Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6175
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Charlie Creed-Miles represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Charlie is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Charlie Creed-Miles appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Charlie. The Fifth Element is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 crime, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jim O'Hanlon, Dexter Fletcher, Clint Eastwood and others, Charlie Creed-Miles 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.
The Fifth Element (1997) as David · LifeHack (2026) as Don Heard · Nil by Mouth (1997) as Billy
Career snapshot
Ranked #6175 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
The Fifth Element
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Fifth Element
Most frequent director
Jim O'Hanlon
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jim O'Hanlon
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.7
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
2020s
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. LifeHack — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Fifth Element, Nil by Mouth.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.62 films | 6.33 films | — |
| Action | 7.81 film | 6.62 films | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.81 film | — | 7.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as David. 7.8 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
2026LifeHack
The current state of the argument, as Don Heard.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
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8 of 8 films
as David
Directed by Luc Besson
as DS Terry Hicock
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
David
The Fifth Element (1997)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. David gives Charlie Creed-Miles a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Don Heard
LifeHack (2026)
Performance score7.5
LifeHack asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Don Heard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bill
Wild Bill (2011)
Performance score7.4
Wild Bill asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bill is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Billy
Nil by Mouth (1997)
Performance score7.3
Nil by Mouth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Billy 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 David
Start here. The Fifth Element is the clearest statement of what Charlie Creed-Miles does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Charlie 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.
Nil by Mouth (1997)
A deliberate change of key after The Fifth Element — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Harry Brown (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Nil by Mouth but asks for a colder reading of it.
Wild Bill (2011)
Keeps the drama register of Harry Brown but asks for a colder reading of it.
LifeHack (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Wild Bill — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gary Oldman
Director
1 film together
Notably Nil by Mouth
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fifth Element
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably King Arthur
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Hereafter
Dexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Wild Bill
Jim O'Hanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably 100 Streets
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fifth ElementGary Oldman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nil by MouthDexter Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wild BillAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King ArthurClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HereafterJim O'Hanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
100 StreetsSix 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 Fifth Element
as David
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hereafter
as Photographer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Fifth Element
as David
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Fifth Element
as David
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Fifth Element
as David
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. Charlie Creed-Miles 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
29 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
6 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
The Fifth Element
as David
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
LifeHack
as Don Heard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hereafter
as Photographer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
LifeHack
as Don Heard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Fifth Element
as David
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Fifth Element
as David
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
King Arthur
as Ganis
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Fifth Element
as David
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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