
Diego Calva
Actor · Born March 16, 1992 (34) · Mexico City, Mexico
Golden Globe nominee · Screen Actors Guild Award nominee
Diego Calva Hernández (born 16 March 1992) is a Mexican actor best known for starring in the crime drama television series Narcos: Mexico (2021) and the black comedy-drama film Babylon (2022). For the latter, he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Musical or Comedy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diego Calva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- March 16, 1992 (34)
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Actor
- 14 on MovieCove · 28 credits in all
What are Diego Calva's films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 6
Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 5
A split, not a type: Grounded 3 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 1
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 1
Casual 1 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 4
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 2
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 2 of 4 analyzed roles.
- Heroas Miguel in I Promise You Anarchy (2015)
- Heroas Manny Torres in Babylon (2022)
- Allyas Carlitos in City of Dreams (2023)
- Allyas Marcus in Midnight Family (2024)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet6
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Diego Calva's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 11 of their 14 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (6).
Subscription and free streaming for Diego Calva's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
28 credits, 14 with a MovieCove page; 3 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Possession (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)

Club Kid(2026)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Her Private Hell(2026)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
Killing Castro(2026)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
On Swift Horses(2024)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Video Game Auteur (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

Prison Cell 211(2025)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
The Secret of the River(2024)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Midnight Family(2024)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
City of Dreams(2023)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Sharp Wounds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

Bird Box: Barcelona(2023)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Babylon(2022)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Beautiful Losers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

Tigers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

Unstoppable (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

ColOZio (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

Sleeping Dogs Lie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

Narcos: Mexico(2018)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
The Inmate(2018)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows
Help Me Make It Through the Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

Otro muerto (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

The Night Manager(2016)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
I Promise You Anarchy(2015)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Baton (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Domani (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

Drama King (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Glamour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 97th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 28 titles, 22 of them dated from 2015 to 2026; peak year 2022.

Biggest box office
Babylon (2022)

Highest rated
The Secret of the River (2024)

Most popular right now
Babylon (2022)
Film career
Peak 2022 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 5 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2015Screen debut· I Promise You Anarchy
- 2015First top-billed film· I Promise You Anarchy
- 2022Breakout· Babylon
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
Awards
2 major nominations and no wins, 2023.
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Diego Calva's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 58th percentile, the median of all 8; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 54th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 14 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Loved with Detractors1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the acting 69/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles; fans 80, detractors 43. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Diego Calva's work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity runs heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Diego Calva work with?
People who share at least 2 of Diego Calva's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Gibrán Portela shares the most, 2.
Writers
- Gibrán PortelaShared titles: Prison Cell 211 (2025), Midnight Family (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Gibrán Portela
Actors
- Renata VacaShared titles: Midnight Family (2024), City of Dreams (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Renata Vaca

Composers
- Andrés SánchezShared titles: Prison Cell 211 (2025), The Secret of the River (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Andrés Sánchez

- Gus ReyesShared titles: Prison Cell 211 (2025), The Secret of the River (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Gus Reyes

Mixed roles
- Colleen CampShared titles: Club Kid (2026), City of Dreams (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Colleen Camp

- Yalitza AparicioShared titles: Midnight Family (2024), City of Dreams (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Yalitza Aparicio
