Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1680
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andre Braugher represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 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 Braugher appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andre. Primal Fear is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, history, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Maria Schrader, Elaine Bogan, Andy Fisher and others, Andre Braugher 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.
Primal Fear (1996) as Goodman · Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2022) as Self · Spirit Untamed (2021) as Al Granger (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1680 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1989–2022
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Primal Fear
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Primal Fear
Most frequent director
Maria Schrader
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Maria Schrader
Most common genre
Drama
9 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
7.1
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
2020s
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. She Said, Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Spirit Untamed — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
7.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Glory.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.31 film | 7.22 films | 5.84 films | 6.01 film | 7.21 film |
| Action | — | 5.91 film | 5.82 films | 6.22 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.82 films | 5.83 films | 6.22 films | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.71 film | 6.02 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | — | 6.02 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film | 6.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1989Glory
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cpl. Thomas Searles.
Highest rated performance
1996Primal Fear
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2022Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. 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.
16 of 16 films
as Goodman
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
as Cpl. Thomas Searles
Directed by Edward Zwick
as Dean Baquet
Directed by Maria Schrader
as Al Granger (voice)
Directed by Elaine Bogan
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
Self
Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Andre Braugher a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Goodman
Primal Fear (1996)
Performance score7.4
Primal Fear asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Goodman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cpl. Thomas Searles
Glory (1989)
Performance score7.4
Glory asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cpl. Thomas Searles is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dean Baquet
She Said (2022)
Performance score7.3
She Said asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dean Baquet 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 Self
Start here. Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the clearest statement of what Andre Braugher does — accessible, 47 minutes, and rated 7.4 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.
Glory (1989)
A deliberate change of key after Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Primal Fear (1996)
Keeps the drama register of Glory but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spirit Untamed (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Primal Fear — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
She Said (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Spirit Untamed — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Glory
Rowdy Herrington
Director
1 film together
Notably Striking Distance
Gregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together
Notably Primal Fear
Brad Silberling
Director
1 film together
Notably City of Angels
Bruce Paltrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Duets
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Poseidon
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Rodrigo García
Director
1 film together
Notably Passengers
Phillip Noyce
Director
1 film together
Notably Salt
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Gambler
Andy Fisher
Director
1 film together
Notably Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Elaine Bogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Spirit Untamed
Maria Schrader
Director
1 film together
Notably She Said
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Gregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Primal FearElaine Bogan
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spirit UntamedEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GloryMaria Schrader
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
She SaidBrad Silberling
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
City of AngelsPhillip Noyce
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SaltAndy Fisher
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"Rodrigo García
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PassengersRupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GamblerWolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PoseidonRowdy Herrington
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Striking DistanceBruce Paltrow
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DuetsTim Story
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver SurferSix 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
Primal Fear
as Goodman
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
She Said
as Dean Baquet
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Primal Fear
as Goodman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Primal Fear
as Goodman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine
as Self
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 Braugher 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
33 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
9 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
Primal Fear
as Goodman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Primal Fear
as Goodman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
She Said
as Dean Baquet
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Striking Distance
as District Attorney
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spirit Untamed
as Al Granger (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Poseidon
as Captain Bradford
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Spirit Untamed
as Al Granger (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spirit Untamed
as Al Granger (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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