Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#16710
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Javier Gutiérrez 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.
Javier Gutiérrez appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Javier. Mirage 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 comedy, drama, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Santiago Segura, Gracia Querejeta, Luis Prieto and others, Javier Gutiérrez 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.
Mirage (2018) as Ángel Prieto · Band Together (2025) as Luis · Prison 77 (2022) as Pino
Career snapshot
Ranked #16710 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Mirage
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Mirage
Most frequent director
Santiago Segura
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Santiago Segura
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.2
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
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mirage, Assassin's Creed — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Mirage, Assassin's Creed.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.51 film | 6.74 films |
| Action | 5.51 film | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | 7.51 film | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.13 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | 5.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Assassin's Creed
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tomas de Torquemada.
Highest rated performance
2018Mirage
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Band Together
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Landa
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Ángel Prieto
Directed by Oriol Paulo
as Javier
Directed by Àlex Pastor
as Martín
Directed by Lluís Quílez
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The defining work
#1
Luis
Band Together (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Luis gives Javier Gutiérrez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ángel Prieto
Mirage (2018)
Performance score7.8
Mirage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ángel Prieto is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pino
Prison 77 (2022)
Performance score7.4
Prison 77 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pino is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Javier
The Occupant (2020)
Performance score7.1
The Occupant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Javier 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 Luis
Start here. Band Together is the clearest statement of what Javier Gutiérrez does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Javier 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.
Mirage (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Band Together but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Occupant (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Mirage but asks for a colder reading of it.
Below Zero (2021)
Keeps the thriller register of The Occupant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Prison 77 (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Below Zero — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassin's Creed
Oriol Paulo
Director
1 film together
Notably Mirage
Àlex Pastor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Occupant
Lluís Quílez
Director
1 film together
Notably Below Zero
Nacho G. Velilla
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrow Is Today
Alberto Rodríguez
Director
1 film together
Notably Prison 77
Luis Prieto
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Stop: Rocafort St.
Gracia Querejeta
Director
1 film together
Notably Landa
Santiago Segura
Director
1 film together
Notably Torrente for President
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Oriol Paulo
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MirageAlberto Rodríguez
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Prison 77Gracia Querejeta
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LandaÀlex Pastor
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 OccupantNacho G. Velilla
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tomorrow Is TodayLluís Quílez
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Below ZeroSantiago Segura
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Torrente for PresidentJustin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassin's CreedLuis Prieto
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Stop: Rocafort St.Six 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
Mirage
as Ángel Prieto
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Band Together
as Luis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mirage
as Ángel Prieto
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Torrente for President
as Solís
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Band Together
as Luis
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. Javier Gutiérrez 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.
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
5 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
Mirage
as Ángel Prieto
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mirage
as Ángel Prieto
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Band Together
as Luis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mirage
as Ángel Prieto
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mirage
as Ángel Prieto
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Assassin's Creed
as Tomas de Torquemada
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Band Together
as Luis
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Assassin's Creed
as Tomas de Torquemada
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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