Pepe Viyuela

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Viyuela and the second or maternal family name is Castillo.

José Viyuela Castillo (born 2 June 1963), known as Pepe Viyuela, is a Spanish actor, clown, poet, and comedian.^[1] He is best known in English-speaking countries for his one-man stage show Encerrona (Lock-In), which was brought to the London stage in June 2017 as part of the Festival of Spanish Theatre in London (Festelón).^[2]

Pepe Viyuela
Viyuela in 2008
Born	José Viyuela Castillo (1963-06-02) 2 June 1963 (age 61) Logroño (La Rioja), Spain
Nationality	Spanish

He is known for playing Filemón in La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (2003) and Mortadelo y Filemón. Misión: salvar la Tierra (2008).^[3] In 2003 he published the novel Bestiario del circo: el vientre de la carpa, with a prologue by Andrés Aberasturi.^[4][5] In 2008 he published his second collection of poems named Las letras de tu nombre.^[6]

He appeared in the list proposed by the local party Izquierda Independiente ("Independent Left") to the 2023 local elections in San Sebastián de los Reyes. He does not intend to become an active politician, though.^[7]

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Earth	Ulloa
1998	The Miracle of P. Tinto	Manikomien Direktor
2003	Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure	Filemón
2004	Di que sí	Salvador Asension
2004	Escuela de seducción	Víctor
2008	Mortadelo and Filemon. Mission: Save the Planet	Filemón
2021	García y García	Javier García

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
1993, 2004	Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez		Televisión Española
2005-2014	Aída	José María Martínez ("Chema")	Telecinco
2015-2016	Olmos y Robles	Sebastián Olmos	Televisión Española

Theatre

Year	Title	Theatre	Role	Notes
2016	Mármol (Marble) by Marina Carr	Teatro Valle-Inclán	Art
2017	Encerrona (Lock-in) by Pepe Viyuela	John Lyon's Theatre, London	Festelón

References

1. "Pepe Viyuela". Fórmula TV (in Spanish). Noxvo. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
2. "5th Annual Edition FesTeLon – Festival de Teatro Español en Londres". The BritishSpanish Society. 12–25 June 2017. Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
3. Martín, J.; Pedrosa, G. (26 January 2008). "Filemón es un perdedor nato que no se rinde nunca". Ideal (in Spanish). Vocento. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
4. "Amor y humor. La sonrisa ante la muerte" (PDF). Payasos sin Fronteras (in Spanish). p. 21. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
5. Pinzón P., Javier Irenarco; Villa Ll, Juan David (2011). Tello, Clara (ed.). "Caracterización de la población circense en Colombia" (PDF). Ministerio de Cultura (in Spanish). p. 110. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
6. E. Press (6 June 2008). "Pepe Viyuela publica 'Las letras de tu nombre', su segundo poemario". La Rioja (in Spanish). Madrid: Vocento. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
7. Zurro, Javier; García Higueras, Laura; Tenías, Ana (7 May 2023). "Drag queens, 'tiktokers', músicos y actores, la cultura que se moja en las elecciones del 28M". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2023.

External links

• Pepe Viyuela at IMDb