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 JeanPaul Sartre with the participation of Tere Velázquez Carlos Bracho and Sergio Barrios Once settled in Mexico City he entered the Instituto Cinematográfico Teatral y RadioTelevisión of the Asociación Nacional de Actores ANDA directed by Andrés Soler In 1958 he participated in another festival with the ICTs 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 ANDAs retirement home There he had a fall that caused him to fracture his femur Complications following surgery caused a lethal myocardial infarction