Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#74036
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Patricia López Arnaiz 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.
Patricia López Arnaiz appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patricia. While at War is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, science fiction, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Andrea Jaurrieta, David Pérez Sañudo and others, Patricia López Arnaiz 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.
While at War (2019) as María · Sundays (2025) as Maite · Beyond the Summit (2022) as Ione
Career snapshot
Ranked #74036 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2019–2025
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
While at War
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Beyond the Summit
Most frequent director
David Pérez Sañudo
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Pérez Sañudo
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. While at War, The Legacy of the Bones — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. While at War, The Legacy of the Bones.
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 | 6.81 film | 5.36 films |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 6.35 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance
2019While at War
Where our catalogue meets this career, as María. 6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Singular
The current state of the argument, as Diana.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Ione
Directed by Ibon Cormenzana
as Nina
Directed by Andrea Jaurrieta
as Lide
Directed by David Pérez Sañudo
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
Maite
Sundays (2025)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Maite gives Patricia López Arnaiz a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ione
Beyond the Summit (2022)
Performance score7.1
Beyond the Summit asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ione is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nina
Nina (2024)
Performance score7.0
Nina asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nina is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Diana
Singular (2025)
Performance score6.8
Singular asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diana 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 Maite
Start here. Sundays is the clearest statement of what Patricia López Arnaiz does — accessible, 112 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patricia 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.
Ane Is Missing (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Sundays but asks for a colder reading of it.
Beyond the Summit (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Ane Is Missing but asks for a colder reading of it.
Nina (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Beyond the Summit but asks for a colder reading of it.
Singular (2025)
Keeps the thriller register of Nina but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Fernando González Molina
Director
2 films together
Notably The Legacy of the Bones
David Pérez Sañudo
Director
2 films together
Notably Ane Is Missing
Ibon Cormenzana
Director
1 film together
Notably Beyond the Summit
Andrea Jaurrieta
Director
1 film together
Notably Nina
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Director
1 film together
Notably Sundays
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Fernando González Molina
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Legacy of the BonesDavid Pérez Sañudo
Director
2 films together · 3.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ane Is MissingAlauda Ruiz de Azúa
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SundaysIbon Cormenzana
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beyond the SummitAndrea Jaurrieta
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NinaSix 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
While at War
as María
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 Ione
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
While at War
as María
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Offering to the Storm
as Rosaura Salazar
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sundays
as Maite
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. Patricia López Arnaiz 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
7 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 Legacy of the Bones
as Rosaura Salazar
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Legacy of the Bones
as Rosaura Salazar
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Beyond the Summit
as Ione
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Legacy of the Bones
as Rosaura Salazar
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Beyond the Summit
as Ione
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Beyond the Summit
as Ione
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
While at War
as María
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Singular
as Diana
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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