Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5517
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Edgar Ramírez works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Edgar Ramírez appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Edgar. The Bourne Ultimatum is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 drama, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eli Roth, Jacques Audiard, Simon Kinberg and others, Edgar Ramírez 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.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) as Paz · Jungle Cruise (2021) as Lope de Aguirre · Resistance (2020) as Sigmund (Elsbeth's Father)
Career snapshot
Ranked #5517 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
2005–2025
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Bourne Ultimatum
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Bourne Ultimatum
Most frequent director
Eli Roth
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eli Roth
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.4
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
2000s
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Vantage Point, Che: Part One, The Bourne Ultimatum — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Vantage Point, Che: Part One, The Bourne Ultimatum.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.74 films | 6.45 films | 6.45 films |
| Action | 6.63 films | 6.02 films | 6.24 films |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 6.36 films | 6.15 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.53 films |
| Crime | 6.22 films | 6.03 films | 6.41 film |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Domino
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Choco.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.5 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
2025It Would Be Night in Caracas
The current state of the argument.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Lope de Aguirre
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
as Paz
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as Roberto Duran
Directed by Unknown
as Carlos Torres
Directed by Miguel Arteta
as Sigmund (Elsbeth's Father)
Directed by Unknown
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
Lope de Aguirre
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lope de Aguirre gives Edgar Ramírez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Paz
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Performance score7.6
The Bourne Ultimatum asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roberto Duran
Hands of Stone (2016)
Performance score7.3
Hands of Stone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roberto Duran is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carlos Torres
YES DAY (2021)
Performance score7.1
YES DAY asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carlos Torres is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Lope de Aguirre
Start here. Jungle Cruise is the clearest statement of what Edgar Ramírez does — accessible, 127 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Edgar 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.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Jungle Cruise — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hands of Stone (2016)
Keeps the drama register of The Bourne Ultimatum but asks for a colder reading of it.
Resistance (2020)
Same director as Hands of Stone, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
YES DAY (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Resistance — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Domino
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bourne Ultimatum
Pete Travis
Director
1 film together
Notably Vantage Point
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably Zero Dark Thirty
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Wrath of the Titans
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Counselor
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably Deliver Us from Evil
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Joy
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
Tate Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Girl on the Train
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably Bright
Olivier Assayas
Director
1 film together
Notably Wasp Network
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungle Cruise
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably YES DAY
Simon Kinberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The 355
Jacques Audiard
Director
1 film together
Notably Emilia Pérez
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Borderlands
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bourne UltimatumJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jungle CruiseKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zero Dark ThirtyMiguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
YES DAYStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JoyJacques Audiard
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Emilia PérezTate Taylor
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Girl on the TrainPete Travis
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vantage PointScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deliver Us from EvilDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BrightOlivier Assayas
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wasp NetworkSimon Kinberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 355Tony Scott
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DominoJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wrath of the TitansEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BorderlandsRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CounselorSix 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
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Paz
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Wasp Network
as René
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Paz
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Che: Part One
as Ciro Redondo García
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Jungle Cruise
as Lope de Aguirre
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. Edgar Ramírez 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
20 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in drama, 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
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Paz
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Paz
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Wasp Network
as René
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Girl on the Train
as Dr. Kamal Abdic
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Paz
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
It Would Be Night in Caracas
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Resistance
as Sigmund (Elsbeth's Father)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Paz
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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