Pepe Viyuela

{{short description|Spanish actor}}

{{family name hatnote|Viyuela|Castillo|lang=Spanish}}

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| birth_name = José Viyuela Castillo

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| birth_place = Logroño (La Rioja), Spain

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| nationality = Spanish

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José Viyuela Castillo (born 2 June 1963), known as Pepe Viyuela, is a Spanish actor, clown, poet, and comedian.{{cite web |url=https://www.formulatv.com/personas/pepe-viyuela/ |title=Pepe Viyuela |access-date=24 August 2018 |work=Fórmula TV |language=es |publisher=Noxvo}} He is best known in English-speaking countries for his one-man stage show Encerrona (Lock-In), which was brought to the London stage in June 2017 as part of the Festival of Spanish Theatre in London (Festelón).{{Cite web |url=https://www.britishspanishsociety.org/event/5th-annual-edition-festelon-festival-de-teatro-espanol-en-londres/ |title=5th Annual Edition FesTeLon – Festival de Teatro Español en Londres |date=12–25 June 2017 |access-date=24 August 2018 |work=The BritishSpanish Society |archive-date=20 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620182307/https://www.britishspanishsociety.org/event/5th-annual-edition-festelon-festival-de-teatro-espanol-en-londres/ |url-status=dead }}

He is known for playing Filemón in La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (2003) and Mortadelo y Filemón. Misión: salvar la Tierra (2008).{{cite news |url=https://www.ideal.es/granada/20080126/cultura/filemon-perdedor-nato-rinde-20080126.html |title=Filemón es un perdedor nato que no se rinde nunca |first1=J. |last1=Martín |first2=G. |last2=Pedrosa |date=26 January 2008 |access-date=26 January 2019 |newspaper=Ideal |language=es |publisher=Vocento}} In 2003 he published the novel Bestiario del circo: el vientre de la carpa, with a prologue by Andrés Aberasturi.{{cite web |url=http://www.clowns.org/sites/default/files/amor%20y%20humor%20de%20Maria%20Colomer%20Pache.pdf |title=Amor y humor. La sonrisa ante la muerte |work=Payasos sin Fronteras |access-date=24 August 2018 |language=es |pages=21 |archive-date=3 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203073653/http://www.clowns.org/sites/default/files/amor%20y%20humor%20de%20Maria%20Colomer%20Pache.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.mincultura.gov.co/areas/artes/publicaciones/Documents/Primera%20Caracterizaci%C3%B3n%20del%20Circo%20en%20Colombia.pdf |title=Caracterización de la población circense en Colombia |year=2011 |work=Ministerio de Cultura |first1=Javier Irenarco |last1=Pinzón P. |first2=Juan David |last2=Villa Ll |editor-first=Clara |editor-last=Tello |access-date=24 August 2018 |language=es |pages=110}} In 2008 he published his second collection of poems named Las letras de tu nombre.{{cite news |url=http://www.larioja.com/20080606/local/region/rioja-pepe-viyuela-publica-200806061323.html |title=Pepe Viyuela publica 'Las letras de tu nombre', su segundo poemario |author=E. Press |author-link=Europa Press (news agency) |date=6 June 2008 |access-date=24 August 2018 |newspaper=La Rioja |language=es |location=Madrid |publisher=Vocento}}

He appeared in the list proposed by the local party {{lang|es|Izquierda Independiente}} ("Independent Left") to the 2023 local elections in San Sebastián de los Reyes.

He does not intend to become an active politician, though.{{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}}