Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4625
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Santiago Segura represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Santiago is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Santiago Segura appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Santiago. Frankenstein is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 comedy, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Santiago Segura, Guillermo del Toro, Kevin Allen and others, Santiago Segura 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.
Frankenstein (2025) as Prisoner #2 · Father There Is Only One (2019) as Javier García · Pacific Rim (2013) as Wizened Man
Career snapshot
Ranked #4625 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Frankenstein
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Father There Is Only One
Most frequent director
Santiago Segura
8 films together
Longest collaboration
8×
With Santiago Segura
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.6
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Father There Is Only One, The Rodriguez and the Beyond, Pacific Rim — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law, Dance with the Devil, High Heels.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.81 film | — | — | 7.61 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | 6.64 films | 7.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.51 film | 6.81 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 5.91 film | 6.53 films | 6.47 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film | — | 7.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1991High Heels
Where our catalogue meets this career, as (uncredited).
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2025Frankenstein
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as José Luis Torrente.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Javier García
Directed by Santiago Segura
as Javier García
Directed by Santiago Segura
as Javier García
Directed by Santiago Segura
as Prisoner #2
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Javier García
Directed by Santiago Segura
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
Javier García
Father There Is Only One (2019)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Javier García gives Santiago Segura a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Javier García
Father There Is Only One 2 (2020)
Performance score7.7
Father There Is Only One 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Javier García is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Javier García
Padre no hay más que uno 3 (2022)
Performance score7.6
Padre no hay más que uno 3 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Javier García is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Prisoner #2
Frankenstein (2025)
Performance score7.4
Frankenstein asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Prisoner #2 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 Javier García
Start here. Father There Is Only One is the clearest statement of what Santiago Segura does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Santiago 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.
Father There Is Only One 2 (2020)
Same director as Father There Is Only One, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Padre no hay más que uno 3 (2022)
Same director as Father There Is Only One 2, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Father There is Only One 4 (2024)
Same director as Padre no hay más que uno 3, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Frankenstein (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Father There is Only One 4 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Santiago Segura
Director
8 films together
Notably Father There Is Only One
Guillermo del Toro
Director
5 films together
Notably Frankenstein
Pedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together
Notably High Heels
Álex de la Iglesia
Director
1 film together
Notably Dance with the Devil
Kevin Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Santiago Segura
Director
8 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 8 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Father There Is Only OneGuillermo del Toro
Director
5 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
FrankensteinPedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
High HeelsÁlex de la Iglesia
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dance with the DevilKevin Allen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination LondonSix 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
Frankenstein
as Prisoner #2
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Frankenstein
as Prisoner #2
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Frankenstein
as Prisoner #2
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Hellboy
as Train Driver
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Father There Is Only One
as Javier García
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. Santiago Segura 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
35 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
13 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
Frankenstein
as Prisoner #2
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Frankenstein
as Prisoner #2
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Frankenstein
as Prisoner #2
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
as Distinguished Buyer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pacific Rim
as Wizened Man
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Pacific Rim
as Wizened Man
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
High Heels
as (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2
as Papá Noel
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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