Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11678
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Andreas Apergis 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.
Andreas Apergis appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andreas. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Roland Emmerich, Alan Ritchson, Eli Roth and others, Andreas Apergis 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.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Col. Sanders · mother! (2017) as Slave Driver · Pawn Sacrifice (2015) as Uncle Paul
Career snapshot
Ranked #11678 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2001–2025
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Most frequent director
Roland Emmerich
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Roland Emmerich
Most common genre
Action
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
6.5
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
2010s
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Death Wish, mother!, Pawn Sacrifice — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Heist.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.31 film | 6.64 films | 6.41 film |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.74 films | 6.12 films |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 6.54 films | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Crime | 6.31 film | 6.21 film | — |
| Horror | — | 7.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Heist
Where our catalogue meets this career, as State Trooper.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.5 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
2025Out Standing
The current state of the argument, as Major Pierre Duval.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Col. Sanders
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Slave Driver
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
as Uncle Paul
Directed by Edward Zwick
as Major Pierre Duval
Directed by Unknown
as Lt. Colonel Reed
Directed by Roland Emmerich
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
Col. Sanders
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Col. Sanders gives Andreas Apergis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Slave Driver
mother! (2017)
Performance score6.9
mother! asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Slave Driver is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Uncle Paul
Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
Performance score6.6
Pawn Sacrifice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Uncle Paul is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Major Pierre Duval
Out Standing (2025)
Performance score6.5
Out Standing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Major Pierre Duval 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 Col. Sanders
Start here. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest statement of what Andreas Apergis does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andreas 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.
Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
A deliberate change of key after X-Men: Days of Future Past — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
mother! (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Pawn Sacrifice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Moonfall (2022)
A deliberate change of key after mother! — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Out Standing (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Moonfall — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together
Notably White House Down
David Mamet
Director
1 film together
Notably Heist
David Twohy
Director
1 film together
Notably Riddick
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Pawn Sacrifice
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably mother!
Eli Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Wish
Alan Ritchson
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Web: Cicada 3301
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
White House DownBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
mother!Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pawn SacrificeDavid Twohy
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RiddickDavid Mamet
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeistEli Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death WishAlan Ritchson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark Web: Cicada 3301Six 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
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Col. Sanders
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Out Standing
as Major Pierre Duval
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Col. Sanders
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
mother!
as Slave Driver
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Col. Sanders
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. Andreas Apergis 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
24 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in action, 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
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Col. Sanders
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
mother!
as Slave Driver
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Out Standing
as Major Pierre Duval
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Heist
as State Trooper
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Col. Sanders
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Col. Sanders
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Heist
as State Trooper
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Riddick
as Krone
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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