Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#78698
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Santiago Urrialde represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Santiago is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Santiago Urrialde appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Santiago. Padre no hay más que uno 3 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, comedy, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, family, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Santiago Segura, Santiago Urrialde 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.
Padre no hay más que uno 3 (2022) as Vendedor figurilla · Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law (1998) as Policía · Torrente for President (2026) as El chopo
Career snapshot
Ranked #78698 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Padre no hay más que uno 3
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Padre no hay más que uno 3
Most frequent director
Santiago Segura
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Santiago Segura
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 21m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.5
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law.
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 | 1990s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 5.15 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Policía.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Padre no hay más que uno 3
7.0 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
2026¿Me entiendes o te lo explico?
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.
6 of 6 films
as Vendedor figurilla
Directed by Santiago Segura
Directed by Unknown
as Cocinero Crepes
Directed by Santiago Segura
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
Vendedor figurilla
Padre no hay más que uno 3 (2022)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vendedor figurilla gives Santiago Urrialde a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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El chopo
Torrente for President (2026)
Performance score6.5
Torrente for President asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. El chopo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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¿Me entiendes o te lo explico?
¿Me entiendes o te lo explico? (2026)
Performance score6.5
¿Me entiendes o te lo explico? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cocinero Crepes
Summer Vacation (2023)
Performance score6.5
Summer Vacation asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cocinero Crepes 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 Vendedor figurilla
Start here. Padre no hay más que uno 3 is the clearest statement of what Santiago Urrialde does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Santiago 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 Kids Are Alright: Destination Asturias (2021)
Same director as Padre no hay más que uno 3, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Summer Vacation (2023)
Same director as The Kids Are Alright: Destination Asturias, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Torrente for President (2026)
Same director as Summer Vacation, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
¿Me entiendes o te lo explico? (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Torrente for President but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Santiago Segura
Director
5 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Padre no hay más que uno 3Six 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
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
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 El chopo
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
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. Santiago Urrialde 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
28 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
6 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
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
as Policía
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
as Policía
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Padre no hay más que uno 3
as Vendedor figurilla
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law
as Policía
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Summer Vacation
as Cocinero Crepes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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