Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4808
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ana de la Reguera 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.
Ana de la Reguera appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ana. Un hombre por semana 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ana de la Reguera, Adrian Molina, Ariel Winograd and others, Ana de la Reguera 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.
Un hombre por semana (2026) as Monica · Una pequeña confusión (2024) as Lola · The Book of Life (2014) as Carmen Sánchez (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4808 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2006–2026
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Un hombre por semana
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Book of Life
Most frequent director
Ana de la Reguera
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ana de la Reguera
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
6.5
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Un hombre por semana, Elio, Una pequeña confusión — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Nacho Libre.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 7.42 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 5.72 films | 6.62 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.71 film | 6.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 5.61 film | 7.34 films |
| Crime | — | 5.61 film | 6.21 film |
| Romance | — | — | 7.51 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Nacho Libre
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sister Encarnación.
Highest rated performance
2014The Book of Life
7.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Monica.
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 Monica
Directed by Ana de la Reguera
as Adela
Directed by Everardo Gout
as Carmen Sánchez (voice)
Directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez
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
Monica
Un hombre por semana (2026)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Monica gives Ana de la Reguera a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lola
Una pequeña confusión (2024)
Performance score8.1
Una pequeña confusión asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lola is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Adela
The Forever Purge (2021)
Performance score7.5
The Forever Purge asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Adela is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mari
¡Que viva México! (2023)
Performance score7.4
¡Que viva México! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mari 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 Monica
Start here. Un hombre por semana is the clearest statement of what Ana de la Reguera does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ana 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 Book of Life (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Un hombre por semana — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Forever Purge (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Book of Life — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
¡Que viva México! (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Forever Purge — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Una pequeña confusión (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of ¡Que viva México! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jared Hess
Director
1 film together
Notably Nacho Libre
Kevin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Cop Out
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably Cowboys & Aliens
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Life
Everardo Gout
Director
1 film together
Notably The Forever Purge
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Army of the Dead
Luis Estrada
Director
1 film together
Notably ¡Que viva México!
Ariel Winograd
Director
1 film together
Notably Una pequeña confusión
Adrian Molina
Director
1 film together
Notably Elio
Ana de la Reguera
Director
1 film together
Notably Un hombre por semana
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ana de la Reguera
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Un hombre por semanaAriel Winograd
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Una pequeña confusiónJorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Book of LifeLuis Estrada
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
¡Que viva México!Adrian Molina
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElioEverardo Gout
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Forever PurgeJared Hess
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nacho LibreZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Army of the DeadJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cowboys & AliensKevin Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cop OutSix 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
Una pequeña confusión
as Lola
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Un hombre por semana
as Monica
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Book of Life
as Carmen Sánchez (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Book of Life
as Carmen Sánchez (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Un hombre por semana
as Monica
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. Ana de la Reguera 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
20 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
The Book of Life
as Carmen Sánchez (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Forever Purge
as Adela
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Un hombre por semana
as Monica
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Book of Life
as Carmen Sánchez (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Forever Purge
as Adela
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Cowboys & Aliens
as Maria
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Un hombre por semana
as Monica
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Cop Out
as Gabriela
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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