He gained popularity in Spain for his television role as Richard in sitcom 7 vidas from 1999 to 2002,[1][2] advancing further public recognition for performances in films such as The Other Side of the Bed (2002), Football Days (2003), and Ferpect Crime (2004).

[4][2] He has claimed to suffer a veto by the Spanish film and television industry limiting his job opportunities due to his off-screen activities.

[5] Guillermo Toledo Monsalve was born in Madrid on 22 May 1970,[4] to a well-off family, son of a prestigious surgeon pioneer in thoracic surgery.

[4] 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] 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".