Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4316
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alistair Petrie works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alistair Petrie appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alistair. Rush is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sam Yates, Mark Greenstreet, Julian Jarrold and others, Alistair Petrie 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.
Rush (2013) as Stirling Moss · Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as General Draven · Cloud Atlas (2012) as Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman
Career snapshot
Ranked #4316 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2008–2024
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Rush
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Rush
Most frequent director
Sam Yates
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Sam Yates
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
2h 0m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.3
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
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Duchess, The Bank Job — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Duchess, The Bank Job.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.92 films | 6.45 films | 5.73 films |
| Action | — | 6.93 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 5.52 films | 6.13 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Crime | 6.91 film | — | — |
| Romance | 6.91 film | 6.22 films | — |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Duchess
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Heaton.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Rush
7.7 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
2024Magpie
The current state of the argument, as Richard.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Stirling Moss
Directed by Ron Howard
as General Draven
Directed by Gareth Edwards
as Seamus Laurent
Directed by Unknown
as Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman
Directed by Lilly Wachowski
as Heaton
Directed by Saul Dibb
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
Stirling Moss
Rush (2013)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stirling Moss gives Alistair Petrie a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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General Draven
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Performance score7.3
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. General Draven is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Seamus Laurent
The Cursed (2021)
Performance score7.0
The Cursed asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Seamus Laurent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Performance score6.8
Cloud Atlas asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman 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 Stirling Moss
Start here. Rush is the clearest statement of what Alistair Petrie does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alistair 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 Duchess (2008)
Keeps the drama register of Rush but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Keeps the drama register of The Duchess but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Keeps the science fiction register of Cloud Atlas but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Cursed (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bank Job
Saul Dibb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Duchess
Lilly Wachowski
Director
1 film together
Notably Cloud Atlas
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Rush
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Victor Frankenstein
Alan Rickman
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Chaos
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Neil Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Hellboy
Julian Jarrold
Director
1 film together
Notably Sulphur & White
Mark Greenstreet
Director
1 film together
Notably Silent Hours
Sam Yates
Director
1 film together
Notably Magpie
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RushGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryLilly Wachowski
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cloud AtlasSaul Dibb
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DuchessRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bank JobSam Yates
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MagpieAlan Rickman
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little ChaosPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Victor FrankensteinNeil Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HellboyMark Greenstreet
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silent HoursJulian Jarrold
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sulphur & WhiteSix 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
Rush
as Stirling Moss
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Duchess
as Heaton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rush
as Stirling Moss
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cloud Atlas
as Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rush
as Stirling Moss
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. Alistair Petrie 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.
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
10 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
Rush
as Stirling Moss
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rush
as Stirling Moss
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Little Chaos
as De Ville
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Silent Hours
as Lieutenant Charles 'Chuck' Carter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as General Draven
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hellboy
as Lord Adam Glaren
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Duchess
as Heaton
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Victor Frankenstein
as Chief Inspector
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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