Harvey Guillén as Guillermo | What We Do in the Shadows | FX
Harvey Guillén
Guillermo de la Cruz
Returning from London, "Guillermo," played by Harvey Guillén, finds there’s a baby Colin Robinson toddling around their dilapidated house, and he’s the only one who seems worried. But Guillermo also seems to have picked up a little swagger during his time away. Between his adventures in London and his work as Nadja’s new accountant, Guillermo now guards a secret or two of his own.
Career Highlights
GLAAD award-winning actor and producer Harvey Guillén’s inventive and creative approach to acting has won the hearts of fans across the globe in the Emmy®-nominated FX comedy series What We Do in the Shadows. Guillén’s role as "Guillermo de la Cruz" earned him a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Guillén made LGBTQ+ Latinx history by becoming the first queer Latinx actor to be nominated in this category.
Most recently, Guillén has taken on the role of “Jasper,” a local medical examiner, in Amazon’s Reacher. The series is based on the character “Jack Reacher” from Lee Child’s international bestselling books. He also voices “José the Spider” in the Netflix series Human Resources, “Gabe” in the Bone, Marry, Burry podcast and “Perro” in Puss in Boots 2, which will be released in 2022 by Dreamworks. Additionally, Guillén lends his voice to “Funny,” an enchanted talking playhouse, on Disney Junior’s Mickey Mouse Funhouse.
In 2021, Guillén starred opposite Michael Chernus, Michaela Watkins, Sam Richardson and Cheyenne Jackson in Werewolves Within, the horror comedy film directed by Josh Ruben based on the Ubisoft game of the same name.
Showcasing his musical side in a multi-episode arc, Guillén joined the cast of NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist as programmer “George” for season two.
Guillén got his start in acting after watching Annie on TV as a child. Since then, he has been seen in Syfy’s The Magicians, Nickelodeon’s The Thundermans, Apple TV+’s Little America and MTV’s Eye Candy starring Victoria Justice. For his role as “Elijah” in the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell Me What to Do” episode of Raising Hope, he earned a GLAAD Media Award. In film, Guillén acted opposite Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in The Internship and in Netflix’s Truth or Dare.
Guillén resides in Los Angeles.