Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7684
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eugenio Derbez 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.
Eugenio Derbez appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eugenio. Radical is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Zalla, Sian Heder, Jorge Ulloa and others, Eugenio Derbez 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.
Radical (2023) as Sergio · CODA (2021) as Bernardo Villalobos · Dedicated to my ex (2019) as Nixon
Career snapshot
Ranked #7684 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2007–2023
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Radical
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Radical
Most frequent director
Christopher Zalla
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Christopher Zalla
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Radical, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Valet — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
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. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Under the Same Moon.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | 7.41 film | 7.71 film | 7.63 films |
| Action | — | 6.62 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.41 film | 6.65 films | 6.82 films |
| Romance | 5.41 film | 6.71 film | 7.63 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Enrique.
Highest rated performance
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2023Radical
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2023Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The current state of the argument, as Jaime Mendoza.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Bernardo Villalobos
Directed by Sian Heder
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
Sergio
Radical (2023)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sergio gives Eugenio Derbez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Antonio Flores
The Valet (2022)
Performance score8.1
The Valet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Antonio Flores is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jaime Mendoza
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2023)
Performance score7.8
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jaime Mendoza is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bernardo Villalobos
CODA (2021)
Performance score7.7
CODA asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bernardo Villalobos 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 Sergio
Start here. Radical is the clearest statement of what Eugenio Derbez does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eugenio 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.
Dedicated to my ex (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Radical but asks for a colder reading of it.
CODA (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Dedicated to my ex but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Valet (2022)
Keeps the romance register of CODA but asks for a colder reading of it.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2023)
Same director as The Valet, 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.
Patricia Riggen
Director
1 film together
Notably Under the Same Moon
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack and Jill
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Book of Life
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Be a Latin Lover
Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Geostorm
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Rob Greenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Overboard
Thurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Angry Birds Movie 2
Jorge Ulloa
Director
1 film together
Notably Dedicated to my ex
Sian Heder
Director
1 film together
Notably CODA
Christopher Zalla
Director
1 film together
Notably Radical
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Zalla
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RadicalSian Heder
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CODAJorge Ulloa
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dedicated to my exJorge 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 LifePatricia Riggen
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Under the Same MoonThurop Van Orman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Angry Birds Movie 2Ken Marino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Be a Latin LoverRob Greenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OverboardJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nutcracker and the Four RealmsDean Devlin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GeostormRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beverly Hills ChihuahuaDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack and JillSix 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
Radical
as Sergio
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
CODA
as Bernardo Villalobos
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dedicated to my ex
as Nixon
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Store Owner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Radical
as Sergio
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. Eugenio Derbez 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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 Chato (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Glenn (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
as Jaime Mendoza
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Hawthorne
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Glenn (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Glenn (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Glenn (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Glenn (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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