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Guillermo Toledo
Born22 May 1970
Madrid, Spain

Guillermo "Willy" Toledo Monsalve (born 22 May 1970) is a Spanish actor and producer. Besides his stage career he is also noted as polemicist and for his political activism.[1][2]

Biography

Guillermo Toledo Monsalve was born in Madrid on 22 May 1970,[1] to a well-off family, son of a prestigious surgeon pioneer in thoracic surgery.[3][2] He studied at the Colegio Estilo in El Viso.[3] He trained as actor in Spain and the United States.[2]

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.[4] 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.[5]

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,[6] whereas his performance in Álex de la Iglesia's Crimen ferpecto (2004) earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Actor.[7]

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 Los favoritos del Rey Midas,[8] 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.[1] 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".[9][10][11][2]

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes Ref.
1995 Morirás en Chafarinas [es] Film debut [12]
1995 La Ley de la frontera [13]
1998 Mensaka Ricardo [14]
1999 Se buscan fulmontis [es] El Réfor [15]
1999 La mujer más fea del mundo [16]
1999 La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue) O'Lis [17]
2000 El otro barrio [es] [18]
2000 La espalda de Dios [es] El sapo [19]
2001 Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas [es] [20]
2001 Juana la Loca (Mad Love) Capitán Corrales [21]
2001 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Onecen [22]
2001 Intacto Horacio [23]
2002 El otro lado de la cama Pedro [24]
2003 Al sur de Granada Paco [25]
2003 El misterio Galíndez [ca] Ricardo [26]
2004 Las voces de la noche (Voices in the Night) [27]
2004 El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo [es] Pelayo [28]
2004 Seres queridos Rafi [29]
2004 Crimen ferpecto (The Ferpect Crime) Rafael González [30]
2006 Los 2 lados de la cama [es] Pedro [31]
2007 Salir pitando [es] José Luis Ratón Pérez [32]
2008 Santos El antropomosco [33]
2008 La buena nueva [es] Antonino [34]
2009 After Julio [35]
2010 Desechos [es] [36]
2012 Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited!) Ricardo Galán [37]
2013 Diamantes negros [ca] [38]
2014 Historias de Lavapiés Ernesto [39]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Las Razones para la rebeldía de Willy Toledo". Eleconomista. 3 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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)
  3. ^ a b "Willy Toledo, el niño del Viso que quiso ser rebelde". El Economista. 1 April 2012.
  4. ^ "La Compañía Animalario, Premio Nacional de Teatro". El Mundo. 5 November 2005.
  5. ^ "Animalario, Premio Nacional de Teatro". ABC. 4 November 2005.
  6. ^ "'Los lunes al sol', principal candidato a los Goya". El País. 13 December 2002.
  7. ^ ""Mar adentro", nominada en 15 categorías para la XIX edición de los Premios Goya". Libertad Digital. 14 December 2004.
  8. ^ "El polémico Willy Toledo aparca su activismo político para volver a la ficción". abcplay. ABC. 4 December 2019.
  9. ^ https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/2020/11/spain-acquittal-of-willy-toledo-upheld/
  10. ^ https://www.abc.es/espana/abci-confirman-absolucion-willy-toledo-no-ofender-sentimientos-religiosos-202011161657_noticia.html
  11. ^ Portillo, Javier (17 July 2020). "El lado oculto del lobby ultracatólico Abogados Cristianos". HuffPost.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "La ley de la frontera". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  14. ^ Holland, Jonathan (15 June 1998). "Mensaka". Variety.
  15. ^ Santaolalla, Isabel (2005). Los "otros": etnicidad y "raza" en el cine español contemporáneo. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. p. 127. ISBN 8477337535.
  16. ^ Fernández-Santos, Elsa (3 November 1999). "Miguel Bardem estrena un cuento de hadas y de terror sobre la fealdad". El País.
  17. ^ Barrena, Tito (27 August 2008). "Hoy se proyecta la película "La lengua de las mariposas"". La Voz de Cádiz.
  18. ^ "Salvador García presenta 'El otro barrio', película premiada en San Sebastián". El País. 4 October 2010.
  19. ^ "La espalda de dios". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  20. ^ "Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ Stratton, David (2 August 2001). "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories". Variety.
  23. ^ Pereira Zazo, Oscar; Lorenzo, Lola (2008). "Reseña de Intacto: Irrational Exuberance". Spanish Language and Literature. 19: 1.
  24. ^ Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "El otro lado de la cama". Fotogramas.
  25. ^ García, Rocío (9 June 2002). "El lado más oscuro de Brenan en Las Alpujarras". El País.
  26. ^ Méndez-Leite, Fernándo (29 May 2008). "El misterio Galíndez". Fotogramas.
  27. ^ "'Siete vidas', con más de 180 capítulos, trampolín para casi todos sus actores". FormulaTV. 12 May 2005.
  28. ^ Garzón, Raquel (23 April 2004). "Santiago Segura deja a Torrente por Borjamari, "un pijo, ossea"". El País.
  29. ^ Palacios, Jesús (29 May 2008). "Seres queridos". Fotogramas.
  30. ^ Blanco, Leonardo (6 August 2006). "Entrevista. Guillermo Toledo: políticamente incorrecto". La Nación.
  31. ^ Torreiro, Mirito (29 May 2008). "Los 2 lados de la cama". Fotogramas.
  32. ^ Collado, Silvia (14 September 2007). "El club Che salta a la gran pantalla". Las Provincias.
  33. ^ Toca, Antonio (13 October 2008). "'Santos' es Nicolás López". Espinof.
  34. ^ 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.
  35. ^ "Blanca Romero y Willy Toledo ahogan sus penas en "After"". Levante-EMV. 21 October 2009.
  36. ^ Herrera, Beatriz (20 April 2010). "David Marqués completa su trilogía con 'Desechos'". Diario Sur.
  37. ^ "Deluxe, contra Los amantes pasajeros e Idris Elba en la noche del sábado". Vertele. eldiario.es. 8 July 2017.
  38. ^ Torreiro, Mirito (19 April 2013). "Diamantes negros. Para interesados en el fútbol que no se ven en la tele". Fotogramas.
  39. ^ ""Historias de Lavapiés", de Ramón Luque, descubre al Willy Toledo insolidario". La Información. 14 January 2015.
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