Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#44258
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Kandido Uranga 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.
Kandido Uranga appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kandido. Beyond the Summit is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, family, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ana Vázquez, Manuel Sanabria, Jose Mari Goenaga and others, Kandido Uranga 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.
Beyond the Summit (2022) as Manuel · Seventeen (2019) as Cura · Decorado (2025) as Búho Gigante / Ermitaño (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #44258 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Beyond the Summit
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Beyond the Summit
Most frequent director
Ana Vázquez
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ana Vázquez
Most common genre
Thriller
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
6.1
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. 70 Big Ones, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, Seventeen — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. 70 Big Ones, Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City, Seventeen.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 6.53 films | 6.63 films |
| Action | 5.71 film | — |
| Thriller | 5.61 film | 4.95 films |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | 6.72 films |
| Crime | 5.71 film | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
201970 Big Ones
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ledesma.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.7 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
2026Kraken. The Black Book of Hours
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.
13 of 13 films
as Manuel
Directed by Ibon Cormenzana
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
Manuel
Beyond the Summit (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Manuel gives Kandido Uranga a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cura
Seventeen (2019)
Performance score7.4
Seventeen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cura is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Búho Gigante / Ermitaño (voice)
Decorado (2025)
Performance score7.2
Decorado asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Búho Gigante / Ermitaño (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Xanti
Maspalomas (2025)
Performance score7.1
Maspalomas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Xanti 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 Manuel
Start here. Beyond the Summit is the clearest statement of what Kandido Uranga does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kandido 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.
Seventeen (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Beyond the Summit but asks for a colder reading of it.
Out in the Open (2019)
Same director as Seventeen, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Decorado (2025)
Same director as Out in the Open, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Maspalomas (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Decorado — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Daniel Calparsoro
Director
1 film together
Notably Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
Koldo Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably 70 Big Ones
Mar Targarona
Director
1 film together
Notably Two
Ibon Cormenzana
Director
1 film together
Notably Beyond the Summit
Jose Mari Goenaga
Director
1 film together
Notably Maspalomas
Manuel Sanabria
Director
1 film together
Notably Kraken. The Black Book of Hours
Ana Vázquez
Director
1 film together
Notably Abuela tremenda
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ibon Cormenzana
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beyond the SummitJose Mari Goenaga
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaspalomasAna Vázquez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Abuela tremendaManuel Sanabria
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kraken. The Black Book of HoursKoldo Serra
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
70 Big OnesDaniel Calparsoro
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Twin Murders: The Silence of the White CityMar Targarona
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwoSix 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
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
as Twins' Father (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
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. Kandido Uranga 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kraken. The Black Book of Hours
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Beyond the Summit
as Manuel
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
70 Big Ones
as Ledesma
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Elcano & Magellan: The First Voyage Around the World
as Álvaro Dacosta (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Out in the Open
as El Viejo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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