Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#204
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Andrew Howard 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 Howard appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Andrew. The Odyssey is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, war, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christopher Nolan, Gavin O'Connor, Travon Free and others, Andrew Howard 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 Odyssey (2026) as Polites · Tenet (2020) as Driver · Limitless (2011) as Gennady
Career snapshot
Ranked #204 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Odyssey
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Odyssey
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Thriller
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Truly Naked, Man of War, The Odyssey — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Cassandra's Dream, Revolver.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.32 films | — | 7.02 films |
| Action | 6.21 film | 6.33 films | 7.33 films |
| Thriller | 6.23 films | 6.54 films | 6.84 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.22 films | — |
| Crime | 6.32 films | — | 7.11 film |
| Horror | 6.01 film | 5.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Below
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hoag.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The Odyssey
8.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Polites.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Polites
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Gennady
Directed by Neil Burger
as Driver
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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
Polites
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Polites gives Andrew Howard a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dylan
Truly Naked (2026)
Performance score7.6
Truly Naked asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dylan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Officer Merk
Two Distant Strangers (2020)
Performance score7.4
Two Distant Strangers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Merk is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gennady
Limitless (2011)
Performance score7.3
Limitless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gennady 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 Polites
Start here. The Odyssey is the clearest statement of what Andrew Howard does — accessible, 173 minutes, and rated 8.0 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.
Limitless (2011)
A deliberate change of key after The Odyssey — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Two Distant Strangers (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Limitless — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tenet (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Two Distant Strangers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Truly Naked (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Tenet — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together
Notably Truth or Dare
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably The Odyssey
David Twohy
Director
1 film together
Notably Below
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Revolver
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Cassandra's Dream
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hangover Part II
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably Limitless
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna
Travon Free
Director
1 film together
Notably Two Distant Strangers
Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Accountant²
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The OdysseyJeff Wadlow
Director
2 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Truth or DareNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LimitlessGavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Accountant²Travon Free
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Two Distant StrangersLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnnaTodd Phillips
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 Hangover Part IIGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RevolverWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cassandra's DreamMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: Revenge of the FallenDavid Twohy
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BelowSix 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 Odyssey
as Polites
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Two Distant Strangers
as Officer Merk
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 Odyssey
as Polites
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Odyssey
as Polites
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Odyssey
as Polites
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 Howard 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Odyssey
as Polites
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Limitless
as Gennady
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Two Distant Strangers
as Officer Merk
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Limitless
as Gennady
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Odyssey
as Polites
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Polites
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Cassandra's Dream
as Jerry
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tenet
as Driver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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