Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#52963
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Angélica Aragón represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Angélica is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Angélica Aragón appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Angélica. A Walk in the Clouds is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Miguel Puga, Noé Santillán-López, Alonso Iñiguez and others, Angélica Aragón helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
A Walk in the Clouds (1995) as María José Aragón · El precio de educarlos (2024) as Contadora · The Casagrandes Movie (2024) as Mama Lupe (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #52963 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1984–2024
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
A Walk in the Clouds
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
A Walk in the Clouds
Most frequent director
Miguel Puga
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Miguel Puga
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
7.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. A Walk in the Clouds — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Dune.
Most productive era
2020s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.41 film | 6.22 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.94 films |
| Romance | — | 7.41 film | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1984Dune
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bene Gesserit Sister (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Mama Lupe (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
7 of 7 films
as María José Aragón
Directed by Alfonso Arau
as Mama Lupe (voice)
Directed by Miguel Puga
as Mamá De Carlos
Directed by Alonso Iñiguez
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
María José Aragón
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. María José Aragón gives Angélica Aragón a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Contadora
El precio de educarlos (2024)
Performance score7.4
El precio de educarlos asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Contadora is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mama Lupe (voice)
The Casagrandes Movie (2024)
Performance score7.1
The Casagrandes Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mama Lupe (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Abuela
Unhappily Ever After (2023)
Performance score7.1
Unhappily Ever After asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abuela is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as María José Aragón
Start here. A Walk in the Clouds is the clearest statement of what Angélica Aragón does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Angélica at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Sex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022)
Keeps the drama register of A Walk in the Clouds but asks for a colder reading of it.
Unhappily Ever After (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Sex, Shame and Tears 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
El precio de educarlos (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Unhappily Ever After but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Casagrandes Movie (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of El precio de educarlos but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Lynch
Director
1 film together
Notably Dune
Alfonso Arau
Director
1 film together
Notably A Walk in the Clouds
Alonso Iñiguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Sex, Shame and Tears 2
Noé Santillán-López
Director
1 film together
Notably Unhappily Ever After
Miguel Puga
Director
1 film together
Notably The Casagrandes Movie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alfonso Arau
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Walk in the CloudsMiguel Puga
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Casagrandes MovieNoé Santillán-López
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Unhappily Ever AfterAlonso Iñiguez
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sex, Shame and Tears 2David Lynch
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DuneSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dune
as Bene Gesserit Sister (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Angélica Aragón has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
40 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
El precio de educarlos
as Contadora
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
El precio de educarlos
as Contadora
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dune
as Bene Gesserit Sister (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Walk in the Clouds
as María José Aragón
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dune
as Bene Gesserit Sister (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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