Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#60731
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Susana Pampín is the performer our scores keep defending against the popular vote — a career of films that get better the further you stand from their release week.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Susana Pampín appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Susana. Argentina 1985 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Luis Ortega, Santiago Mitre, Susana Pampín 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.
Argentina 1985 (2022) as Madre Luis · Fire Supply (2024) as Madre del sanjuanino · Kill the Jockey (2024) as Doctor
Career snapshot
Ranked #60731 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2022–2024
Career length
2 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Argentina 1985
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Argentina 1985
Most frequent director
Luis Ortega
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Luis Ortega
Most common genre
Drama
7 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
6.8
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Fire Supply, The Agronomist, Kill the Jockey — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Fire Supply, The Agronomist, Kill the Jockey.
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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 6.57 films |
| Thriller | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.44 films |
| Crime | 7.02 films |
| Romance | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Argentina 1985
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Madre Luis. 7.4 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
2024León
The current state of the argument, as Débora.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Madre Luis
Directed by Santiago Mitre
as Madre del sanjuanino
Directed by Unknown
as Marcela
Directed by Unknown
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
Madre Luis
Argentina 1985 (2022)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Madre Luis gives Susana Pampín a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Terminal Young
Terminal Young (2023)
Performance score7.0
Terminal Young asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Madre del sanjuanino
Fire Supply (2024)
Performance score6.7
Fire Supply asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Madre del sanjuanino is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Débora
León (2024)
Performance score6.7
León asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Débora 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 Madre Luis
Start here. Argentina 1985 is the clearest statement of what Susana Pampín does — accessible, 141 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Susana 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.
Terminal Young (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Argentina 1985 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fire Supply (2024)
Same director as Terminal Young, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
León (2024)
Same director as Fire Supply, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Agronomist (2024)
Same director as León, 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.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Santiago Mitre
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Argentina 1985Luis Ortega
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kill the JockeySix 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
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
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 Agronomist
as Marcela
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
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. Susana Pampín 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 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
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Agronomist
as Marcela
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Doll
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Argentina 1985
as Madre Luis
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kill the Jockey
as Doctor
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Doll
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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