Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#30033
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ben Rosenfield works on quiet performance 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.
Ben Rosenfield appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ben. A Most Violent Year is the clearest case: a film rated 6.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, drama, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Hannah Marks, Annabelle Attanasio, Woody Allen and others, Ben Rosenfield 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.
A Most Violent Year (2014) as Sales Student Alex · Irrational Man (2015) as April's Friend · Mickey and the Bear (2019) as Aron Church
Career snapshot
Ranked #30033 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2014–2021
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
A Most Violent Year
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
A Most Violent Year
Most frequent director
Hannah Marks
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Hannah Marks
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.1
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mickey and the Bear, Irrational Man, Song One — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Mickey and the Bear, Irrational Man, Song One.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 6.34 films | 5.21 film |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 5.21 film |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — |
| Romance | — | 5.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Song One
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Henry Ellis.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
6.6 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
2021Mark, Mary + Some Other People
The current state of the argument, as Mark.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Sales Student Alex
Directed by J.C. Chandor
as April's Friend
Directed by Woody Allen
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
Sales Student Alex
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sales Student Alex gives Ben Rosenfield a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mark
Mark, Mary + Some Other People (2021)
Performance score6.5
Mark, Mary + Some Other People asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mark is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aron Church
Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Performance score6.5
Mickey and the Bear asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aron Church is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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April's Friend
Irrational Man (2015)
Performance score6.5
Irrational Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. April's Friend 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 Sales Student Alex
Start here. A Most Violent Year is the clearest statement of what Ben Rosenfield does — accessible, 125 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ben 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.
Song One (2014)
Keeps the drama register of A Most Violent Year but asks for a colder reading of it.
Irrational Man (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Song One but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Irrational Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mark, Mary + Some Other People (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Mickey and the Bear but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
J.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together
Notably A Most Violent Year
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Irrational Man
Annabelle Attanasio
Director
1 film together
Notably Mickey and the Bear
Hannah Marks
Director
1 film together
Notably Mark, Mary + Some Other People
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
J.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Most Violent YearWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Irrational ManAnnabelle Attanasio
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mickey and the BearHannah Marks
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mark, Mary + Some Other PeopleSix 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
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mark, Mary + Some Other People
as Mark
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Irrational Man
as April's Friend
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
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. Ben Rosenfield 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
5 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
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mark, Mary + Some Other People
as Mark
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mickey and the Bear
as Aron Church
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Most Violent Year
as Sales Student Alex
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mickey and the Bear
as Aron Church
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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