Juan Ramón Sánchez Guinot (Trillo, Guadalajara, 1957 — Madrid, 11 april 2008) was a Spanish actor who played Chema the baker in the Spanish Sesame Street co-production Barrio Sésamo. During the mid 1970s, Sánchez performed in a music group, Red de San Luis. Sánchez was married to Chelo Vivares, the actress who performed the full-bodied Muppet Espinete on Barrio Sésamo. They married before the beginning of their work together in 1983. Sánchez began his career on the TV series El Señor Villanueva y su gente, before becoming one of the most beloved human stars of Barrio Sésamo in the 1980s.