Guillermo del Toro
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-10-09
Place of Birth
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Guillermo del Toro
Biography
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). As a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), which was later adapted into a comic book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020) and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021). Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and he received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
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07 Spaceys
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Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
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Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Jun 03, 2008
I'm No Longer Here: A Discussion with Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón
Oct 30, 2020
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Oct 04, 2005
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
Jul 24, 2008
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Dec 18, 2007
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
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El último truco
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
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Men in Suits
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Dario Argento: Panico
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El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Nov 30, 2012
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
Oct 23, 2013
George Pal: Un Marciano De Hollywood En Argentina
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Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
Oct 07, 2008
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Nov 09, 2023
Zombie Lover
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Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Nov 24, 2009
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Jul 19, 2013
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
Feb 13, 2018
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
Sep 01, 2015
Bullfighter
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Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
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Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
Oct 30, 2012
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Jun 10, 2008
Extraordinary Tales
Feb 28, 2013
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Oct 18, 2022
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Sep 06, 2016
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Dec 09, 2022
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Nov 28, 2018
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Nov 18, 2015
Lennon or McCartney
Dec 12, 2014
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Sep 10, 2011
Puss in Boots
Oct 27, 2011
The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet
Nov 11, 2015
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Nov 03, 2009
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Nov 03, 2009
78/52
Oct 13, 2017
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Mar 26, 2020
Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
Nov 11, 2008
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
Jul 27, 2004
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Oct 07, 2008
Five Came Back
Mar 31, 2017
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Oct 07, 2008
The Book of Life
Oct 01, 2014
Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'
Jan 01, 2004
Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-Depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
Apr 12, 2025
Spanish Gothic
Jul 30, 2013
The Power of Myth
Dec 26, 2007
Pan and the Fairies
Dec 26, 2007
The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale
Dec 26, 2007
The Color and the Shape
Dec 26, 2007
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
Feb 24, 2014
Masters of Horror
Nov 06, 2002
The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim
Oct 15, 2013
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
Jan 14, 2019
Torrente 3: The Protector
Sep 30, 2005
I Remember Crimson Peak
Feb 09, 2016
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
Feb 09, 2016
A Living Thing
Feb 09, 2016
Hand Tailored Gothic
Feb 09, 2016
Crimson Phantoms
Feb 09, 2016
Diary of the Dead
May 26, 2007
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Dec 11, 2018
Love, Antosha
Aug 02, 2019
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Nov 06, 2010
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Jan 30, 2019
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
Mar 25, 2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Jul 11, 2008
Hellboy
Apr 02, 2004
Cronos
Nov 05, 1993
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Sep 24, 2013
Quantum of Solace
Oct 29, 2008
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Aug 13, 2022
When Romero Met Del Toro
Oct 23, 2017
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Sep 17, 2021
Mollusk
Reclaiming 'Mimic'
Sep 27, 2011
A Leap in Evolution: The Creatures of 'Mimic'
Sep 27, 2011
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
Sep 27, 2011
The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'
Sep 03, 2002
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Oct 07, 2008
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Jun 20, 2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
May 31, 2025
Noin
Dec 01, 2003
Guillermo del Toro - STUDIO GHIBLI MASTERCLASS
Jul 24, 2025
The Thing Expanded
Sangre del Toro
Aug 29, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
HypaSpace
May 13, 2002
The Director's Chair
May 10, 2014
Barry
Mar 25, 2018
Five Came Back
Mar 31, 2017
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
The Game Awards
Dec 05, 2014
Elvis Goes There
Feb 04, 2019
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Oct 25, 2022
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Apr 29, 2018
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Variety Studio: Directors on Directors
Mar 03, 2021
