Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13502
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Andre B. Blake represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Andre is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andre B. Blake appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andre. The Silence of the Lambs is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Desiree Akhavan, Jonathan Demme, Jon Avnet and others, Andre B. Blake 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.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Tall Memphis Cop · Philadelphia (1993) as Young Man in Pharmacy · Stepmom (1998) as Cooper
Career snapshot
Ranked #13502 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1991–2018
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
The Silence of the Lambs
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Silence of the Lambs
Most frequent director
Jonathan Demme
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jonathan Demme
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 54m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8
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
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Stepmom, Philadelphia, Boomerang — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.2
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. Stepmom, Philadelphia, Boomerang.
Most productive era
1990s
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.83 films | 6.31 film | 6.91 film |
| Action | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Thriller | 8.51 film | 5.91 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 5.31 film | — |
| Crime | 8.51 film | 5.91 film | — |
| Romance | 6.52 films | 5.82 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tall Memphis Cop. 8.5 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
2018The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The current state of the argument, as Mr. Jacobs.
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 Tall Memphis Cop
Directed by Jonathan Demme
as Young Man in Pharmacy
Directed by Jonathan Demme
as Cooper
Directed by Chris Columbus
as Crane Disaster Radio Policeman
Directed by Sam Raimi
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
Tall Memphis Cop
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tall Memphis Cop gives Andre B. Blake a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Man in Pharmacy
Philadelphia (1993)
Performance score7.5
Philadelphia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Man in Pharmacy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cooper
Stepmom (1998)
Performance score7.1
Stepmom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cooper is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Jacobs
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Performance score6.8
The Miseducation of Cameron Post asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Jacobs 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 Tall Memphis Cop
Start here. The Silence of the Lambs is the clearest statement of what Andre B. Blake does — accessible, 119 minutes, and rated 8.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andre 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.
Philadelphia (1993)
Same director as The Silence of the Lambs, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Stepmom (1998)
Keeps the drama register of Philadelphia but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Stepmom — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Spider-Man 3 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jonathan Demme
Director
3 films together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Boomerang
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Stepmom
Chris Rock
Director
1 film together
Notably I Think I Love My Wife
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man 3
Jon Avnet
Director
1 film together
Notably Righteous Kill
Desiree Akhavan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jonathan Demme
Director
3 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Silence of the LambsChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StepmomDesiree Akhavan
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 Miseducation of Cameron PostSam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man 3Jon Avnet
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Righteous KillReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BoomerangChris Rock
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Think I Love My WifeSix 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
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stepmom
as Cooper
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
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. Andre B. Blake 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
27 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
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Rachel Getting Married
as Inspired Stylist
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Righteous Kill
as Officer Jones
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Silence of the Lambs
as Tall Memphis Cop
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man 3
as Crane Disaster Radio Policeman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Stepmom
as Cooper
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man 3
as Crane Disaster Radio Policeman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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