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.
as Don Miguel
as Gustavo
as Abuelo Gaytán
as Don Vicente Cáceres(187 eps)
as Abelardo
as Oscar
as Papá María
as González del Río
as Porfirio Betancourt(90 eps)
as Angelito(1 ep)
as Padre Augusto(185 eps)
as Arthur Stone(145 eps)
as Joaquín Arcadio(95 eps)
as Don Arturo(150 eps)
as Padre Constantino(20 eps)
as Lauro Sánchez(80 eps)
as Father Julián de Ibarne(140 eps)
as Don Alonso Garcés del Valle(145 eps)
as Bernal Estrada(120 eps)
as Priest Mora
as Sacerdote
as Lic. Paniagua
as Carlos' Father
as Matías(125 eps)
as Médico
as Teacher Horacio
as Teodoro Romo-Larrea(195 eps)
as Javier
as Julio Segovia Linares-Montero(180 eps)
as Don Luis Iriarte
as Fray Pedro Francisco de Cañas
as Eduardo
as Miguel
as Reyes Domínguez
as Pascual Tamayo Chávez
as Carlos
as Carlos(280 eps)
as León Gustavo Romero(220 eps)
as Felipe
as Dr. Clarke(190 eps)
as Patricio de Castro(1 ep)
as Raúl Valdés
as Adam, abogado defensor
as Fernández (uncredited)
as Representanre de Bolognia (uncredited)
as Gynecologist
as Esposo secuestrado
as Telegrafista
as Esteban