Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14888
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Colin Stinton represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Colin is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Colin Stinton appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Colin. Rush is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 mystery, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Janus Metz, Costa-Gavras, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and others, Colin Stinton 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.
Rush (2013) as Teddy Mayer · The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) as Neal Daniels · The Machinist (2004) as Inspector Rogers
Career snapshot
Ranked #14888 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1996–2022
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Rush
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Rush
Most frequent director
Brad Anderson
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Brad Anderson
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.6
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
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. TransSiberian, The Bourne Ultimatum, Proof — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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. Tomorrow Never Dies, In Love and War.
Most productive era
2000s
8 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 | 5.91 film | 7.16 films | 6.84 films | — |
| Action | 6.41 film | 7.22 films | 7.03 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 7.05 films | 6.62 films | 6.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.72 films | — | — |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 6.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1996In Love and War
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tom Burnside.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Rush
7.7 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 Moscow Station Chief.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Teddy Mayer
Directed by Ron Howard
as Neal Daniels
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as Inspector Rogers
Directed by Brad Anderson
as Hotel Clerk
Directed by Stephen Daldry
as Customs Officer
Directed by Mike Nichols
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
Teddy Mayer
Rush (2013)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Teddy Mayer gives Colin Stinton a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Neal Daniels
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Performance score7.3
The Bourne Ultimatum asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Neal Daniels is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Inspector Rogers
The Machinist (2004)
Performance score7.3
The Machinist asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inspector Rogers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hotel Clerk
The Hours (2002)
Performance score7.2
The Hours asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hotel 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 Teddy Mayer
Start here. Rush is the clearest statement of what Colin Stinton does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Colin 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.
The Hours (2002)
Keeps the drama register of Rush but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Machinist (2004)
Keeps the drama register of The Hours but asks for a colder reading of it.
Closer (2004)
Keeps the drama register of The Machinist but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Closer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brad Anderson
Director
3 films together
Notably The Machinist
Richard Attenborough
Director
1 film together
Notably In Love and War
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrow Never Dies
Tony Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Spy Game
Stephen Daldry
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hours
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Closer
John Maybury
Director
1 film together
Notably The Jacket
John Madden
Director
1 film together
Notably Proof
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bourne Ultimatum
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Rush
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Current War
Costa-Gavras
Director
1 film together
Notably Adults in the Room
Janus Metz
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Old Knives
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Brad Anderson
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The MachinistRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RushPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bourne UltimatumStephen Daldry
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HoursJohn Maybury
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The JacketTony Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spy GameMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CloserAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Current WarCosta-Gavras
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adults in the RoomJohn Madden
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ProofRoger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tomorrow Never DiesJanus Metz
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the Old KnivesRichard Attenborough
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In Love and WarSix 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
Rush
as Teddy Mayer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Closer
as Customs Officer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rush
as Teddy Mayer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
All the Old Knives
as Moscow Station Chief
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rush
as Teddy Mayer
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. Colin Stinton 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
11 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 Jacket
as Jury Foreman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Neal Daniels
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Closer
as Customs Officer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Jacket
as Jury Foreman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rush
as Teddy Mayer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Dave Greenwalt
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Current War
as Daniel Burnham
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Neal Daniels
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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