Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#24045
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Adam Fogerty represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Adam is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Adam Fogerty appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Adam. Snatch is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brian Helgeland, Matthew Vaughn, Guy Ritchie and others, Adam Fogerty helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Snatch (2000) as Gorgeous George · The Power of One (1992) as Andress Malan · Stardust (2007) as Pirate
Career snapshot
Ranked #24045 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1992–2025
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Snatch
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Snatch
Most frequent director
Mark Herman
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Mark Herman
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.7
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Stardust, Mean Machine, Snatch — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.2
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Little Voice, Brassed Off, The Power of One.
Most productive era
1990s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.03 films | 6.31 film | 6.01 film | 5.91 film |
| Action | — | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 7.12 films | 6.12 films | — |
| Crime | — | 7.91 film | 6.52 films | — |
| Romance | 7.01 film | 7.31 film | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1992The Power of One
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Andress Malan.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2000Snatch
7.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025Anemone
The current state of the argument, as Des.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
10 of 10 films
as Gorgeous George
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Andress Malan
Directed by John G. Avildsen
as Pirate
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as Pat Connolly
Directed by Brian Helgeland
as Miner
Directed by Mark Herman
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Gorgeous George
Snatch (2000)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gorgeous George gives Adam Fogerty a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Andress Malan
The Power of One (1992)
Performance score7.3
The Power of One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Andress Malan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pirate
Stardust (2007)
Performance score7.2
Stardust asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pirate is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pat Connolly
Legend (2015)
Performance score7.0
Legend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pat Connolly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Gorgeous George
Start here. Snatch is the clearest statement of what Adam Fogerty does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Adam at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Power of One (1992)
A deliberate change of key after Snatch — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Brassed Off (1996)
Keeps the drama register of The Power of One but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stardust (2007)
Keeps the romance register of Brassed Off but asks for a colder reading of it.
Legend (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Stardust — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mark Herman
Director
2 films together
Notably Brassed Off
John G. Avildsen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Power of One
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Snatch
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Stardust
Brian Helgeland
Director
1 film together
Notably Legend
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mark Herman
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Brassed OffGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SnatchJohn G. Avildsen
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Power of OneMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StardustBrian Helgeland
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LegendSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Snatch
as Gorgeous George
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stardust
as Pirate
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Snatch
as Gorgeous George
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Power of One
as Andress Malan
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Snatch
as Gorgeous George
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Adam Fogerty has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
33 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Snatch
as Gorgeous George
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Legend
as Pat Connolly
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stardust
as Pirate
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Legend
as Pat Connolly
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Snatch
as Gorgeous George
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Plastic
as Spencer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Little Voice
as Bouncer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Snatch
as Gorgeous George
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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