Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#43036
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Clovis Cornillac 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.
Clovis Cornillac appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Clovis. Little Tickles is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alexandre Astier, Artus, Clovis Cornillac and others, Clovis Cornillac 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.
Little Tickles (2018) as Fabrice Le Nadant · A Very Long Engagement (2004) as Benoît Notre-Dame · A Little Something Extra (2024) as Lucien 'la Fraise' Mounier / Orpi
Career snapshot
Ranked #43036 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Little Tickles
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Little Tickles
Most frequent director
Alexandre Astier
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Alexandre Astier
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.5
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Little Tickles — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
7.4
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. A Very Long Engagement.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 7.31 film | 7.41 film | 6.33 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.41 film | 6.56 films |
| Romance | 7.31 film | — | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Benoît Notre-Dame.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Little Tickles
7.4 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
2026Mur mure
The current state of the argument.
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 Fabrice Le Nadant
Directed by Andréa Bescond
as Lucien 'la Fraise' Mounier / Orpi
Directed by Artus
as Benoît Notre-Dame
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
as Lucien Dupré
Directed by Clovis Cornillac
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
Fabrice Le Nadant
Little Tickles (2018)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Fabrice Le Nadant gives Clovis Cornillac a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mur mure
Mur mure (2026)
Performance score7.5
Mur mure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lucien 'la Fraise' Mounier / Orpi
A Little Something Extra (2024)
Performance score7.5
A Little Something Extra asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lucien 'la Fraise' Mounier / Orpi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Benoît Notre-Dame
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Performance score7.2
A Very Long Engagement asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Benoît Notre-Dame 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 Fabrice Le Nadant
Start here. Little Tickles is the clearest statement of what Clovis Cornillac does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Clovis 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.
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Keeps the drama register of Little Tickles but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Colors of Fire (2022)
Keeps the drama register of A Very Long Engagement but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Little Something Extra (2024)
A deliberate change of key after The Colors of Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mur mure (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of A Little Something Extra but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alexandre Astier
Director
2 films together
Notably Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably A Very Long Engagement
Andréa Bescond
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Tickles
Clovis Cornillac
Director
1 film together
Notably The Colors of Fire
Artus
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Something Extra
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alexandre Astier
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
Kaamelott: The First ChapterAndréa Bescond
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little TicklesJean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Very Long EngagementArtus
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little Something ExtraClovis Cornillac
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Colors of FireSix 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
A Very Long Engagement
as Benoît Notre-Dame
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Very Long Engagement
as Benoît Notre-Dame
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Very Long Engagement
as Benoît Notre-Dame
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
as Quarto
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Little Tickles
as Fabrice Le Nadant
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. Clovis Cornillac 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
7 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
Little Tickles
as Fabrice Le Nadant
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Little Tickles
as Fabrice Le Nadant
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nobody Has to Know
as Benoit
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
as Quarto
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Little Tickles
as Fabrice Le Nadant
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
How I Became a Superhero
as Gigaman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
as Quarto
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Colors of Fire
as Lucien Dupré
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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