Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2904
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Daniel Roebuck represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Daniel is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Daniel Roebuck appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. Learning You is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 science fiction, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Daniel Roebuck, Rob Zombie, Don Coscarelli and others, Daniel Roebuck 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.
Learning You (2026) as Reggie Sinclair · Our Crossroads (2024) as Pastor Hopkins · Palau the Movie (2019) as Fred Renich
Career snapshot
Ranked #2904 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
1993–2026
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Learning You
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Learning You
Most frequent director
Rob Zombie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Rob Zombie
Most common genre
Horror
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. U.S. Marshals, The Fugitive — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.0
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. U.S. Marshals, The Fugitive.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 7.51 film | 6.42 films | 7.71 film | 5.02 films |
| Action | 7.02 films | 6.14 films | 5.81 film | 5.51 film |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | — | 5.81 film | 5.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 5.52 films | 6.31 film | 1.93 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.61 film | 6.02 films | 3.85 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1993The Fugitive
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Biggs.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Learning You
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Reggie Sinclair.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Reggie Sinclair
Directed by Unknown
as Pastor Hopkins
Directed by Unknown
as Biggs
Directed by Andrew Davis
as Medevac CO
Directed by Randall Wallace
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
Reggie Sinclair
Learning You (2026)
Performance score9.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Reggie Sinclair gives Daniel Roebuck a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fred Renich
Palau the Movie (2019)
Performance score8.0
Palau the Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fred Renich is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pastor Hopkins
Our Crossroads (2024)
Performance score7.8
Our Crossroads asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pastor Hopkins is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Biggs
The Fugitive (1993)
Performance score7.6
The Fugitive asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Biggs 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 Reggie Sinclair
Start here. Learning You is the clearest statement of what Daniel Roebuck does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Daniel 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 Fugitive (1993)
Keeps the drama register of Learning You but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Keeps the action register of The Fugitive but asks for a colder reading of it.
Palau the Movie (2019)
A deliberate change of key after We Were Soldiers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Our Crossroads (2024)
Same director as Palau the Movie, 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.
Rob Zombie
Director
2 films together
Notably 3 from Hell
Andrew Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fugitive
Stuart Baird
Director
1 film together
Notably U.S. Marshals
James Wong
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Destination
Randall Wallace
Director
1 film together
Notably We Were Soldiers
Kevin Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Steve Boyum
Director
1 film together
Notably Supercross
Marc Abraham
Director
1 film together
Notably Flash of Genius
Don Coscarelli
Director
1 film together
Notably John Dies at the End
Daniel Roebuck
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hail Mary
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rob Zombie
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
3 from HellAndrew Davis
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 FugitiveRandall Wallace
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Were SoldiersMarc Abraham
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flash of GeniusJames Wong
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final DestinationStuart Baird
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
U.S. MarshalsDon Coscarelli
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Dies at the EndSteve Boyum
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SupercrossKevin Allen
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination LondonDaniel Roebuck
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hail MarySix 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
Learning You
as Reggie Sinclair
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Supercross
as Mr. Lang
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Learning You
as Reggie Sinclair
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Getting LOST
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Learning You
as Reggie Sinclair
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. Daniel Roebuck 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
33 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in horror, 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
Learning You
as Reggie Sinclair
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Learning You
as Reggie Sinclair
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Supercross
as Mr. Lang
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
U.S. Marshals
as Biggs
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Learning You
as Reggie Sinclair
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
3 from Hell
as Morris Green
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
We Were Soldiers
as Medevac CO
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
John Dies at the End
as Largeman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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