Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3637
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Benjamin Ayres 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.
Benjamin Ayres appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Benjamin. Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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, tv movie, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lisa Soper, David Winning, Jerry Ciccoritti and others, Benjamin Ayres 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.
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind (2019) as Drew Godfrey · True Justice: Family Ties (2024) as District Attorney Quinn · Field Day (2023) as Dan Aldridge
Career snapshot
Ranked #3637 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
Most frequent director
David Winning
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Winning
Most common genre
TV Movie
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 29m
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
6.4
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind, Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered, A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 5.03 films |
| Action | 5.61 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 7.01 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.74 films |
| Crime | — | 7.33 films | 6.12 films |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film | 6.74 films |
| Horror | — | — | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Guard #1.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
7.9 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
2026True Justice: Eye For An Eye
The current state of the argument, as District Attorney Quinn.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Drew Godfrey
Directed by Unknown
as Dan Aldridge
Directed by David Winning
as District Attorney Quinn
Directed by Unknown
as Drew Godfrey
Directed by Terry Ingram
as Robert Costa
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
Drew Godfrey
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind (2019)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Drew Godfrey gives Benjamin Ayres a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dan Aldridge
Field Day (2023)
Performance score7.7
Field Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dan Aldridge is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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District Attorney Quinn
True Justice: Family Ties (2024)
Performance score7.6
True Justice: Family Ties asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. District Attorney Quinn is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Drew Godfrey
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man (2019)
Performance score7.5
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Drew Godfrey is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Drew Godfrey
Start here. Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind is the clearest statement of what Benjamin Ayres does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Benjamin 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.
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man (2019)
Keeps the mystery register of Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Bad Seed Returns (2022)
Keeps the tv movie register of Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Field Day (2023)
Keeps the tv movie register of The Bad Seed Returns but asks for a colder reading of it.
True Justice: Family Ties (2024)
Keeps the tv movie register of Field Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Winning
Director
3 films together
Notably Field Day
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Terry Ingram
Director
1 film together
Notably Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
Jerry Ciccoritti
Director
1 film together
Notably Lie Exposed
Lisa Soper
Director
1 film together
Notably True Justice: Eye For An Eye
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Winning
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Field DayTerry Ingram
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong ManTim Story
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver SurferLisa Soper
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True Justice: Eye For An EyeJerry Ciccoritti
Director
1 film together · 3.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lie ExposedSix 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
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Field Day
as Dan Aldridge
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Guard #1
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
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. Benjamin Ayres 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.
TV Movie Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in tv movie, 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
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
You, Me and the Christmas Trees
as Jack Connor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Drew Godfrey
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Guard #1
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
You, Me and the Christmas Trees
as Jack Connor
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered
as Drew Godfrey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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