--- name: "Julio Torres" canonical: "https://film.one/person/julio-torres" roles: ["Actor","Director"] born: "11 February 1987" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-17T16:46:23.794902+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Julio Torres Actor and director. Born 11 February 1987 in San Salvador, El Salvador. ## Details - **Work:** Actor, Director - **Born:** 11 February 1987, San Salvador, El Salvador - **Active:** 2024–present - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Torres, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65030610, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7088580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1659144 ## Coming up - *La bola negra* (2026-09-25), as Juan Pablo — [page](https://film.one/film/la-bola-negra.md) ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Fantasmas*](https://film.one/tv/fantasmas.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Julio Torres > Julio Torres makes bureaucracy funny by taking its demands seriously and following them into absurdity. We value the peculiar worlds he builds, even when his fondness for a detour keeps a finished joke going. In *Fantasmas* (2024), Julio Torres gives hamsters nightclubs and allows the idea enough time to become more than a passing joke. We laughed because he takes their nightlife seriously enough not to explain the joke. His fictional namesake faces eviction and must find proof of existence, but the search keeps making room for other people's concerns and peculiarities. It is funny, occasionally overextended television, and we would willingly follow him through most of its digressions. He has carried the sketch writer's habits into longer stories. Torres wrote for *Saturday Night Live* from 2016 to 2019. With Fred Armisen and Ana Fabrega, he co-created *Los Espookys* (2018), about friends staging fake supernatural events. The special *My Favourite Shapes* (2019) uses objects to tell personal stories, giving his interest in unlikely subjects a form of its own. *Problemista* (2024), his feature debut as writer-director, pairs him with Tilda Swinton in a story of creative struggles and visa bureaucracy. Torres is particularly sharp when *Fantasmas* turns towards art and the entertainment business. The expectation that a person's identity should be ready to package and sell gets the irritation it deserves. That pressure gives the series a reason to keep returning to Julio, even when the next unlikely encounter seems more immediately inviting. As a performer, Torres helps by leaving the strangeness unexplained. He plays the fictional Julio without straining to reassure us, leaving the other performers room to be peculiar in their own ways. Martine Gutierrez's Vanesja and Tomas Matos's Chester remain distinct company rather than rivals in an eccentricity competition. It is a useful restraint from a writer-director who otherwise gives each diversion considerable freedom. That freedom needs firmer limits in *Fantasmas*: some sketches continue after their jokes have finished. A miniature story can grow out of a gag, but not every gag merits the space. The housing problem keeps the series moving without quite preventing it from dawdling. Start here for Torres as writer, director and performer, with a little patience for the moments when he could have called a halt. ## Biography Julio Torres is a Salvadoran-American comedian, writer and actor. Born in San Salvador in 1987, he moved to New York to study at The New School. He began his career writing for *The Chris Gethard Show* on truTV before joining the writing staff of *Saturday Night Live*. Torres co-created, wrote and starred in the HBO series *Los Espookys* (2019–2022). He wrote, directed and starred in the film *Problemista* (2024) and created, wrote, directed and starred in the HBO series *Fantasmas* (2024), in which he appears as a version of himself. He is also credited as Juan Pablo in the 2026 film *La bola negra*. His voice work includes roles in *Nimona* (2023) and series such as *Bob's Burgers* and *The Great North*. Both *Los Espookys* and *Fantasmas* received Peabody Awards. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) ### Directed (1) - *Fantasmas* (2024), Fi1m 84, as Julio Torres / Pirulinpinpina — [page](https://film.one/tv/fantasmas.md) ## Complete filmography (27) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *La bola negra* (2026), as Juan Pablo — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/la-bola-negra.md) - *Color Theories by Julio Torres. A Guide to Seeing the World* (2026), Writer, Director, Executive Producer - *Boys Go to Jupiter* (2025), as T-Bone / Gas Station Guy / Brontosaurus (voice) - *Fantasmas* (2024), series, Julio Torres / Pirulinpinpina, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/fantasmas.md) - *Problemista* (2024), Alejandro, Director, Writer, Producer - *Millennial Hunter* (2023), as Chaz AF (voice) - *Nimona* (2023), as Diego the Squire (voice) - *Together Together* (2021), as Jules - *The Great North* (2021), series, as Crispin Cienfuegos (voice) - *On Labor and Management* (2020), Hog, Narrator, Director - *My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres* (2019), Executive Producer, Writer - *Los Espookys* (2019), series, Andres, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Creator - *Tuca & Bertie* (2019), series, Acting - *Shrill* (2019), series, as Ricochet - *The Other Two* (2019), series, as Jordan - *The Shivering Truth* (2018), series, as Dale (voice) - *Julio Torres: Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents* (2017), Acting - *Brigsby Bear* (2017), as Man Getting Haircut (uncredited) - *Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone* (2017), as Q&A Participant - *Search Party* (2016), series, as Quique — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/search-party-2016.md) - *High Maintenance* (2016), series, as Art School Kid 2 - *Boy Band* (2016), series, Otto, Writer - *Gay Skit Happens* (2016), series, Writer - *Horace and Pete* (2016), series, as Young Hipster - *The Jim Gaffigan Show* (2015), series, as QED MC - *The Special Without Brett Davis* (2015), series, Alonzo Cañas, Brice, Zlav Zretszky, Topher, Waiter, Laurent, Writer - *Bob's Burgers* (2011), series, as Rodrigo (voice) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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