Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10756
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Pedro Casablanc 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.
Pedro Casablanc appears in 30 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pedro. Pain and Glory is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 drama, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Diego Núñez Irigoyen, Esteban Roel, Arantxa Echevarría and others, Pedro Casablanc 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.
Pain and Glory (2019) as Dr. A. Galindo · Undercover (2024) as Superior de la Policía Nacional · You Keep the Kids (2021) as Jefe Víctor
Career snapshot
Ranked #10756 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
30
2008–2026
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Pain and Glory
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Soforem
Most frequent director
Pedro Almodóvar
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Pedro Almodóvar
Most common genre
Drama
18 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
6.2
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Che: Part Two — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Che: Part Two.
Most productive era
2020s
22 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 | 6.61 film | 6.54 films | 5.413 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.33 films | 6.48 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.91 film | 4.84 films |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | 6.34 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.42 films |
| Horror | — | — | 6.43 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Che: Part Two
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Colonel Joaquín Zenteno.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Pain and Glory
7.2 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
2026Go Team!
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.
30 of 30 films
as Dr. A. Galindo
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
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
Dr. A. Galindo
Pain and Glory (2019)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. A. Galindo gives Pedro Casablanc a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Obispo Alcalá
La luz (2026)
Performance score6.9
La luz asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Obispo Alcalá is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ignacio
The Talent (2025)
Performance score6.9
The Talent asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ignacio is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Arthur Koestler
Paraíso en llamas (2020)
Performance score6.9
Paraíso en llamas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Arthur Koestler 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 Dr. A. Galindo
Start here. Pain and Glory is the clearest statement of what Pedro Casablanc does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pedro 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.
Paraíso en llamas (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Pain and Glory — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Soforem (2024)
Same director as Paraíso en llamas, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Talent (2025)
Same director as Soforem, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
La luz (2026)
Same director as The Talent, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Pedro Almodóvar
Director
3 films together
Notably Pain and Glory
Fernando González Molina
Director
2 films together
Notably The Legacy of the Bones
Daniel Calparsoro
Director
2 films together
Notably Centauro
Javier Ruiz Caldera
Director
1 film together
Notably Superlopez
Gracia Querejeta
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invisible
Isabel Coixet
Director
1 film together
Notably It Snows in Benidorm
Dani de la Orden
Director
1 film together
Notably You Keep the Kids
John Madden
Director
1 film together
Notably Operation Mincemeat
Lucie Borleteau
Director
1 film together
Notably My Sole Desire
Carlos Therón
Director
1 film together
Notably Phenomena
Arantxa Echevarría
Director
1 film together
Notably Undercover
Esteban Roel
Director
1 film together
Notably Tabula Rasa
Diego Núñez Irigoyen
Director
1 film together
Notably Go Team!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Pedro Almodóvar
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pain and GloryFernando 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 BonesDaniel Calparsoro
Director
2 films together · 6.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
CentauroArantxa Echevarría
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UndercoverDani de la Orden
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Keep the KidsEsteban Roel
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tabula RasaLucie Borleteau
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Sole DesireJohn Madden
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Operation MincemeatGracia Querejeta
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InvisibleCarlos Therón
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PhenomenaIsabel Coixet
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It Snows in BenidormJavier Ruiz Caldera
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuperlopezDiego Núñez Irigoyen
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Go Team!Six 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
Pain and Glory
as Dr. A. Galindo
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Sole Desire
as Pablo
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pain and Glory
as Dr. A. Galindo
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Che: Part Two
as Colonel Joaquín Zenteno
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pain and Glory
as Dr. A. Galindo
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. Pedro Casablanc 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
18 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 Comisario General de Pamplona
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Soforem
as Juez
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Sole Desire
as Pablo
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Legacy of the Bones
as Comisario General de Pamplona
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pain and Glory
as Dr. A. Galindo
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Centauro
as Comisario García
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Che: Part Two
as Colonel Joaquín Zenteno
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
AYÚDAME
as Pedro
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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