Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#23350
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ansu Kabia 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.
Ansu Kabia appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ansu. Last Christmas is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 fantasy, family, music. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Marc Webb, Sam Taylor-Johnson, David Leitch and others, Ansu Kabia 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.
Last Christmas (2019) as Rufus · Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) as U.K. Newsreader #2 · Back to Black (2024) as Raye
Career snapshot
Ranked #23350 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2017–2025
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Last Christmas
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Last Christmas
Most frequent director
Marc Webb
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Marc Webb
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
6.2
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Last Christmas, Murder on the Orient Express — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Last Christmas, Murder on the Orient Express.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 7.02 films | — |
| Crime | 6.71 film | — |
| Romance | 7.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017Murder on the Orient Express
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Police Captain (Newsreel).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Last Christmas
7.2 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
2025Snow White
The current state of the argument, as Huntsman.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Rufus
Directed by Paul Feig
as U.K. Newsreader #2
Directed by David Leitch
as Raye
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
as Police Captain (Newsreel)
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
as Huntsman
Directed by Marc Webb
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
Rufus
Last Christmas (2019)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Rufus gives Ansu Kabia a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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U.K. Newsreader #2
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Performance score6.7
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. U.K. Newsreader #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Raye
Back to Black (2024)
Performance score6.6
Back to Black asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Raye is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Police Captain (Newsreel)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Performance score6.6
Murder on the Orient Express asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Police Captain (Newsreel) 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 Rufus
Start here. Last Christmas is the clearest statement of what Ansu Kabia does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ansu 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.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Last Christmas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Murder on the Orient Express — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Back to Black (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Snow White (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Back to Black — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Murder on the Orient Express
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Christmas
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Back to Black
Marc Webb
Director
1 film together
Notably Snow White
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last ChristmasDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawSam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Back to BlackKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Murder on the Orient ExpressMarc Webb
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snow WhiteSix 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
Last Christmas
as Rufus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Back to Black
as Raye
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Last Christmas
as Rufus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Murder on the Orient Express
as Police Captain (Newsreel)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Last Christmas
as Rufus
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. Ansu Kabia 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.
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
4 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
Murder on the Orient Express
as Police Captain (Newsreel)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Murder on the Orient Express
as Police Captain (Newsreel)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Back to Black
as Raye
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Murder on the Orient Express
as Police Captain (Newsreel)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as U.K. Newsreader #2
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
as U.K. Newsreader #2
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Last Christmas
as Rufus
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Back to Black
as Raye
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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