---
name: "Diego Calva"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/diego-calva"
fi1m_id: "diego-calva"
imdb_id: "nm3886586"
tmdb_id: 1413390
wikidata_id: "Q95817312"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 March 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 61
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-24T04:06:47.387775+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Diego Calva

## Identity

Diego Calva

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/diego-calva
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** diego-calva
- **IMDb ID:** nm3886586
- **TMDB ID:** 1413390
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95817312
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Calva, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95817312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3886586/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1413390

Actor. Born 16 March 1992 in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 March 1992, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Also known as:** Diego Calva Hernández
- **Golden Globes:** 1 Golden Globe nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 61, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 41 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Calva, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95817312, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3886586/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1413390

## Coming up

- *Club Kid* (2026-11-04), as Oscar — [page](https://film.one/film/club-kid.md)
- *Possession* (2027-06-10)

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Night Manager*](https://film.one/tv/the-night-manager.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Diego Calva Hernández is a Mexican actor. Born in Mexico City in 1992, he studied film directing and screenwriting at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. He worked in various crew roles before turning to acting and made his feature debut in the 2015 independent film *I Promise You Anarchy*.

Calva gained wider recognition for his role as Arturo Beltrán Leyva in the series *Narcos: Mexico* (2021). He played Manny Torres in Damien Chazelle's *Babylon* (2022), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. His television credits include a role in the second season of *The Night Manager*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Her Private Hell* (2026), Fi1m 41, as Nico — [page](https://film.one/film/her-private-hell.md)
- *The Night Manager* (2016), Fi1m 81, as Teddy Dos Santos — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-night-manager.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Possession* (2027), Actor
- *Club Kid* (2026), as Oscar — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/club-kid.md)
- *Her Private Hell* (2026), as Nico — Fi1m 41, [page](https://film.one/film/her-private-hell.md)
- *Killing Castro* (2026), as Ernesto Guevara
- *On Swift Horses* (2025), as Henry
- *Video Game Auteur* (2025), as Chris
- *Prison Cell 211* (2025), series, as Juan Olvera
- *The Secret of the River* (2024), series, as Erik
- *Midnight Family* (2024), series, as Marcus Tamayo
- *City of Dreams* (2024), as Carlitos
- *Sharp Wounds* (2023), Casting Consultant
- *Bird Box Barcelona* (2023), as Octavio
- *Babylon* (2022), as Manny Torres
- *Beautiful Losers* (2021), Actor
- *Tigers* (2020), as Azur
- *Unstoppable* (2020), series, as Joshua
- *ColOZio* (2020), Actor
- *Sleeping Dogs Lie* (2019), as The Local
- *Narcos: Mexico* (2018), series, as Arturo Bertrán Leyva, Arturo Beltrán Leyva
- *The Inmate* (2018), series, as El Rubio
- *Help Me Make It Through the Night* (2018), as Luis
- *Otro muerto* (2017), as Alejandro
- *The Night Manager* (2016), series, as Teddy Dos Santos — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-night-manager.md)
- *I Promise You Anarchy* (2015), as Miguel
- *Baton*, as Pedro
- *Drama King*, as Rodrigo Rojas
- *Domani*, Actor
- *Glamour*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Diego Calva, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-4bd5f5c1c4f4.jpg) Diego Calva, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Diego Calva](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-fd8ae2a598da.jpg) Diego Calva — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Diego Calva, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-c90e8951ea4f.jpg) Diego Calva, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Diego Calva, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-57e7f627617a.jpg) Diego Calva, actor in 'On Swift Horses', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg/1280px-Diego_Calva_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Diego Calva](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-7264a3368d6f.jpg) Diego Calva — Image via TMDB
- ![Diego Calva](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-2ab5eca7c0a8.jpg) Diego Calva — Image via TMDB
- ![Diego Calva](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-ed63edcf06cd.jpg) Diego Calva — Image via TMDB
- ![Diego Calva at a photo call for Kering Women in Motion at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-8f83e2439770.jpg) Diego Calva at a photo call for Kering Women in Motion at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Diego_Calva_at_the_2026_Cannes_Film_Festival-67051.jpg/1280px-Diego_Calva_at_the_2026_Cannes_Film_Festival-67051.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Diego Calva](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-ef42233ff964.jpg) Diego Calva — Image via TMDB
- ![Diego Calva](https://film.one/media/person/423/gallery-95de17fd87f6.jpg) Diego Calva — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Golden Globes — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (nominated), for *Babylon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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