Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker who began making films when he was only eight years old in his home town of Guadalajara. He struggled long and hard to succeed, laboring on ten short films, none of which brought him fame. When he was 34 years old he was finally given an opportunity to make a major film when the American company Miramax gave him $30 million dollars to shoot a script he wrote called Mimic. During the shooting of this film his father was kidnapped in Mexico and held for ransom. It was an extremely stressful time for del Toro, and once his father was safely returned it was decided that the entire family would have to move from Mexico to prevent further ransom attempts. According to del Toro, there is not a day that goes by where he does not think about his forced exile from his home country. To date he has made a number of hugely successful films, including Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Blade II, and most recently, Pacific Rim.
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