Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#58358
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Daniel Sauli represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 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 Sauli appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Daniel. Bleed for This is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for thriller, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Uwe Boll, James DeMonaco, Ben Younger and others, Daniel Sauli 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.
Bleed for This (2016) as Jon · Boiler Room (2000) as Broker Steve · Deliver Us from Evil (2014) as Salvatore
Career snapshot
Ranked #58358 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2000–2025
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
Bleed for This
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Bleed for This
Most frequent director
Uwe Boll
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Uwe Boll
Most common genre
Thriller
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.3
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bleed for This, Deliver Us from Evil — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Pink Panther, Boiler Room.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 6.81 film | 5.41 film |
| Action | — | — | 5.51 film |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.31 film | 4.82 films |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | — | — |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 6.31 film | 5.51 film |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Boiler Room
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Broker Steve.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Bleed for This
6.8 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
2025Run
The current state of the argument, as Cappi.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Broker Steve
Directed by Ben Younger
as Jack
Directed by Uwe Boll
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
Jon
Bleed for This (2016)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jon gives Daniel Sauli a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Broker Steve
Boiler Room (2000)
Performance score6.6
Boiler Room asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Broker Steve is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cappi
Run (2025)
Performance score6.5
Run asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cappi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jack
First Shift (2024)
Performance score6.5
First Shift asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jack 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 Jon
Start here. Bleed for This is the clearest statement of what Daniel Sauli does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 6.8 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.
Boiler Room (2000)
Same director as Bleed for This, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
This Is the Night (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Boiler Room but asks for a colder reading of it.
First Shift (2024)
A deliberate change of key after This Is the Night — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Run (2025)
Same director as First Shift, 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.
Ben Younger
Director
2 films together
Notably Bleed for This
Uwe Boll
Director
2 films together
Notably First Shift
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Pink Panther
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably Deliver Us from Evil
James DeMonaco
Director
1 film together
Notably This Is the Night
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ben Younger
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
Bleed for ThisUwe Boll
Director
2 films together · 4.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
First ShiftScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deliver Us from EvilShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Pink PantherJames DeMonaco
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Is the NightSix 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
Bleed for This
as Jon
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bleed for This
as Jon
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Boiler Room
as Broker Steve
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Boiler Room
as Broker Steve
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bleed for This
as Jon
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 Sauli 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
25 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Bleed for This
as Jon
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Boiler Room
as Broker Steve
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bleed for This
as Jon
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Pink Panther
as Music Producer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bleed for This
as Jon
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
First Shift
as Jack
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Boiler Room
as Broker Steve
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deliver Us from Evil
as Salvatore
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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