Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5975
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Juan Pablo Raba 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.
Juan Pablo Raba appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Juan. Shot Caller is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 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 mystery, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Diego Velasco, Pierre Morel, Robert Lorenz and others, Juan Pablo Raba 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.
Shot Caller (2017) as Herman Gomez · The Marksman (2021) as Maurico · Peppermint (2018) as Diego Garcia
Career snapshot
Ranked #5975 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Shot Caller
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Shot Caller
Most frequent director
Pierre Morel
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Pierre Morel
Most common genre
Thriller
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. 7 Days in Entebbe, Peppermint, Shot Caller — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. 7 Days in Entebbe, Peppermint, Shot Caller.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 6.43 films | 6.81 film |
| Action | 6.71 film | 6.23 films |
| Thriller | 6.53 films | 5.83 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.41 film |
| Crime | 6.52 films | 5.41 film |
| Horror | — | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2015The 33
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Darío Segovia.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Shot Caller
7.0 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.
Most recent film
2026The Whistler
The current state of the argument, as Sebastian Castillo.
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.
8 of 8 films
as President Juan Venegas
Directed by Pierre Morel
as Diego Garcia
Directed by Pierre Morel
as Herman Gomez
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
as Maurico
Directed by Robert Lorenz
as Sebastian Castillo
Directed by Diego Velasco
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
President Juan Venegas
Freelance (2023)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. President Juan Venegas gives Juan Pablo Raba a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Diego Garcia
Peppermint (2018)
Performance score6.9
Peppermint asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diego Garcia is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Herman Gomez
Shot Caller (2017)
Performance score6.9
Shot Caller asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Herman Gomez is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Maurico
The Marksman (2021)
Performance score6.7
The Marksman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maurico 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 President Juan Venegas
Start here. Freelance is the clearest statement of what Juan Pablo Raba does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Juan 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.
Shot Caller (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Freelance — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Peppermint (2018)
Keeps the thriller register of Shot Caller but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Marksman (2021)
Keeps the action register of Peppermint but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Whistler (2026)
Keeps the thriller register of The Marksman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Pierre Morel
Director
2 films together
Notably Peppermint
Patricia Riggen
Director
1 film together
Notably The 33
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Shot Caller
José Padilha
Director
1 film together
Notably 7 Days in Entebbe
Robert Lorenz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marksman
Diego Velasco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whistler
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Pierre Morel
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
PeppermintRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shot CallerRobert Lorenz
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MarksmanPatricia Riggen
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 33José Padilha
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
7 Days in EntebbeDiego Velasco
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WhistlerSix 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
Shot Caller
as Herman Gomez
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The 33
as Darío Segovia
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Shot Caller
as Herman Gomez
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shot Caller
as Herman Gomez
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Freelance
as President Juan Venegas
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. Juan Pablo Raba 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Shot Caller
as Herman Gomez
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Shot Caller
as Herman Gomez
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The 33
as Darío Segovia
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Whistler
as Sebastian Castillo
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Marksman
as Maurico
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Peppermint
as Diego Garcia
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Shot Caller
as Herman Gomez
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
7 Days in Entebbe
as Juan Pablo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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