Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#43158
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Andrew Fiscella 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.
Andrew Fiscella appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. The Funeral is the clearest case: a film rated 6.7 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 crime, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Connolly, Rowan Woods, Nimród Antal and others, Andrew Fiscella 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 Funeral (1996) as Murder Witness · Takers (2010) as Security Chief · Vacancy (2007) as Steven R
Career snapshot
Ranked #43158 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1996–2018
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.7
The Funeral
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
The Funeral
Most frequent director
Nimród Antal
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Nimród Antal
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
1990s
6.7 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Funeral — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film 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. The Funeral.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 5.74 films | 5.82 films |
| Action | — | 6.02 films | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.03 films | 5.73 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.03 films | 5.82 films |
| Horror | — | 5.73 films | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1996The Funeral
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Murder Witness. 6.7 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
2018Gotti
The current state of the argument, as Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso.
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 Murder Witness
Directed by Abel Ferrara
as Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso
Directed by Kevin Connolly
as Numbers Man
Directed by Rowan Woods
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Murder Witness
The Funeral (1996)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Murder Witness gives Andrew Fiscella a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso
Gotti (2018)
Performance score6.5
Gotti asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Security Chief
Takers (2010)
Performance score6.5
Takers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Security Chief is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Inmate
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Performance score6.5
A Nightmare on Elm Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inmate 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 Murder Witness
Start here. The Funeral is the clearest statement of what Andrew Fiscella does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 6.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Andrew 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.
Winged Creatures (2009)
Keeps the crime register of The Funeral but asks for a colder reading of it.
Takers (2010)
Keeps the crime register of Winged Creatures but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Same director as Takers, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Gotti (2018)
Keeps the thriller register of A Nightmare on Elm Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nimród Antal
Director
2 films together
Notably Vacancy
Abel Ferrara
Director
1 film together
Notably The Funeral
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably After the Sunset
John Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together
Notably Quarantine
Nelson McCormick
Director
1 film together
Notably Prom Night
Rowan Woods
Director
1 film together
Notably Winged Creatures
Kevin Connolly
Director
1 film together
Notably Gotti
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Nimród Antal
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
VacancyAbel Ferrara
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FuneralBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After the SunsetRowan Woods
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winged CreaturesJohn Erick Dowdle
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
QuarantineKevin Connolly
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GottiNelson McCormick
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Prom NightSix 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 Funeral
as Murder Witness
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Gotti
as Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso
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 Funeral
as Murder Witness
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Takers
as Security Chief
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Funeral
as Murder Witness
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. Andrew Fiscella 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 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 Funeral
as Murder Witness
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Takers
as Security Chief
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Gotti
as Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Inmate
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Takers
as Security Chief
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
After the Sunset
as Popcorn Victim
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
After the Sunset
as Popcorn Victim
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Takers
as Security Chief
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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