Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18448
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Caspar Phillipson 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.
Caspar Phillipson appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Caspar. Deroute 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 action, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bryan Fuller, Pablo Larraín, Ole Bornedal and others, Caspar Phillipson 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.
Deroute (2021) as Svend · The Shadow in My Eye (2021) as Bateson · Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) as The European
Career snapshot
Ranked #18448 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2008–2025
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Deroute
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Deroute
Most frequent director
Pablo Larraín
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Pablo Larraín
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.3
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Jackie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. Flame & Citron.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 6.81 film | 6.51 film | 5.58 films |
| Action | — | 7.51 film | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.13 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Crime | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008Flame & Citron
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Schalburgsoldat med briller.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Deroute
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.
Most recent film
2025Dust Bunny
The current state of the argument, as Father.
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.
15 of 15 films
as The European
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
as Schalburgsoldat med briller
Directed by Ole Christian Madsen
as Father
Directed by Bryan Fuller
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
Svend
Deroute (2021)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Svend gives Caspar Phillipson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bateson
The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
Performance score7.6
The Shadow in My Eye asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bateson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The European
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Performance score7.3
Mission: Impossible - Fallout asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The European is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Schalburgsoldat med briller
Flame & Citron (2008)
Performance score6.7
Flame & Citron asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Schalburgsoldat med briller 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 Svend
Start here. Deroute is the clearest statement of what Caspar Phillipson does — accessible, 24 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Caspar 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.
Flame & Citron (2008)
A deliberate change of key after Deroute — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Flame & Citron — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Shadow in My Eye (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Mission: Impossible - Fallout — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dust Bunny (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Shadow in My Eye — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ole Bornedal
Director
2 films together
Notably The Shadow in My Eye
Pablo Larraín
Director
2 films together
Notably Maria
Ole Christian Madsen
Director
1 film together
Notably Flame & Citron
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Nicolaj Kopernikus
Director
1 film together
Notably The Stonophone
Andrew Dominik
Director
1 film together
Notably Blonde
Milad Avaz
Director
1 film together
Notably Better Times
Per Fly
Director
1 film together
Notably Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace
Bryan Fuller
Director
1 film together
Notably Dust Bunny
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ole Bornedal
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Shadow in My EyePablo Larraín
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
MariaChristopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - FalloutOle Christian Madsen
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flame & CitronBryan Fuller
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dust BunnyPer Fly
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hammarskjöld: Fight for PeaceMilad Avaz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Better TimesAndrew Dominik
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlondeNicolaj Kopernikus
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The StonophoneSix 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 Shadow in My Eye
as Bateson
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Maria
as John. F Kennedy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Deroute
as Svend
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as The European
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Deroute
as Svend
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. Caspar Phillipson 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
10 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
Deroute
as Svend
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dust Bunny
as Father
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Maria
as John. F Kennedy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
as Trondheim
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as The European
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as The European
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace
as John F. Kennedy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
as The European
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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