Guillermo del Toro
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
114
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-10-09 (61 years old)
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.
Known For
The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Golden Globe Awards
Futurama
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Barry
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Oscars
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Noin
Quantum of Solace
Bullfighter
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Puss in Boots
Hellboy
Directors on Directors
The Book of Life
Cronos
07 Spaceys
78/52
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Love, Antosha
Sangre del Toro
Dario Argento: Panico
Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters
Five Came Back
Reclaiming 'Mimic'
I Remember Crimson Peak
The Thing Expanded
HypaSpace
Diary of the Dead
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
The Game Awards
Hand Tailored Gothic
Leonardo da Vinci
Crimson Phantoms
Lennon or McCartney
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Mollusk
The Director's Chair
Netflix Tudum 2025
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Torrente 3: The Protector
Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
Elvis Goes There
Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-Depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Five Came Back
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
A Living Thing
The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Zombie Lover
It’s a Mad Max World
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
Hellboy: In Service of the Demon
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Extraordinary Tales
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
The Blood Pact: The Making of 'Blade II'
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers
Hellboy: The Seeds of Creation
I'm No Longer Here: A Discussion with Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón
The Power of Myth
Masters of Horror
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Saul Bass: Title Champ
The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld
Spanish Gothic
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
Guillermo del Toro Behind the Scenes of Frankenstein with Oscar Isaac & Jacob Elordi
El último truco
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Edith Head: Dressing the Master's Movies
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
The House Is Alive: Constructing 'Crimson Peak'
Pan and the Fairies
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza
Men in Suits
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
George Pal: Un Marciano De Hollywood En Argentina
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Que es un Fantasma?: The Making of 'The Devil's Backbone'
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
The Color and the Shape
A Leap in Evolution: The Creatures of 'Mimic'
The Melody Echoes the Fairy Tale
When Romero Met Del Toro
The First Hundred Feet, the Last Hundred Feet
Guillermo del Toro Interviews Paul Williams
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
