Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26930
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Chuck Liddell 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.
Chuck Liddell appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Chuck. Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with William Butler, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jesse Quinones and others, Chuck Liddell 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.
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute (2024) as Self · Chuck & Tito (2019) as Self · Cagefighter: Worlds Collide (2020) as Marcus
Career snapshot
Ranked #26930 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
Most frequent director
William Butler
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With William Butler
Most common genre
Action
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
2000s
6.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Drillbit Taylor, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, Cradle 2 the Grave — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.0
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.1
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. Drillbit Taylor, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, Cradle 2 the Grave.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.22 films | — | — |
| Action | 6.22 films | 5.54 films | 3.04 films |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 5.12 films | 0.02 films |
| Comedy | 5.81 film | — | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 6.22 films | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cage Fighter (uncredited).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Jagger.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Jagger
Directed by William Butler
Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
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
Self
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute (2024)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Chuck Liddell a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Chuck & Tito (2019)
Performance score7.6
Chuck & Tito asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Marcus
Cagefighter: Worlds Collide (2020)
Performance score6.6
Cagefighter: Worlds Collide asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marcus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jagger
Special Op: Rent-a-Cop (2026)
Performance score6.5
Special Op: Rent-a-Cop asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jagger 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 Self
Start here. Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute is the clearest statement of what Chuck Liddell does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Chuck 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.
Chuck & Tito (2019)
Same director as Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Cagefighter: Worlds Collide (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Chuck & Tito — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Dying for Living (2025)
Keeps the action register of Cagefighter: Worlds Collide but asks for a colder reading of it.
Special Op: Rent-a-Cop (2026)
Keeps the action register of Dying for Living but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together
Notably Cradle 2 the Grave
John Herzfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Drillbit Taylor
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass 2
John Lyde
Director
1 film together
Notably Riot
Nick Lyon
Director
1 film together
Notably D-Day
Jesse Quinones
Director
1 film together
Notably Cagefighter: Worlds Collide
Patrick Kilpatrick
Director
1 film together
Notably Dying for Living
William Butler
Director
1 film together
Notably Special Op: Rent-a-Cop
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jesse Quinones
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cagefighter: Worlds CollideJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-Ass 2John Herzfeld
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death and Life of Bobby ZAndrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cradle 2 the GraveSteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Drillbit TaylorJohn Lyde
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RiotNick Lyon
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
D-DayWilliam Butler
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Special Op: Rent-a-CopPatrick Kilpatrick
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dying for LivingSix 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
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Drillbit Taylor
as Himself
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
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. Chuck Liddell 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
23 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in action, 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
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
as Maddog
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
as Maddog
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Celebrity Boxing The 16th Minute
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kick-Ass 2
as Chuck Liddell
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Cradle 2 the Grave
as Cage Fighter (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Cagefighter: Worlds Collide
as Marcus
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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