Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#20395
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Coati Mundi represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Coati is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Coati Mundi appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Coati. 25th Hour is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 adventure, drama, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Walter Salles, Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin and others, Coati Mundi 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.
25th Hour (2002) as Louis Volandes · We Own the Night (2007) as Coati Mundi · He Got Game (1998) as Clerk in Motel
Career snapshot
Ranked #20395 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1986–2012
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
25th Hour
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
25th Hour
Most frequent director
Spike Lee
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Spike Lee
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. We Own the Night, 25th Hour, Serving Sara — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Who's That Girl, Sid and Nancy.
Most productive era
1990s
4 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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.43 films | 7.02 films | 5.91 film |
| Action | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | — | 5.81 film | — |
| Crime | — | — | 7.02 films | — |
| Romance | 6.32 films | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986Sid and Nancy
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Desk Clerk.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
200225th Hour
7.2 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
2012On the Road
The current state of the argument, as Slim Gaillard.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Coati Mundi
Directed by Unknown
as Clerk in Motel
Directed by Spike Lee
as Desk Clerk
Directed by Alex Cox
as Slim Gaillard
Directed by Walter Salles
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
Louis Volandes
25th Hour (2002)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Louis Volandes gives Coati Mundi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Coati Mundi
We Own the Night (2007)
Performance score6.6
We Own the Night asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coati Mundi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Clerk in Motel
He Got Game (1998)
Performance score6.6
He Got Game asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Clerk in Motel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Desk Clerk
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Performance score6.6
Sid and Nancy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Desk Clerk 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 Louis Volandes
Start here. 25th Hour is the clearest statement of what Coati Mundi does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Coati 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.
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Keeps the drama register of 25th Hour but asks for a colder reading of it.
He Got Game (1998)
Keeps the drama register of Sid and Nancy but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Own the Night (2007)
Keeps the drama register of He Got Game but asks for a colder reading of it.
On the Road (2012)
Keeps the drama register of We Own the Night but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Spike Lee
Director
3 films together
Notably 25th Hour
Alex Cox
Director
1 film together
Notably Sid and Nancy
James Foley
Director
1 film together
Notably Who's That Girl
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably Species
Mark Christopher
Director
1 film together
Notably 54
Reginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Serving Sara
Walter Salles
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Road
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Spike Lee
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
25th HourAlex Cox
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sid and NancyRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SpeciesMark Christopher
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
54James Foley
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Who's That GirlWalter Salles
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the RoadReginald Hudlin
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Serving SaraSix 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
25th Hour
as Louis Volandes
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sid and Nancy
as Desk Clerk
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
25th Hour
as Louis Volandes
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
We Own the Night
as Coati Mundi
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
25th Hour
as Louis Volandes
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. Coati Mundi 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
26 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
7 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
25th Hour
as Louis Volandes
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
We Own the Night
as Coati Mundi
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
54
as DJ
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
We Own the Night
as Coati Mundi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
25th Hour
as Louis Volandes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Species
as Conga Player (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mo' Better Blues
as Roberto
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Who's That Girl
as Raoul
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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