Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7555
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Chris Wylde 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.
Chris Wylde appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chris. When We First Met 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 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with McG, Jonathan Liebesman, Clay Weiner and others, Chris Wylde 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.
When We First Met (2018) as Mr. Costigan · Space Cowboys (2000) as Jason · The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) as Juan
Career snapshot
Ranked #7555 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2000–2022
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.6
When We First Met
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
When We First Met
Most frequent director
McG
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With McG
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2020s
6.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Tall Girl 2, The Babysitter: Killer Queen — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.0
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. The Ten, Evolution, Joe Dirt.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.31 film | — | 5.71 film |
| Action | 6.32 films | 5.91 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | — | — |
| Comedy | 5.74 films | 5.84 films | 6.02 films |
| Romance | 6.31 film | 6.61 film | 5.71 film |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Space Cowboys
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jason.
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
2022Tall Girl 2
The current state of the argument, as Corey Dunkleman.
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 Mr. Costigan
Directed by Unknown
as Corey Dunkleman
Directed by Unknown
as Melanie's Annoying Dad
Directed by McG
as Reporter
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman
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
Mr. Costigan
When We First Met (2018)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mr. Costigan gives Chris Wylde a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Corey Dunkleman
Tall Girl 2 (2022)
Performance score6.5
Tall Girl 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Corey Dunkleman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Juan
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
Performance score6.5
The Babysitter: Killer Queen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Juan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Melanie's Annoying Dad
The Babysitter (2017)
Performance score6.5
The Babysitter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Melanie's Annoying Dad 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 Mr. Costigan
Start here. When We First Met is the clearest statement of what Chris Wylde does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 6.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chris 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.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of When We First Met but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Babysitter (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
Same director as The Babysitter, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Tall Girl 2 (2022)
Keeps the comedy register of The Babysitter: Killer Queen but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
McG
Director
2 films together
Notably The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Cowboys
Dennie Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Joe Dirt
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Evolution
David Wain
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ten
Clay Weiner
Director
1 film together
Notably FRED: The Movie
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
McG
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Babysitter: Killer QueenClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space CowboysIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EvolutionJonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesDennie Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joe DirtDavid Wain
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The TenClay Weiner
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FRED: The MovieSix 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
Space Cowboys
as Jason
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Coyote Ugly
as College Guy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
When We First Met
as Mr. Costigan
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Space Cowboys
as Jason
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
When We First Met
as Mr. Costigan
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. Chris Wylde 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
22 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
10 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
When We First Met
as Mr. Costigan
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Space Cowboys
as Jason
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Coyote Ugly
as College Guy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
When We First Met
as Mr. Costigan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Space Cowboys
as Jason
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Space Cowboys
as Jason
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Coyote Ugly
as College Guy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Joe Dirt
as Railroad Boy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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