Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4876
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andrew Havill represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Andrew is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Andrew Havill appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. The Imitation Game is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, history, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Philipson, Roger Michell, David Michôd and others, Andrew Havill 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 Imitation Game (2014) as Teacher · De Gaulle: Liberté (2026) as General Dill · The King's Speech (2010) as Robert Wood
Career snapshot
Ranked #4876 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
The Imitation Game
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Imitation Game
Most frequent director
Roger Michell
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Roger Michell
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Nicholas Nickleby — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Wilde.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.91 film | 6.711 films | 7.04 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.31 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 8.21 film | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.22 films | 7.01 film |
| Crime | — | — | 5.91 film | 7.21 film |
| Romance | — | — | 5.71 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Wilde
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Algernon.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.2 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
The current state of the argument, as General Dill.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Teacher
Directed by Morten Tyldum
as Cochepaille
Directed by Tom Hooper
as General Reginald Dyer
Directed by Unknown
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
Teacher
The Imitation Game (2014)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Teacher gives Andrew Havill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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General Dill
De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)
Performance score7.6
De Gaulle: Liberté asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. General Dill is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Robert Wood
The King's Speech (2010)
Performance score7.5
The King's Speech asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Robert Wood is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cochepaille
Les Misérables (2012)
Performance score7.2
Les Misérables asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cochepaille 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 Teacher
Start here. The Imitation Game is the clearest statement of what Andrew Havill does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 8.2 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.
The King's Speech (2010)
Keeps the drama register of The Imitation Game but asks for a colder reading of it.
Les Misérables (2012)
Same director as The King's Speech, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Sardar Udham (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
De Gaulle: Liberté (2026)
Same director as Sardar Udham, 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.
Roger Michell
Director
3 films together
Notably The Duke
Tom Hooper
Director
2 films together
Notably The King's Speech
Douglas McGrath
Director
1 film together
Notably Nicholas Nickleby
William Monahan
Director
1 film together
Notably London Boulevard
Lilly Wachowski
Director
1 film together
Notably Cloud Atlas
Morten Tyldum
Director
1 film together
Notably The Imitation Game
Oliver Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably Dad's Army
Dan Friedkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Vermeer
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
David Michôd
Director
1 film together
Notably The King
Anthony Philipson
Director
1 film together
Notably Einstein and the Bomb
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roger Michell
Director
3 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The DukeTom Hooper
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The King's SpeechMorten Tyldum
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Imitation GameDavid Michôd
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The KingLilly Wachowski
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cloud AtlasDouglas McGrath
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nicholas NicklebyDan Friedkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last VermeerJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerAnthony Philipson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Einstein and the BombWilliam Monahan
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
London BoulevardOliver Parker
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dad's ArmySix 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 Imitation Game
as Teacher
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
De Gaulle: Liberté
as General Dill
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 Imitation Game
as Teacher
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as First Order Officer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Imitation Game
as Teacher
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 Havill 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
29 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
17 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 Imitation Game
as Teacher
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Imitation Game
as Teacher
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
De Gaulle: Liberté
as General Dill
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Censor
as George
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Imitation Game
as Teacher
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as First Order Officer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Duke
as Sir Philip Hendy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Imitation Game
as Teacher
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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