His parents were José de la Luz Hernández and Amadita Rodríguez. He has a brother, Héctor Hernández. He was left fatherless, and his mother took him to Mexico City in 1956. He studied accounting, although his vocation was acting. He married Edith Sánchez, with whom he became the father of Aarón and Edith. He debuted as a theater actor in the 1950s, in the play Las manos sucias, by Jean-Paul Sartre, with the participation of Tere Velázquez, Carlos Bracho and Sergio Barrios. Once settled in Mexico City, he entered the Instituto Cinematográfico, Teatral y Radio-Televisión, of the Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA), directed by Andrés Soler. In 1958, he participated in another festival, with the ICT's Moncell group, where he starred in El gesticulador, a play by Rodolfo Usigli. He made his film debut in 1965 with Viento negro, as a supporting actor. After participating in the play Moby Dick, he was called by Ernesto Alonso to work in television. He made his television debut in the soap opera La mentira (1965), with Julissa, Enrique Lizalde and Fanny Cano. He worked in the theatrical company of the Mexican Social Security Institute. Aarón Hernán served as Secretary of Internal and External Affairs and Treasury of the National Actors Association (ANDA) on several occasions and served as General Secretary from 1998 to 2002. In his last year of life, his children wanted to declare him legally incompetent to administer his assets, so he had to defend himself legally and moved to La Casa del Actor, ANDA's retirement home. There he had a fall that caused him to fracture his femur. Complications following surgery caused a lethal myocardial infarction.
Rattlesnake
(Miguel)
El lado oscuro de la noche
(Oscar)
Omen
(Felipe)
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
(Nicias)
Mi nombre es Sergio, soy alcohólico
(Javier)
Revoltoso
Emiliano Zapata
Difficult Days
(Lic. Paniagua)
Chin-Chin el Teporocho
My Best Gift
(Gustavo)
Las Armas
(Abuelo Gaytán)
File of Attempted Murder
(González del Río)
It's Not You, It's Me
(Papá María)
La vibora
Traición
Los camaroneros
Dulce espiritu
Preparatoria
(Teacher Horacio)
Mar brava
(Médico)
La leyenda de Rodrígo
Corrupción oficial
4 hembras y un macho menos
Resigned for Reasons of Health
(Pascual Tamayo Chávez)
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Manuel Saldivar, el texano
Aunt Isabel's Garden
La trinchera
Trampa para un cadáver
Santa
Una horca para el Texano
(Adam, abogado defensor)
Arrullo de Dios
Rocambole contra la secta del escorpión
Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
(Fernández (uncredited))
La risa de la ciudad
Los tigres del ring
El indomable
Planet of the Female Invaders
(Esposo secuestrado)
Drizzle
(Eduardo)
Ladrón de memorias
(Abelardo)
Black Wind
(Telegrafista)
The Man Who Returned From Death
Direct Trip to Hell
(Sacerdote)
Your Excellency
(Representanre de Bolognia (uncredited))
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
(Esteban)
The Last Moon
Apolinar
Longitud de Guerra
(Reyes Domínguez)
Si quiero
(Gynecologist)
Beyond Heritage
(Don Miguel)
Mariana Mariana
(Carlos' Father)
Reclusorio III
New World
(Fray Pedro Francisco de Cañas)
Broken Flag
(Don Luis Iriarte)
El secreto del texano
Coronation
(Carlos)
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
(Priest Mora)
Killer Women
(Angelito)
Labyrinth of Passion
(Lauro Sánchez)
Head over Heels
(Don Vicente Cáceres)
La antorcha encendida
(Father Julián de Ibarne)
Crystal Empire
(Bernal Estrada)
Rayito de luz
(Padre Constantino)
My Love, My Sin
(Joaquín Arcadio)
Marisol
(Don Alonso Garcés del Valle)
Paloma
(León Gustavo Romero)
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
(Patricio de Castro)
Hearts to the Limit
(Arthur Stone)
Salomé
Sortilegio
(Porfirio Betancourt)
Storm Over Paradise
(Padre Augusto)