Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11128
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Damien Bonnard 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.
Damien Bonnard appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Damien. Poor Things is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Luc Picard, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Céline Sallette and others, Damien Bonnard 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.
Poor Things (2023) as Father · Les Misérables (2019) as Stéphane · Dunkirk (2017) as French Soldier
Career snapshot
Ranked #11128 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Poor Things
Average Nutevio score
4.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Poor Things
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.1
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
5.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Les Misérables, La paix intérieure, An Officer and a Spy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.0
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Les Misérables, La paix intérieure, An Officer and a Spy.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.85 films | 5.19 films |
| Action | 7.51 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.83 films | 3.02 films |
| Comedy | 2.62 films | 5.77 films |
| Crime | 4.83 films | 3.02 films |
| Romance | — | 6.53 films |
| Horror | 0.01 film | 7.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as The Sound Engineer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Les Misérables
7.6 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
2026Redemptions
The current state of the argument, as Benoît.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Stéphane
Directed by Unknown
as The Censor
Directed by Unknown
as Father
Directed by Unknown
as French Soldier
Directed by Christopher Nolan
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
Stéphane
Les Misérables (2019)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Stéphane gives Damien Bonnard a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The Censor
Censor of Dreams (2021)
Performance score7.8
Censor of Dreams asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Censor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Father
Poor Things (2023)
Performance score7.4
Poor Things asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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French Soldier
Dunkirk (2017)
Performance score7.3
Dunkirk asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. French Soldier 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 Stéphane
Start here. Les Misérables is the clearest statement of what Damien Bonnard does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Damien 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.
Dunkirk (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
Censor of Dreams (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Dunkirk but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Restless (2021)
Same director as Censor of Dreams, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Poor Things (2023)
Same director as The Restless, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roman Polanski
Director
2 films together
Notably An Officer and a Spy
Wes Anderson
Director
2 films together
Notably The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Dunkirk
Garth Jennings
Director
1 film together
Notably Madame
Céline Sallette
Director
1 film together
Notably Niki
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Serpent's Path
Luc Picard
Director
1 film together
Notably Redemptions
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunRoman Polanski
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
An Officer and a SpyChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DunkirkCéline Sallette
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NikiKiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Serpent's PathLuc Picard
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RedemptionsGarth Jennings
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MadameSix 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
Poor Things
as Father
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
An Officer and a Spy
as Desvernine
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Les Misérables
as Stéphane
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Poor Things
as Father
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Les Misérables
as Stéphane
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. Damien Bonnard 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.
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
14 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
Censor of Dreams
as The Censor
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Les Misérables
as Stéphane
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
An Officer and a Spy
as Desvernine
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Censor of Dreams
as The Censor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dunkirk
as French Soldier
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dunkirk
as French Soldier
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Victoria System
as David
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Asteroid City
as Bodyguard/Driver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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