Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2813
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Maximiliano Hernández 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.
Maximiliano Hernández appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maximiliano. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. 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 Akin Omotoso, Anthony Russo, Denis Villeneuve and others, Maximiliano Hernández 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.
Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Agent Sitwell · The Avengers (2012) as Agent Jasper Sitwell · Warrior (2011) as Colt Boyd
Career snapshot
Ranked #2813 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2000–2022
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Avengers: Endgame
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Avengers: Endgame
Most frequent director
Anthony Russo
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Anthony Russo
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 4m
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
6.8
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
7.5 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Rise, Stargirl — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.5
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. Hotel for Dogs, Pride and Glory, The Yards.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.32 films | 6.52 films | 7.52 films |
| Action | — | 7.86 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 5.31 film | 7.41 film |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Romance | — | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000The Yards
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bartender.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2022Rise
The current state of the argument, as OKC Thunder Rep.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Agent Sitwell
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Agent Jasper Sitwell
Directed by Joss Whedon
as Colt Boyd
Directed by Gavin O'Connor
as Jasper Sitwell
Directed by Anthony Russo
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
Agent Sitwell
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Agent Sitwell gives Maximiliano Hernández a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Agent Jasper Sitwell
The Avengers (2012)
Performance score8.0
The Avengers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Agent Jasper Sitwell is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Colt Boyd
Warrior (2011)
Performance score7.6
Warrior asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Colt Boyd is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Robineau
Stargirl (2020)
Performance score7.5
Stargirl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Robineau 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 Agent Sitwell
Start here. Avengers: Endgame is the clearest statement of what Maximiliano Hernández does — accessible, 181 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maximiliano 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.
Warrior (2011)
Keeps the action register of Avengers: Endgame but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Avengers (2012)
Keeps the action register of Warrior but asks for a colder reading of it.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Keeps the action register of The Avengers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stargirl (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Captain America: The Winter Soldier — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gavin O'Connor
Director
2 films together
Notably Warrior
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together
Notably Avengers: Endgame
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Hotel for Dogs
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor
Joss Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Avengers
Denis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together
Notably Sicario
Akin Omotoso
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together · 8.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: EndgameGavin O'Connor
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
WarriorJoss Whedon
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AvengersAkin Omotoso
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RiseDenis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SicarioKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ThorThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hotel for DogsSix 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
The Avengers
as Agent Jasper Sitwell
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stargirl
as Mr. Robineau
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
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. Maximiliano Hernández 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
22 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 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
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stargirl
as Mr. Robineau
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Pride and Glory
as Carlos Bragon
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stargirl
as Mr. Robineau
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Endgame
as Agent Sitwell
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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