Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2114
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Aldis Hodge represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Aldis is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Aldis Hodge appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Aldis. Hidden Figures is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, thriller, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Keir O'Donnell, Jeff Wamester, Jaume Collet-Serra and others, Aldis Hodge 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.
Hidden Figures (2016) as Levi Jackson · Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) as Raymond · Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024) as John Stewart / Power Ring (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2114 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
1995–2026
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Hidden Figures
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Hidden Figures
Most frequent director
Jeff Wamester
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Jeff Wamester
Most common genre
Thriller
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.6
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
1990s
7.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Die Hard: With a Vengeance — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.3
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. Die Hard: With a Vengeance.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 | — | 5.11 film | 6.84 films | 6.34 films |
| Action | 7.41 film | — | 5.72 films | 6.95 films |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | 6.11 film | 6.03 films | 6.15 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.93 films | 6.21 film | 6.82 films |
| Crime | — | 6.11 film | 6.01 film | 5.92 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.21 film | 6.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Raymond.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Hidden Figures
8.2 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
2026The Dutchman
The current state of the argument, as Warren.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Levi Jackson
Directed by Theodore Melfi
as James Lanier
Directed by Leigh Whannell
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice)
Directed by Jeff Wamester
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
Levi Jackson
Hidden Figures (2016)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Levi Jackson gives Aldis Hodge a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Black Adam: Saviour or Destroyer? (2022)
Performance score7.6
Black Adam: Saviour or Destroyer? asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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James Lanier
The Invisible Man (2020)
Performance score7.5
The Invisible Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. James Lanier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
Performance score7.4
Green Lantern: Beware My Power asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) 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 Levi Jackson
Start here. Hidden Figures is the clearest statement of what Aldis Hodge does — accessible, 127 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Aldis 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 Invisible Man (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Hidden Figures — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
One Night in Miami... (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Invisible Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Black Adam: Saviour or Destroyer? (2022)
A deliberate change of key after One Night in Miami... — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Black Adam: Saviour or Destroyer? — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Wamester
Director
4 films together
Notably Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
John McTiernan
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ladykillers
Paul Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably American Dreamz
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Happy Feet
Zal Batmanglij
Director
1 film together
Notably The East
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably Hidden Figures
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably What Men Want
Regina King
Director
1 film together
Notably One Night in Miami...
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Magic Camp
Leigh Whannell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invisible Man
Linda Mendoza
Director
1 film together
Notably A Night at the Academy Museum
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Adam
Keir O'Donnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Marmalade
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wamester
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part OneTheodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hidden FiguresJohn McTiernan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die Hard: With a VengeanceLeigh Whannell
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Invisible ManLinda Mendoza
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Night at the Academy MuseumRegina King
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Night in Miami...Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black AdamMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Magic CampKeir O'Donnell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MarmaladeZal Batmanglij
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The EastGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Happy FeetAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
What Men WantJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LadykillersEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack Reacher: Never Go BackPaul Weitz
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American DreamzSix 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
Hidden Figures
as Levi Jackson
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hidden Figures
as Levi Jackson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hidden Figures
as Levi Jackson
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Happy Feet
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hidden Figures
as Levi Jackson
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. Aldis Hodge 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
31 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Hidden Figures
as Levi Jackson
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Raymond
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hidden Figures
as Levi Jackson
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Birthday Cake
as Eagle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Raymond
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Adam
as Hawkman / Carter Hall
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Marmalade
as Otis
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Happy Feet
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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