Paco León

Acting

Paco León

Born

1975-10-04 (51)

Place of birth

Sevilla, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

84 titles

Francisco León Barrios (born 4 October 1974), known as Paco León, is a Spanish actor, producer, director, screenwriter and activist from Seville, Andalusia. Beginning as a comedy performer, he rose to prominence on channel Antena 3 with sketch show Homo Zapping, and in Aída, playing the main character Luisma. He gained more prominence for portraying María José Riquelme in the Netflix series The House of Flowers, and writing, directing, and starring as Manolo in Movistar's Arde Madrid. He is also a prominent campaigner for HIV/AIDS causes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paco León, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

El hormiguero poster
4.7

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

El hormiguero

2006

La resistencia poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La resistencia

2018

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent poster
6.8

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

2022

Aída poster
7.9

Aída is a Spanish comedy sitcom set in Madrid, that spin off from another sitcom called 7 Vidas. The show first aired on January 16, 2005 and is produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Telecinco. It currently started its ninth season. The show stars Carmen Machi as the title character, Aída García, a working, single mother with two teenage children, forced to move in with her mother and brother to make ends meet. The show has received favorable criticism from the audience and has been the most viewed show in Spain since 2007. It has also received several awards like the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish re-make of the series began airing in March 2012 on TVP2 channel.

Aída

2005

Drag Race España poster
7.5

On the Spanish version of RuPaul's Drag Race, Supremme de Luxe presides as Spain's most talented queens compete to be crowned Spain's Next Drag Superstar.

Drag Race España

2021

The House of Flowers poster
7.7

A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.

The House of Flowers

2018

Film credits

2020s · 19 titles

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent poster
6.8

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

2022

The House of Flowers: The Movie poster
7.9

The De La Mora siblings concoct a mischievous plan to break into their old family home to retrieve a hidden treasure of significant importance.

The House of Flowers: The Movie

2021

My Dearest Señorita poster
6.5

A young woman from a traditional family learns she's intersex, sparking a journey of self-discovery, gender identity and love found in unexpected places.

My Dearest Señorita

2026

Staring at Strangers poster
6.5

Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living with an unknown family.

Staring at Strangers

2022

You Keep the Kids poster
7.1

Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.

You Keep the Kids

2021

Aida, the Movie poster
6.9

The film deals with the filming of an episode of the series with storylines that take place both within the fiction with the characters of 'Aída' and outside of it with the actors themselves and their relationships, which reflects on topics such as the limits of comedy, the work of a comedian and fame.

Aida, the Movie

2026

Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente poster
NR

A short film with which the Spanish television program El Hormiguero begins its season.

Misión imposible, no... lo siguiente

2026

Santo António - Lisbon Love poster
7.0

Lisbon's traditional Saint Anthony's Weddings have hit rock bottom. At least, that's what Stardust, a major French multinational poised to take over the event, believes. Carmo and Valentim, two Lisbon City Hall employees who have spent more than 25 years organizing the celebrations, are given a harsh ultimatum: reinvent the event and turn it into a modern success, or lose their jobs. Directed by the filmmaker behind The Gilded Cage, Saint Anthony is a vibrant comedy and a heartfelt love letter to Lisbon. A celebration of human connection, identity, and cultural resilience in an increasingly globalized world.

Santo António - Lisbon Love

2026

Aída y vuelta: Capítulo regalo poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Aída y vuelta: Capítulo regalo

2026

No Instructions poster
6.9

Leo is a single, womanizing guy who lives day to day in a tiny beach town in the Canary Islands. One day one of his old flings, Julia, reappears to leave a baby of a few months in his arms and she disappears at the next morning.

No Instructions

2024

El viaje de Julieta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El viaje de Julieta

2023

Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta poster
NR

A documentary celebrating the life of Fernando Estrella, a pioneering LGBTI activist and beloved cultural icon. Through testimonies from friends and collaborators, it traces his fearless advocacy, artistic brilliance, and deep impact on queer visibility in Spain—from the Movida Madrileña to his influential presence in Palma. A chef, performer, and actor in Almodóvar’s films, Estrella defied norms and built community, especially through his legendary restaurant, Flexa. The film culminates in the surreal and moving farewell party held just before his death in 2023, a testament to the love he inspired.

Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta

2025

Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist poster
8.0

In the most tragic moment of the pandemic, confined to a terrace in the centre of Barcelona and almost by chance, the musical phenomenon of the Stay Homas was born, a band that now struggles, in their Gen Z way, to escape from an origin that burdens them.

Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist

2024

Queen of Coal poster
6.9

A young trans girl growing up in a small Patagonian mining town secures her dream job as a coal miner as soon as she turns 18, challenging an old superstition rooted in a folk tale that for 80 years forbid all women from entering the mine's underground galleries, fearing that their mere presence could trigger a collapse.

Queen of Coal

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Roja

2027

One X Two poster
5.3

Two old friends have been betting on the football pool since college. They meet up one weekend where everyone seems happy, but the possibility of hitting the jackpot and becoming millionaires grows increasingly real.

One X Two

2025

Co-Husbands poster
5.1

Emilio and Tono both receive phone calls that their wives are in comas after a ski-resort avalanche. At the hospital desk, they make a shocking discovery: their wives are, in fact, the same person … Laura. Forced to wait together until Laura regains consciousness, Emilio and Toni battle to prove who is her one and only true husband.

Co-Husbands

2023

A Hipster in Rural Spain poster
5.2

Quique is dispatched to a village in deep Spain Teruel to lead its politics of recuperation but soon discovers he was sent there so that his girlfriend and leader of his party could spend more time together.

A Hipster in Rural Spain

2024

Vecinooo poster
6.5

Quarantine short by Paco León

Vecinooo

2020

2010s · 11 titles

The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral poster
7.0

The de la Mora siblings publicly mourn the death of their mother amid multiple surprises and mishaps at Virginia's funeral.

The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral

2019

Kiki: Love to Love poster
6.1

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

Kiki: Love to Love

2016

Toc Toc poster
7.1

A group of patients meet at a prestigious psychologist's office. Apart from the day and time of the appointment, something else unites them all: all six suffer from OCD. But the plane bringing the doctor is unexpectedly delayed, which forces them to spend an endless wait until the doctor shows up. Will they be able to keep their manias, impulses, convulsions, obsessions and rituals at bay during the wait?

Toc Toc

2017

Three Many Weddings poster
6.0

Ruth, a young researcher at a college, is invited to the weddings of three of her exes. She enlists the help of her assistant to find a companion for each wedding; will one of them turn out to be her soulmate?

Three Many Weddings

2013

Error 0036 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Error 0036

2011

Seven Years poster
6.4

The drama is centered on four friends and business partners who in one evening are forced to find a way to save their company and themselves. The impossible decision they face is agreeing on who will be the one to sacrifice their freedom to save the others from personal and financial demise. It is a race against time that will put their friendship and sanity to the test. Who will take the fall?

Seven Years

2016

The Tribe poster
6.3

A cleaner woman with vocational street dancer tries to recover her long-stranded son that she gave for adoption, a former CEO who lost everything, including his memories.

The Tribe

2018

Carmina and Amen poster
6.2

After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Carmina and Amen

2014

Don't call it love... call it x poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Don't call it love... call it x

2011

We Are Pregnant poster
5.4

It seems simple: an egg + sperm = one embryo. But if your sperm is "few, vague and abnormal" and your woman is premenopausal at age 37, things start to get complicated.

We Are Pregnant

2016

Se busca cómico para película poster
6.0

Documentary about new actors in Spain.

Se busca cómico para película

2012

2000s · 10 titles

Queens poster
6.0

In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, become entwined.

Queens

2005

Mediterranean Food poster
5.3

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Mediterranean Food

2009

Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her poster
5.4

In medical school of an elite university, campus starts sown with corpses. The police have no clue who is responsible for the carnage. Nobody suspected Barbara, a beautiful young innocent looking whose only concern seems to be the fashion. However, under the facade of frivolity, hides the most lethal and unforgiving of the killer: Barbykiller…

Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her

2008

Spaggheti Western poster
5.0

Short film where Espagueti Kid follows the track of the villain Fideo Jack in order to avenge his pasta family.

Spaggheti Western

2007

Días rojos poster
7.0

In 1936, the Spanish Civil War has just begun. Rebel army is taking at force a republican village, So, Juan and "Bicho" are obligated to go away the death. They will try to arrive the mines, where some refugees want to create a resistance against the rebels. Will they get their purpose?

Días rojos

2004

To Love and Die in Seville poster
5.5

Don Juan Tenorio, accompanied by his faithful servant Ciutti, returns to Seville to resolve the bet he made with Don Luis Mejía. The two are placed to a new bet, since they have killed a similar number of men and conquered the same women. The new bet is that Don Juan has to conquer a novice and a maid who is about to get married, the time stipulated in six days. Don Juan warns Don Luis that the maid will be Doña Ana de Pantoja, with whom Don Luis is going to marry. The one who loses will pay with his life.

To Love and Die in Seville

2001

Los mánagers poster
5.4

Two jobless Forty-somethings: Maca and Rena are in serious need of a financial stroke of luck. When they spot an ad for a TV contest looking for the next Pop Idol, they decide to turn themselves into the MANAGERS of two young hopefuls: Pipo and David. While launching their careers with performances in bars, bingo clubs and other such dives they encounter Rota, a shady old singer who arranges for them to tour the Costa del Sol. Thus begins a frenetic road movie where dreams of success turn into a nightmare inhabited by strange creatures: Tom Jones clones, porn stars, enlightened arabs, psychopathic marines, kitch TV presenters, corrupt politicians and even extra-terrestrials.

Los mánagers

2006

La dama boba poster
5.4

Spain, 17th century. With the arrival of two suitors, rivalry and jealousy come between two sisters with very different personalities.

La dama boba

2006

La vida mancha poster
7.0

Fito (Juan Sanz) is a poker addict truck driver and labor problems that his wife Juana (Zay Nuba) tries to overcome. A day will come Pedro (Jose Coronado), the brother Fito, absent from his life for 13 years.

La vida mancha

2003

Computer assault poster
7.0

Each of the members of a group of hackers is willing to fight against system. Their messages and attacks are political, socially demmanding but also playful. Each of them have reasons to have moved to that virtual side, where they can be who they can't in real life. However, the sudden implication of authorities (pressed by goverment to be tougher against hackers)and of a wise and dangerous cracker will cause a turn in their crusade. Will they use the enemy's means or their ideological motivations imply a respect for law and human life?

Computer assault

2002

Series credits

El hormiguero poster
4.7

El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.

El hormiguero

2006

La resistencia poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

La resistencia

2018

Aída poster
7.9

Aída is a Spanish comedy sitcom set in Madrid, that spin off from another sitcom called 7 Vidas. The show first aired on January 16, 2005 and is produced by Globomedia for the Spanish network Telecinco. It currently started its ninth season. The show stars Carmen Machi as the title character, Aída García, a working, single mother with two teenage children, forced to move in with her mother and brother to make ends meet. The show has received favorable criticism from the audience and has been the most viewed show in Spain since 2007. It has also received several awards like the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish re-make of the series began airing in March 2012 on TVP2 channel.

Aída

2005

Drag Race España poster
7.5

On the Spanish version of RuPaul's Drag Race, Supremme de Luxe presides as Spain's most talented queens compete to be crowned Spain's Next Drag Superstar.

Drag Race España

2021

The House of Flowers poster
7.7

A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.

The House of Flowers

2018

Martínez y hermanos poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Martínez y hermanos

2022

MasterChef poster
6.0

MasterChef is a Spanish competitive reality television cooking show based on the British television cooking game show of the same title.

MasterChef

2013

Homo Zapping poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Homo Zapping

2003

El Club de la Comedia poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

El Club de la Comedia

1999

Zapeando poster
4.6

Zapeando is a live chat where its host and its collaborators talk about the most highlighted moments of the television, as well as the spaces more and less loved by viewers, the best videos and video edits, the mistakes of other hosts, remembering old people who had success on television or the most talked-about commercials. In addition, the format supports introducing guests to some programmes that help to chat about some TV moments (called momentazos, big moments) or simply talk about their most recent works.

Zapeando

2013

La Noche D poster
3.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Noche D

2021

Late Xou con Marc Giró poster
1.0

Marc Giró presents a very entertaining late night show with interviews with prominent personalities from the world of cinema, theatre, music, television, literature and social activism in our national scene.

Late Xou con Marc Giró

2023

The Plague poster
7.0

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.

The Plague

2018

Jet Lag poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jet Lag

2001

Lo Siguiente poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lo Siguiente

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perspectivas

2023

Arde Madrid poster
6.8

Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.

Arde Madrid

2018

Capítulo 0 poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Capítulo 0

2018

Al cielo con ella poster
NR

The comedian and writer Henar Álvarez sits on the throne of 'Al cielo con ella', the new RTVE Play programme. A mischievous, irreverent, transgressive and vindictive interview space in the purest Henar style. The stage of the Quique San Francisco theatre in Madrid will witness the passage of popular guests with interviews full of humour in which the voices of women who have a lot to say will be heard. The music band 'Manny Calavera' will be in charge of setting the rhythm for a programme in which there will be no shortage of surprises.

Al cielo con ella

2024

Ruido Capital poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruido Capital

2020

Joaquín, el novato poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Joaquín, el novato

2022

En la tuya o en la mía poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

En la tuya o en la mía

2015

That's My Jam (España) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

That's My Jam (España)

2023

Besos al aire poster
7.0

Eight interlinked stories of lockdown love sparked during Spain’s first national lockdown during the pandemic.

Besos al aire

2021

¿Quién quiere ser millonario? poster
4.5

Spanish game show based on the original British format of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".

¿Quién quiere ser millonario?

2020

Días de tele poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Días de tele

2023

Feis tu feis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Feis tu feis

2016

Behind the camera

Kiki: Love to Love poster
6.1

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

Kiki: Love to Love

2016

Kiki: Love to Love poster
6.1

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

Kiki: Love to Love

2016

Aida, the Movie poster
6.9

The film deals with the filming of an episode of the series with storylines that take place both within the fiction with the characters of 'Aída' and outside of it with the actors themselves and their relationships, which reflects on topics such as the limits of comedy, the work of a comedian and fame.

Aida, the Movie

2026

Aida, the Movie poster
6.9

The film deals with the filming of an episode of the series with storylines that take place both within the fiction with the characters of 'Aída' and outside of it with the actors themselves and their relationships, which reflects on topics such as the limits of comedy, the work of a comedian and fame.

Aida, the Movie

2026

Vaca Paloma poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vaca Paloma

2015

Vaca Paloma poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vaca Paloma

2015

Carmina and Amen poster
6.2

After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Carmina and Amen

2014

Carmina and Amen poster
6.2

After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Carmina and Amen

2014

Rainbow poster
5.5

In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.

Rainbow

2022

Rainbow poster
5.5

In search of her mother, a teenager and her eccentric group of companions set off on a journey, trying to avoid the clutches of a wicked woman.

Rainbow

2022

Carmina or Blow Up poster
6.2

Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.

Carmina or Blow Up

2012

Carmina or Blow Up poster
6.2

Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.

Carmina or Blow Up

2012

No artwork available
5.5

The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

La vuelta a la tortilla

2013

Vecinooo poster
6.5

Quarantine short by Paco León

Vecinooo

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

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