Julio Torres was born on February 11,1987 and is a Salvadoran-American writer, comedian, and actor.
24 Facts About Julio Torres
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Julio Torres is known as a writer for Saturday Night Live and as the co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO series Los Espookys and Fantasmas.
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Julio Torres previously wrote for The Chris Gethard Show on truTV.
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Julio Torres directed, wrote, and starred in the surrealist comedy film Problemista.
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Julio Torres's father, Julio, is a civil engineer and his mother, Tita, is an architect and fashion designer.
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Julio Torres's grandmother was told by a fortune teller that one of her descendants would be successful in New York City which his mother believed to be Torres.
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Julio Torres grew up during the last years of the Salvadoran Civil War and remembers hiding under the dining table with his mother; however, he describes his childhood as idyllic.
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Julio Torres grew up in an apartment above his mother's clothing store where she would sew both his and his sister's clothes.
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Julio Torres had few friends in his youth and spent his time creating elaborate stories for Barbies and miniature toy cars.
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At age 11, his grandfather died and Julio Torres moved with his family to a farmhouse outside the city, where his mother grew up, after his mother's clothing store went out of business.
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Julio Torres attended a private high school in San Salvador after he and his sister received scholarships.
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Julio Torres made a presentation to his relatives to convince them to pay for Torres to attend college in New York and moved to Manhattan in 2009 after applying to Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School a second time with a scholarship.
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Julio Torres majored in English literature while he studied playwriting, graduating in 2011.
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Julio Torres worked as a writer on The Chris Gethard Show before he was hired to write for Saturday Night Live.
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Julio Torres worked at SNL from 2016 to 2019, writing sketches including "Papyrus" and "Wells for Boys".
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Julio Torres was nominated for four Emmys as a member of the SNL writing team.
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Julio Torres has appeared on The Tonight Show and other late-night programs.
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Julio Torres's comedy is frequently described by critics as "otherworldly" and "surrealist," with elements of the fantastical and a melancholy undercurrent.
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Armisen and Julio Torres had met when the former hosted SNL.
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Julio Torres was a co-showrunner and actor on the project, which became Los Espookys.
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Julio Torres plays Andres, a wealthy heir who searches for answers about his mysterious past.
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Julio Torres played the gay barista Jules in the 2021 comedy film Together Together.
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Julio Torres wrote and directed the film, a surrealist comedy, in which he portrays Alejandro, a Salvadoran creative struggling to succeed in New York City before his work visa expires, alongside Tilda Swinton.
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Julio Torres says he has always wanted to pursue a career in writing for comedy.