Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Aída y vuelta
2026
as Paco León / Luisma
Aída y vuelta
2026
Director, Screenplay

One X Two
2025
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 hitt...

Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta
2025
A documentary celebrating the life of Fernando Estrella, a pioneering LGBTI activist and beloved cultural icon. Through testimonies from friends and c...

Miss Carbón
2025
The film tells the true story of Carla Antonella Rodríguez, the first female miner in a region of Argentina where women were forbidden to work in the ...

Babies Don't Come with Instructions
2024
as Leo
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 le...

Stay Homas. The Band That Shouldn’t Exist
2024
as Self - Actor
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 H...

A Hipster in Rural Spain
2024
as Gaspar
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 girlfrien...

Co-Husbands
2023
as Toni
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 discov...

El viaje de Julieta
2023
as Self

Staring at Strangers
2022
as Damián
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, hid...

Rainbow
2022
Director, Writer
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.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
2022
as Lucas Gutierrez
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take...

You Keep the Kids
2021
as Víctor
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...

The House of Flowers: The Movie
2021
as María José
The De La Mora siblings concoct a mischievous plan to break into their old family home to retrieve a hidden treasure of significant importance.

Vecinooo
2020
Quarantine short by Paco León

Vecinooo
2020
Director
Quarantine short by Paco León

The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral
2019
as María José Riquelme
The de la Mora family, their friends, acquaintances, and rivals gather for the funeral of Virginia de la Mora.

The Tribe
2018
as Fidel
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, inc...

Toc Toc
2017
as Emilio
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 s...

Seven Years
2016
as Luis
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 impo...

Kiki: Love to Love
2016
as Paco
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...

Kiki: Love to Love
2016
Director, Writer
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...

We Are Pregnant
2016
as Fran
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 t...

Vaca Paloma
2015
Director, Writer

Eat My Shit
2015
Thanks
Eat My Shit tells the tale of a woman with the unfortunate defect of having a butthole for a mouth.

Carmina and Amen
2014
as Hombre entierro
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Carmina and Amen
2014
Writer, Director
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.

Three Many Weddings
2013
as Mikel
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 ...
La vuelta a la tortilla
2013
Director
The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

Se busca cómico para película
2012
as Paco León
Documentary about new actors in Spain.

Carmina or Blow Up
2012
Director, Writer
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 ...

Error 0036
2011
as Jorge Arellano

Don't call it love... call it x
2011
as Fermín Macho

Mediterranean Food
2009
as Toni
Sofia's story, the best chef the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her
2008
as Cameo víctima coche
In medical school of an elite university, campus starts sown with corpses. The police have no clue who is responsible for the carnage. Nobody suspecte...

Spaggheti Western
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Short film where Espagueti Kid follows the track of the villain Fideo Jack in order to avenge his pasta family.

Los mánagers
2006
as Pipo
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 n...

La dama boba
2006
as Maestro Danza
Spain, 17th century. With the arrival of two suitors, rivalry and jealousy come between two sisters with very different personalities.

Queens
2005
as Narciso
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in c...

Días rojos
2004
as Canijo
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 d...

La vida mancha
2003
as Tipo 2
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 Coron...

Computer assault
2002
as LX
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 p...

To Love and Die in Seville
2001
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...
1X2
N/A

My Dearest Señorita
N/A
A remake of the 1971 film, a romantic drama that explored themes of intersexuality, and one of very few to tackle sexual orientation in General Franco...
Falstaff
N/A
Director