Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#49153
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Yayo Aguila works on quiet performance 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.
Yayo Aguila appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yayo. A Werewolf Boy is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, drama, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jerry Lopez Sineneng, Dolly Dulu, Crisanto B. Aquino and others, Yayo Aguila 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.
A Werewolf Boy (2026) · Us in the End (2026) as Mela Alegre · 18th Rose (2026) as Mercy
Career snapshot
Ranked #49153 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
A Werewolf Boy
Average Nutevio score
5.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
A Werewolf Boy
Most frequent director
Jerry Lopez Sineneng
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jerry Lopez Sineneng
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 30m
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
2010s
6.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fuccbois — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.0
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. Fuccbois.
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 | 6.01 film | 5.06 films |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | 4.11 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.22 films |
| Romance | — | 5.55 films |
| Horror | — | 5.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Fuccbois
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Trisha.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026A Werewolf Boy
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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. 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.
10 of 10 films
Directed by Crisanto B. Aquino
as Mela Alegre
Directed by Unknown
as Mercy
Directed by Dolly Dulu
as Linda / Mico's Mom
Directed by Dwein Ruedas Baltazar
Directed by Jerry Lopez Sineneng
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
A Werewolf Boy
A Werewolf Boy (2026)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Yayo Aguila a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mela Alegre
Us in the End (2026)
Performance score8.4
Us in the End asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mela Alegre is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mercy
18th Rose (2026)
Performance score7.7
18th Rose asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mercy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Linda / Mico's Mom
Hello, Stranger: The Movie (2021)
Performance score6.6
Hello, Stranger: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Linda / Mico's Mom 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
Start here. A Werewolf Boy is the clearest statement of what Yayo Aguila does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yayo 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.
Hello, Stranger: The Movie (2021)
A deliberate change of key after A Werewolf Boy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Us in the End (2026)
Keeps the romance register of Hello, Stranger: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
18th Rose (2026)
Keeps the romance register of Us in the End but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Special Memory (2026)
Keeps the romance register of 18th Rose but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dwein Ruedas Baltazar
Director
1 film together
Notably Hello, Stranger: The Movie
Mac Alejandre
Director
1 film together
Notably May-December-January
Lawrence Fajardo
Director
1 film together
Notably Nightbird
Crisanto B. Aquino
Director
1 film together
Notably A Werewolf Boy
Dolly Dulu
Director
1 film together
Notably 18th Rose
Jerry Lopez Sineneng
Director
1 film together
Notably A Special Memory
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Crisanto B. Aquino
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Werewolf BoyDolly Dulu
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
18th RoseDwein Ruedas Baltazar
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hello, Stranger: The MovieMac Alejandre
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
May-December-JanuaryLawrence Fajardo
Director
1 film together · 4.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NightbirdJerry Lopez Sineneng
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Special MemorySix 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
A Werewolf Boy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Us in the End
as Mela Alegre
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Werewolf Boy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Werewolf Boy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Werewolf Boy
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. Yayo Aguila 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
A Werewolf Boy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Werewolf Boy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Us in the End
as Mela Alegre
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Us in the End
as Mela Alegre
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Werewolf Boy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
A Werewolf Boy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
18th Rose
as Mercy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fuccbois
as Trisha
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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