Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10592
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Allan Havey represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Allan is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Allan Havey appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Allan. Rounders is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. 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 Andrew Dominik, Jay Roach, Jeff Chan and others, Allan Havey 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.
Rounders (1998) as Guberman · Bombshell (2019) as Victorious Player · Plus One (2019) as Hannon
Career snapshot
Ranked #10592 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1990–2022
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Rounders
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Rounders
Most frequent director
Andrew Dominik
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Andrew Dominik
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
6.6
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
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Rounders, Internal Affairs — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
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. Rounders, Internal Affairs.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 6.72 films | 6.21 film | 6.81 film | 5.91 film |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.11 film | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | 6.32 films | — |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 6.22 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1990Internal Affairs
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Judson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1998Rounders
7.0 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
2022Blonde
The current state of the argument, as Dr. Greenson.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Protestant Clergyman
Directed by Joel Coen
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
Guberman
Rounders (1998)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Guberman gives Allan Havey a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Victorious Player
Bombshell (2019)
Performance score6.7
Bombshell asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Victorious Player is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hannon
Plus One (2019)
Performance score6.7
Plus One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hannon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Greenson
Blonde (2022)
Performance score6.5
Blonde asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Greenson 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 Guberman
Start here. Rounders is the clearest statement of what Allan Havey does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Allan 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.
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Rounders — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Bombshell (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Hail, Caesar! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Plus One (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Bombshell — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Blonde (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Plus One — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together
Notably Internal Affairs
John Dahl
Director
1 film together
Notably Rounders
Brian Koppelman
Director
1 film together
Notably Knockaround Guys
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Hancock
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hail, Caesar!
Jeff Chan
Director
1 film together
Notably Plus One
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Andrew Dominik
Director
1 film together
Notably Blonde
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Dahl
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoundersJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BombshellJeff Chan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Plus OnePeter Berg
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HancockMike Figgis
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Internal AffairsBrian Koppelman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knockaround GuysAndrew Dominik
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlondeJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hail, Caesar!Six 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
Rounders
as Guberman
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Plus One
as Hannon
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rounders
as Guberman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bombshell
as Victorious Player
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rounders
as Guberman
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. Allan Havey 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
32 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
5 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
Rounders
as Guberman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rounders
as Guberman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Plus One
as Hannon
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hail, Caesar!
as Protestant Clergyman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hancock
as Convict
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hancock
as Convict
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Informant!
as FBI Supervisor Dean Paisley
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hancock
as Convict
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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