Guillermo Rodriguez (Jimmy Kimmel Live!)

Guillermo Rodriguez
Rodriguez in January 2013
Born	(1971-01-27) January 27, 1971 (age 46) Zacatecas, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican/American
Occupation	TV personality, security guard
Known for	Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Guillermo Rodriguez (born January 27, 1971), more commonly known as simply Guillermo, is a Mexican-American talk show personality who rose to fame while working as a parking lot security guard at the Hollywood Blvd studios for American late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He continues in character and title as Jimmy Kimmel Live's security guard, but actually performs nightly as Jimmy Kimmel's sidekick.

Rodriguez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico.

He quickly became a permanent, nightly cast-member after performing satisfactorily in comedy bits written by the show. Guillermo's English (characterized most clearly with his constant pronunciation of the show's host as "Yim-ee") coupled with his affable likability and Teddy Bear-like quality have earned him as high a profile as any supporting personality on the show. Guillermo has taken over main red-carpet interviewing duties from Kimmel's original choice for such events, the late "Uncle Frank" Potenza, whom he was often paired with for the show's comedic skits.

Guillermo's signature segment is "Guillermo's Hollywood Roundup", in which Guillermo, dressed in a cowboy outfit and pretending to twirl a special effect operated lasso, makes mockery of entertainment news shows featured widely on television. From outside the theater and standing next to his West Coast Customs-made "Guillermobile", he'll answer inquiries directed at him from Kimmel about the latest tabloid stories by simply taking a rack of tabloid magazines that the "Guillermobile" has been fitted with and attempting to interpret the stories in usually an unintentionally amusing and mis-translated way.

Another popular and recurring bit is announcing that Guillermo has a role in a current or recent major motion picture release and showing a clip of an at-first familiar trailer for said movie with Guillermo humorously edited in, his appearance often made-up to resemble a character in the movie. One of the more popular ones had been when he impersonated Matt Damon's character of Jason Bourne in The Bourne Ultimatum by responding when asked to be named, "I am Yay-son... Bourne Identity." A physical fight between Guillermo and Matt Damon's actual character ensued. He starred alongside Jimmy Kimmel in Boo! a spoof of Saw. Guillermo was also given the opportunity to run the first season's Wipeout Zone for the Top 25 Moments of Season 1, but he quit on the Barrel Run. He appeared as a special guest on the last episode of successful Univision telenovela Eva Luna on April 11, 2011.