734001_850215.html|website=El País|title='Los lunes al sol', principal candidato a los Goya|date=13 December 2002|last1=Fernández-Santos|first1=Elsa}} whereas his performance in Álex de la Iglesia's Crimen ferpecto (2004) earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Actor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/sociedad/mar-adentro-nominada-en-15-categorias-para-la-xix-edicion-de-los-premios-goya-1276239665/|website=Libertad Digital|title="Mar adentro", nominada en 15 categorías para la XIX edición de los Premios Goya|date=14 December 2004}}

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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/play/series/noticias/abci-polemico-willy-toledo-aparca-activismo-politico-para-volver-ficcion-201911041427_noticia.html|website=abcplay|publisher=ABC|title=El polémico Willy Toledo aparca su activismo político para volver a la ficción|date=4 December 2019}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eleconomista.es/status/noticias/3348951/09/11/Las-Razones-para-la-rebeldia-de-Willy-Toledo-.html#:~:text=Guillermo%20Toledo%20(Madrid%2C%20Espa%C3%B1a%2C,a%20la%20guerra'%20de%20Irak.|date=3 September 2011|title=Las Razones para la rebeldía de Willy Toledo|website=Eleconomista}} Distinguished as deliverer of controversial statements and for the "disrespectful" way of defending them, he has also voiced himself in favour of the Cuban regime, against the Spanish monarchy, against Podemos and against La Sexta.{{Cite web|last=20minutos|date=2015-10-13|title=Willy Toledo: del otro lado de la cama, al otro lado de la polémica|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2577908/0/willy-toledo/mas-polemicas-declaraciones/lista/|access-date=2020-11-24|website=www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias|language=es}}

Toledo was arrested for allegedly causing "damage" during the {{ill|2012 Spanish general strike|es|Huelga general en España del 29 de marzo de 2012|lt=29 March 2012 Spanish general strike}}. He was released and the case against him was closed.

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".{{Cite web|url=https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/2020/11/spain-acquittal-of-willy-toledo-upheld/|title=Spain: Acquittal of Willy Toledo upheld|date=19 November 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-confirman-absolucion-willy-toledo-no-ofender-sentimientos-religiosos-202011161657_noticia.html|title = Confirman la absolución de Willy Toledo por no ofender sentimientos religiosos|date = 16 November 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.es/entry/quienes-son-que-hacen-abogados-cristianos_es_5efa103fc5b6acab2845266a|website=HuffPost|title=El lado oculto del lobby ultracatólico Abogados Cristianos|date=17 July 2020|first=Javier|last=Portillo}}

He appeared in the last position of the list of the CUP-led electoral list {{lang|ca|Guanyem}} for the 2023 local elections in Badalona. It is a show of symbolic support, it would be improbable that he became a councilor.{{cite news |last1=Zurro |first1=Javier |last2=García Higueras |first2=Laura |last3=Tenías |first3=Ana |title=Drag queens, 'tiktokers', músicos y actores, la cultura que se moja en las elecciones del 28M |url=https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/drag-queens-tiktokers-musicos-actores-cultura-moja-elecciones-28m_1_10179455.html |access-date=8 May 2023 |work=elDiario.es |date=7 May 2023 |language=es}}

Filmography

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= Film =

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YearFilmRoleNotesclass="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
align = "center" | 1995Morirás en ChafarinasFilm debutalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/red/la-playlist-de/willy-toledo-encanta-vida-brian-irreverente-atea-division-izquierda_1_6483225.html|website=eldiario.es|title=Willy Toledo: "Me encanta 'La Vida de Brian' porque es irreverente, atea y va sobre la división de la izquierda"|first1=Eva|last1=Baroja|first2=María|last2=Granizo|date=4 December 200}}
align = "center" | 1995La Ley de la fronteraalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a9491/la-ley-de-la-frontera/|date=29 May 2008|website=Fotogramas|title=La ley de la frontera}}
align = "center" | 1998MensakaRicardoalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/mensaka-1200454041/|website=Variety|first=Jonathan|last=Holland|author-link=|date=15 June 1998|title=Mensaka}}
align = "center" | 1999{{ill|Se buscan fulmontis|es}}El Réforalign = "center" | {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQkI2X0BeYQC&pg=PA127|page=127|title=Los "otros": etnicidad y "raza" en el cine español contemporáneo|first=Isabel|last=Santaolalla|publisher=Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza|location=Zaragoza|year=2005|isbn=8477337535}}
align = "center" | 1999La mujer más fea del mundo (The Ugliest Woman in the World)Lafuentealign = "center" | {{Cite book|title=Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático|first=Francisco María|last=Benavent|year=2000|isbn=84-271-2326-4|location=Bilbao|publisher=Ediciones Mensajero|page=399}}
align = "center" | 1999La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue)O'Lisalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/20080827/local/puerto-real/proyecta-pelicula-lengua-mariposas-200808271023.html|website=La Voz de Cádiz|title=Hoy se proyecta la película "La lengua de las mariposas"|first=Tito|last=Barrena|date=27 August 2008}}
align = "center" | 2000El otro barrio (The Other Side)Vicentealign = "center" | {{Cite book|title=La Pantalla Popular. El cine español durante el Gobierno de la derecha (1996-2003)|first=José María|last=Caparrós Lera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wJ8Hoa5FDEC&pg=PA151|location=Tres Cantos|publisher=Ediciones Akal|year=2005|isbn=978-84-460-2414-9|page=151}}
align = "center" | 2000{{ill|La espalda de Dios|es}}El sapoalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a3106/la-espalda-de-dios/|website=Fotogramas|date=29 May 2008|title=La espalda de dios}}
align = "center" | 2001{{ill|Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas|es}}align = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a3111/amor-curiosidad-prozak-y-dudas/|website=Fotogramas|title=Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas|date=29 May 2008}}
align = "center" | 2001Juana la Loca (Mad Love)Capitán Corralesalign = "center" | {{Cite journal|url=https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/trasvases/article/view/6435/6918|title=Las pasiones de Juana la Loca en el cine español: desde la Historia y el Teatro a las adaptaciones, readaptaciones y remakes compuestos|page=115|first=Miguel|last=Dávila Vargas-Machuda|volume=1|year=2019|issn=2695-639X|journal=Trasvases Entre la Literatura y el Cine|doi=10.24310/Trasvasestlc.v1i0.6435|publisher=Universidad de Málaga|location=Málaga|doi-access=free}}
align = "center" | 2001The Old Man Who Read Love StoriesOnecenalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/the-old-man-who-read-love-stories-1200469650/|website=Variety|date=2 August 2001|title=The Old Man Who Read Love Stories|first=David|last=Stratton}}
align = "center" | 2001IntactoHoracioalign = "center" | {{Cite journal|last1=Pereira Zazo|first1=Oscar|last2=Lorenzo|first2=Lola|title=Reseña de Intacto: Irrational Exuberance|year=2008|journal=Spanish Language and Literature|volume=19|page=1|url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=modlangspanish}}
align = "center" | 2002El otro lado de la cama (The Other Side of the Bed)Pedroalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a12302/el-otro-lado-de-la-cama/|website=Fotogramas|title=El otro lado de la cama|date=29 May 2008|first=Mirito|last=Torreiro}}
align = "center" | 2003Al sur de Granada (South from Granada)Pacoalign = "center" | {{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2002/06/09/espectaculos/1023573601_850215.html|website=El País|date=9 June 2002|title=El lado más oscuro de Brenan en Las Alpujarras|first=Rocío|last=García}}
align = "center" | 2003El misterio GalíndezRicardoalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a10031/el-misterio-galindez/|website=Fotogramas|title=El misterio Galíndez|first=Fernándo|last=Méndez-Leite|date=29 May 2008}}
align = "center" | 2004Las voces de la noche (Voices in the Night)align = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.formulatv.com/noticias/1098/siete-vidas-con-mas-de-180-capitulos-trampolin-para-casi-todos-sus-actores/|website=FormulaTV|title='Siete vidas', con más de 180 capítulos, trampolín para casi todos sus actores|date=12 May 2005}}
align = "center" | 2004El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y PocholoPelayoalign = "center" | {{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2004/04/23/cine/1082671210_850215.html|website=El País|title=Santiago Segura deja a Torrente por Borjamari, "un pijo, ossea"|first=Raquel|last=Garzón|date=23 April 2004}}
align = "center" | 2004Seres queridosRafialign = "center" | {{cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a8636/seres-queridos/|website=Fotogramas|title=Seres queridos|first=Jesús|last=Palacios|date=29 May 2008|author-link=Jesús Palacios Trigo}}
align = "center" | 2004Crimen ferpecto (The Ferpect Crime)Rafael Gonzálezalign = "center" | {{Cite news|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/lifestyle/guillermo-toledo-politicamente-incorrecto-nid828090/|website=La Nación|title=Entrevista. Guillermo Toledo: políticamente incorrecto|date=6 August 2006|first=Leonardo|last=Blanco}}
align = "center" | 2006Los 2 lados de la camaPedroalign = "center" | {{Cite web|first=Mirito|last=Torreiro|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a13073/los-2-lados-de-la-cama/|website=Fotogramas|title=Los 2 lados de la cama|date=29 May 2008}}
align = "center" | 2007{{ill|Salir pitando|es}}José Luis Ratón Pérezalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/valencia/prensa/20070914/ocio/club-salta-gran-pantalla_20070914.html|website=Las Provincias|title=El club Che salta a la gran pantalla|date=14 September 2007|first=Silvia|last=Collado}}
align = "center" | 2008SantosEl antropomoscoalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.espinof.com/criticas/santos-es-nicolas-lopez|website=Espinof|title='Santos' es Nicolás López|first=Antonio|last=Toca|date=13 October 2008}}
align = "center" | 2008La buena nueva (The Good News)Antoninoalign = "center" | {{Cite journal|title=El nacional-catolicismo, o la Santa Cruzada contra el Evangelio. "La buena nueva" de Helena Taberna|first=Jacqueline|last=Cruz|journal=CiberLetras: Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura|issn=1523-1720|issue=24|year=2010|url=http://www.lehman.edu/faculty/guinazu/ciberletras/v24/cruz.html}}
align = "center" | 2009AfterJulioalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.levante-emv.com/cultura/2009/10/21/blanca-romero-willy-toledo-ahogan-13199096.html|website=Levante-EMV|title=Blanca Romero y Willy Toledo ahogan sus penas en "After"|date=21 October 2009}}
align = "center" | 2010{{ill|Desechos (film)|es|Desechos (película)|lt=Desechos}}align = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/v/20100420/festival-malaga/david-marques-completa-trilogia-20100420.html|website=Diario Sur|title=David Marqués completa su trilogía con 'Desechos'|date=20 April 2010|first=Beatriz|last=Herrera}}
align = "center" | 2012Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited!)Ricardo Galánalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://vertele.eldiario.es/noticias/cine-sabadodeluxe-lasextanoche-Almodovar-Idris-Elba_0_1918908108.html|website=Vertele|publisher=eldiario.es|title=Deluxe, contra Los amantes pasajeros e Idris Elba en la noche del sábado|date=8 July 2017}}
align = "center" | 2013{{ill|Diamantes negros|ca}}align = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a508028/diamantes-negros-508028/|website=Fotogramas|title=Diamantes negros. Para interesados en el fútbol que no se ven en la tele|date=19 April 2013|first=Mirito|last=Torreiro}}
align = "center" | 2014Historias de LavapiésErnestoalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.lainformacion.com/arte-cultura-y-espectaculos/historias-de-lavapies-de-ramon-luque-descubre-al-willy-toledo-insolidario_1ClUZBxBvau6E1Hw0tYTD7/|website=La Información|date=14 January 2015|title="Historias de Lavapiés", de Ramón Luque, descubre al Willy Toledo insolidario}}
align = "center" | 2018Black Is BeltzaTeniente MuñozVoice workalign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.cope.es/actualidad/television/noticias/criticas-etb-por-emitir-una-pelicula-animacion-donde-willy-toledo-ridiculiza-guardia-civil-20200413_679754|website=Cadena COPE|date=13 April 2020|title=Críticas a ETB por emitir una película de animación donde Willy Toledo ridiculiza a la Guardia Civil}}

= Television =

class="sortable wikitable"
YearFilmRoleNotesclass="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
align = "center" | 2020Los favoritos de Midas (The Minions of Midas)Inspector Contealign = "center" | {{Cite web|website=Metrópoli|date=16 November 2020|first=Luigi Benedicto|last=Borges|via=El Mundo|url=https://www.elmundo.es/metropoli/otros-planes/2020/11/16/5fabb96ffdddffd8868b45db.html|title=Willy Toledo: "Cuando aparece el hambre de verdad, las sociedades explotan"}}
rowspan = "3" align = "center" | 2023{{ill|In Love All Over Again|es|Todas las veces que nos enamoramos|lt=Todas las veces que nos enamoramos}} (In Love All Over Again)Pabloalign = "center" | {{Cite web|date=16 June 2023|first=Miguel|last=Guayama|title=Netflix: una comedia romántica que es un éxito y no te podés perder|website=Diario UNO|url=https://www.diariouno.com.ar/series-y-peliculas/netflix-una-comedia-romantica-que-es-un-exito-y-no-te-podes-perder-n1116243}}
El grito de las mariposas (The Cry of the Butterflies)Asier Oyamburualign = "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.ecartelera.com/noticias/el-grito-de-las-mariposas-susana-abaitua-belen-rueda-72363/|website=ecartelera|date=20 February 2023|first=Sofia|last=Kofoed|title='El grito de las mariposas', la nueva serie de Disney+, presenta su emocionante historia real en este avance exclusivo}}
RomanceroTeodoroalign= "center" | {{Cite web|url=https://www.antena3.com/objetivotv/series/visitamos-rodaje-romancero-serie-terror-sobrenatural-ricardo-gomez-belen-cuesta_20230418643ebf342f8deb000156b585.html|website=Antena 3|date=18 April 2023|title=Visitamos el rodaje de 'Romancero', una serie de terror sobrenatural con Ricardo Gómez y Belén Cuesta}}

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