Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro
Background information
Born	Guillermo del Toro Gómez October 9, 1964 (age 59) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Occupation	Actor, director, producer, screenwriter, author, visual effects artist
Years active	1985–present
Family information
Spouse	Lorenza Newton (1986–2017) Kim Morgan (2021–present)
Children	2

Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican actor, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and visual effects artist. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to horror, supernatural, and fantasy genre, particularly with the horror films Mimic and Crimson Peak, as well as other films, such as Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water (which won him an Academy Award for Best Director), all of which share a motif of del Toro's fascination with the beauty of the grotesque. He also directed the 2002 Marvel film Blade II.

For Disney, he produced a Haunted Mansion film remake that was ultimately rejected after years of development, as well as the aborted "Disney Double Dare You" family horror label, which was prematurely shut down after a poor performance of Frankenweenie, though he was able to salvage the Trollhunters novel concept into an animated series at DreamWorks and Netflix. He also wrote, produced, and directed Nightmare Alley, as well as guest-starred in the Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures episode "Goof Mansion" as the voice of Mr. Talbot.

Disney Role

Mr. Talbot
(Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures)

Gallery

Guillermo del Toro attending the 68th annual Cannes Film Fest in May 2015.

Guillermo del Toro speaks at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con.

Guillermo del Toro visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January 2016.

Guillermo del Toro speaks at the 2016 New York Comic Con.

Guillermo del Toro at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in August 2019.

Trivia

• He was about to remake Beauty and the Beast with Emma Watson, but for unknown reasons, he turned it down.
• Del Toro released his own version of Pinocchio entitled Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio in 2022.
  • Coincidentally, his film was released the same year that Disney released the live-action remake of the 1940 animated film.
    • Along with the two Pinocchio films, another Russian Pinocchio film entitled Pinocchio: A True Story was released earlier in 2022.
• His favorite movie since he was a child was always Pinocchio.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Guillermo del Toro on Wikipedia