Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7683
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Conrad Coates represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Conrad is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Conrad Coates appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Conrad. A Dog's Journey 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, horror, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Corin Hardy, Nahnatchka Khan, Kristoffer Borgli and others, Conrad Coates 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.
A Dog's Journey (2019) as Big Joe · Totally Killer (2023) as Doug Summers · Dream Scenario (2023) as Dinner Guest #1
Career snapshot
Ranked #7683 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1995–2026
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
A Dog's Journey
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
A Dog's Journey
Most frequent director
Corin Hardy
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Corin Hardy
Most common genre
Science Fiction
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.5
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
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. To Die For — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.6
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. To Die For.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.33 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.43 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.01 film | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.32 films | 6.82 films |
| Crime | 6.61 film | 5.42 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.21 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.62 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995To Die For
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Weaselly Guy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019A Dog's Journey
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
2026Whistle
The current state of the argument, as Clayton Jackson.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Big Joe
Directed by Gail Mancuso
as Doug Summers
Directed by Nahnatchka Khan
as Dinner Guest #1
Directed by Kristoffer Borgli
as Bartik
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Weaselly Guy
Directed by Gus Van Sant
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
Big Joe
A Dog's Journey (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Big Joe gives Conrad Coates a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Doug Summers
Totally Killer (2023)
Performance score6.7
Totally Killer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Doug Summers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dinner Guest #1
Dream Scenario (2023)
Performance score6.6
Dream Scenario asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dinner Guest #1 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bartik
TRON: Legacy (2010)
Performance score6.6
TRON: Legacy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bartik 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 Big Joe
Start here. A Dog's Journey is the clearest statement of what Conrad Coates does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Conrad 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.
To Die For (1995)
Keeps the drama register of A Dog's Journey but asks for a colder reading of it.
TRON: Legacy (2010)
A deliberate change of key after To Die For — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Totally Killer (2023)
Keeps the science fiction register of TRON: Legacy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dream Scenario (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Totally Killer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably To Die For
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably TRON: Legacy
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably This Means War
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Apocalypse
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably Anon
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Welcome to Marwen
Lisa Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter
Gail Mancuso
Director
1 film together
Notably A Dog's Journey
April Mullen
Director
1 film together
Notably Simulant
Kristoffer Borgli
Director
1 film together
Notably Dream Scenario
Nahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Totally Killer
Corin Hardy
Director
1 film together
Notably Whistle
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Gail Mancuso
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Dog's JourneyNahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Totally KillerKristoffer Borgli
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dream ScenarioJoseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TRON: LegacyGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Die ForRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Welcome to MarwenBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: ApocalypseCorin Hardy
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WhistleMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Means WarChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AnonApril Mullen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SimulantLisa Robinson
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her DaughterSix 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 Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
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 Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
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 Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
X-Men: Apocalypse
as Pentagon General Fields
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
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. Conrad Coates 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
31 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in science fiction, 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
A Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Whistle
as Clayton Jackson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Anon
as Detective Fuchs
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Dog's Journey
as Big Joe
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
TRON: Legacy
as Bartik
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
To Die For
as Weaselly Guy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
TRON: Legacy
as Bartik
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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