Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8744
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bashir Salahuddin 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.
Bashir Salahuddin appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bashir. Top Gun: Maverick is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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 mystery, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Feig, Matt Danner, Seth Gordon and others, Bashir Salahuddin 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.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman · Marriage Story (2019) as Director · A Simple Favor (2018) as Detective Summervile
Career snapshot
Ranked #8744 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2018–2025
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Top Gun: Maverick
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Top Gun: Maverick
Most frequent director
Paul Feig
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Paul Feig
Most common genre
Comedy
6 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
6.9
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
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Marriage Story, A Simple Favor, Gringo — 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
6.8
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. Marriage Story, A Simple Favor, Gringo.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 7.81 film | 6.84 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | 7.42 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | 6.42 films | 6.44 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018A Simple Favor
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Detective Summervile.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.3 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
2025Back in Action
The current state of the argument, as Coach Chris.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Director
Directed by Noah Baumbach
as Boris Fillmore
Directed by Unknown
as Detective Summervile
Directed by Paul Feig
as Mr. Warren (voice)
Directed by Matt Danner
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
Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman gives Bashir Salahuddin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Director
Marriage Story (2019)
Performance score7.6
Marriage Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Director is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boris Fillmore
Miller's Girl (2024)
Performance score6.9
Miller's Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boris Fillmore is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Detective Summervile
A Simple Favor (2018)
Performance score6.9
A Simple Favor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Detective Summervile 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 Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
Start here. Top Gun: Maverick is the clearest statement of what Bashir Salahuddin does — accessible, 131 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bashir 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.
A Simple Favor (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Top Gun: Maverick — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Marriage Story (2019)
A deliberate change of key after A Simple Favor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Miller's Girl (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Marriage Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Miller's Girl — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paul Feig
Director
2 films together
Notably A Simple Favor
Nash Edgerton
Director
1 film together
Notably Gringo
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Marriage Story
Kevin Willmott
Director
1 film together
Notably The 24th
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Cyrano
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Top Gun: Maverick
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Switch
Seth Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Back in Action
Matt Danner
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul Feig
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
A Simple FavorJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Top Gun: MaverickNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marriage StoryMatt Danner
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last StrawSeth Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Back in ActionMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family SwitchJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CyranoKevin Willmott
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The 24thNash Edgerton
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GringoSix 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
Top Gun: Maverick
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Miller's Girl
as Boris Fillmore
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Top Gun: Maverick
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Marriage Story
as Director
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Top Gun: Maverick
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
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. Bashir Salahuddin 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Top Gun: Maverick
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Top Gun: Maverick
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Miller's Girl
as Boris Fillmore
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Simple Favor
as Detective Summervile
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Top Gun: Maverick
as Wo-1. Bernie 'Hondo' Coleman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Back in Action
as Coach Chris
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Miller's Girl
as Boris Fillmore
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The 24th
as Big Joe
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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