Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2189
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Adria Arjona 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.
Adria Arjona appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Adria. Blink Twice 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, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Gunn, Michael B. Jordan, Adam Wingard and others, Adria Arjona 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.
Blink Twice (2024) as Sarah · Hit Man (2024) as Madison Figueroa Masters · Sweet Girl (2021) as Amanda Cooper
Career snapshot
Ranked #2189 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2017–2027
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Blink Twice
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Hit Man
Most frequent director
James Gunn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With James Gunn
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. 6 Underground, Life of the Party, Pacific Rim: Uprising — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
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. 6 Underground, Life of the Party, Pacific Rim: Uprising.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | — | 6.33 films |
| Action | 6.43 films | 3.24 films |
| Thriller | 6.42 films | 3.95 films |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.53 films |
| Crime | — | 4.33 films |
| Romance | — | 5.15 films |
| Horror | 6.31 film | 3.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Leandra Flores.
Highest rated performance
2024Blink Twice
6.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2024Hit Man
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.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Madison Figueroa Masters
Directed by Richard Linklater
as Sarah
Directed by Zoë Kravitz
as Sofia Herrera
Directed by Gary Alazraki
as Amanda Cooper
Directed by Brian Andrew Mendoza
as Leandra Flores
Directed by Greg McLean
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
Madison Figueroa Masters
Hit Man (2024)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Madison Figueroa Masters gives Adria Arjona a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sarah
Blink Twice (2024)
Performance score7.0
Blink Twice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sarah is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sofia Herrera
Father of the Bride (2022)
Performance score6.9
Father of the Bride asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sofia Herrera is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Amanda Cooper
Sweet Girl (2021)
Performance score6.8
Sweet Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Amanda Cooper 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 Madison Figueroa Masters
Start here. Hit Man is the clearest statement of what Adria Arjona does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Adria 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 Belko Experiment (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Hit Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sweet Girl (2021)
Keeps the action register of The Belko Experiment but asks for a colder reading of it.
Father of the Bride (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Sweet Girl but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blink Twice (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Father of the Bride — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Greg McLean
Director
1 film together
Notably The Belko Experiment
Steven S. DeKnight
Director
1 film together
Notably Pacific Rim: Uprising
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably Life of the Party
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably 6 Underground
Brian Andrew Mendoza
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Girl
Gary Alazraki
Director
1 film together
Notably Father of the Bride
Daniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably Morbius
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Hit Man
Zoë Kravitz
Director
1 film together
Notably Blink Twice
Adam Wingard
Director
1 film together
Notably Onslaught
Michael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Thomas Crown Affair
James Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Man of Tomorrow
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Zoë Kravitz
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blink TwiceRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hit ManBrian Andrew Mendoza
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet GirlMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
6 UndergroundGary Alazraki
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father of the BrideSteven S. DeKnight
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pacific Rim: UprisingGreg McLean
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 Belko ExperimentBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Life of the PartyDaniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MorbiusJames Gunn
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Man of TomorrowMichael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Thomas Crown AffairAdam Wingard
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OnslaughtSix 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
Hit Man
as Madison Figueroa Masters
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Father of the Bride
as Sofia Herrera
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blink Twice
as Sarah
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Life of the Party
as Amanda
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hit Man
as Madison Figueroa Masters
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. Adria Arjona 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, 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
Blink Twice
as Sarah
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Blink Twice
as Sarah
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Father of the Bride
as Sofia Herrera
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blink Twice
as Sarah
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pacific Rim: Uprising
as Jules Reyes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pacific Rim: Uprising
as Jules Reyes
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Father of the Bride
as Sofia Herrera
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Absence of Eden
as Yadira
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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