Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist. He is best known for the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between personal, lower-budget Spanish language films, such as Cronos (1993) and The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Hollywood tentpoles, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillermo del Toro has received more than 10,116,390 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Guillermo del Toro is the 181st most popular film director (down from 176th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 37th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Mexican Film Director.