Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#21947
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
André 3000 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.
André 3000 appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without André. Four Brothers is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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 music, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Noah Baumbach, John Ridley, Stuart Townsend and others, André 3000 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.
Four Brothers (2005) as Jeremiah Mercer · Revolver (2005) as Avi · Battle in Seattle (2007) as Django
Career snapshot
Ranked #21947 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2003–2025
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Four Brothers
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Four Brothers
Most frequent director
Noah Baumbach
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Noah Baumbach
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 3m
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
6.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Semi-Pro, Battle in Seattle, Charlotte's Web — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.0
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.0
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. Semi-Pro, Battle in Seattle, Charlotte's Web.
Most productive era
2000s
7 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 | 6.32 films | 5.72 films | 5.72 films |
| Action | 6.13 films | — | — |
| Thriller | 5.82 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 5.64 films | — | 5.72 films |
| Crime | 6.23 films | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Silk Brown.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2005Four Brothers
6.8 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
20252025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Jeremiah Mercer
Directed by John Singleton
as Avi
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Elliot Lasher
Directed by Noah Baumbach
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
Jeremiah Mercer
Four Brothers (2005)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jeremiah Mercer gives André 3000 a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Avi
Revolver (2005)
Performance score6.6
Revolver asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Avi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2025)
Performance score6.5
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 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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Eric
Showing Up (2023)
Performance score6.5
Showing Up asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eric 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 Jeremiah Mercer
Start here. Four Brothers is the clearest statement of what André 3000 does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet André 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.
Revolver (2005)
Keeps the crime register of Four Brothers but asks for a colder reading of it.
White Noise (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Revolver but asks for a colder reading of it.
Showing Up (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of White Noise but asks for a colder reading of it.
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2025)
Same director as Showing Up, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ron Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Hollywood Homicide
John Singleton
Director
1 film together
Notably Four Brothers
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolver
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Be Cool
Stuart Townsend
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle in Seattle
John Ridley
Director
1 film together
Notably Jimi: All Is by My Side
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably White Noise
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John Singleton
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Four BrothersGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RevolverStuart Townsend
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle in SeattleNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White NoiseJohn Ridley
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jimi: All Is by My SideF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Be CoolRon Shelton
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hollywood HomicideSix 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
Four Brothers
as Jeremiah Mercer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Jimi: All Is by My Side
as Jimi Hendrix
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Four Brothers
as Jeremiah Mercer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Four Brothers
as Jeremiah Mercer
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. André 3000 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
22 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Revolver
as Avi
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Four Brothers
as Jeremiah Mercer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Jimi: All Is by My Side
as Jimi Hendrix
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Revolver
as Avi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Four Brothers
as Jeremiah Mercer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hollywood Homicide
as Silk Brown
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Jimi: All Is by My Side
as Jimi Hendrix
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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