Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3628
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dean Redman 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.
Dean Redman appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dean. Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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 romance, tv movie, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ron Oliver, Adam Stein, Matt Reeves and others, Dean Redman 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.
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind (2019) as Sheriff · Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) as Security Guard #2 · War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) as Commanding Officer
Career snapshot
Ranked #3628 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2005–2020
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
Most frequent director
Ron Oliver
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ron Oliver
Most common genre
Science Fiction
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind, Freaks, War for the Planet of the Apes — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 10 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 Day the Earth Stood Still, White Noise 2: The Light, The Hard Corps.
Most productive era
2010s
10 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 | 5.71 film | 6.74 films | — |
| Action | 6.11 film | 6.55 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.83 films | 6.44 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 5.41 film | — |
| Crime | — | 7.91 film | — |
| Romance | — | 5.41 film | 6.41 film |
| Horror | 5.61 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005The Hard Corps
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Drive By Passenger.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
7.9 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 Sheriff Conway.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Security Guard #2
Directed by Rupert Wyatt
as Commanding Officer
Directed by Matt Reeves
as ADF Captain
Directed by Adam Stein
as Light Jet Sentry
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
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
Sheriff
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind (2019)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sheriff gives Dean Redman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Security Guard #2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Performance score7.2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Security Guard #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Commanding Officer
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Performance score7.1
War for the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Commanding Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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ADF Captain
Freaks (2019)
Performance score6.7
Freaks asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. ADF Captain 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 Sheriff
Start here. Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind is the clearest statement of what Dean Redman does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dean 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.
TRON: Legacy (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Keeps the action register of TRON: Legacy but asks for a colder reading of it.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Keeps the science fiction register of Rise of the Planet of the Apes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Freaks (2019)
Keeps the science fiction register of War for the Planet of the Apes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sheldon Lettich
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hard Corps
Patrick Lussier
Director
1 film together
Notably White Noise 2: The Light
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Stood Still
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably TRON: Legacy
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla
José Padilha
Director
1 film together
Notably RoboCop
Duncan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Warcraft
Zack Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably Come and Find Me
William H. Macy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Layover
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably War for the Planet of the Apes
Adam Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably Freaks
Ron Oliver
Director
1 film together
Notably A Timeless Christmas
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the Planet of the ApesMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War for the Planet of the ApesAdam Stein
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreaksJoseph 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: LegacyRon Oliver
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Timeless ChristmasDuncan Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WarcraftGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GodzillaSheldon Lettich
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hard CorpsJosé Padilha
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoboCopScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day the Earth Stood StillZack Whedon
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come and Find MePatrick Lussier
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Noise 2: The LightWilliam H. Macy
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The LayoverSix 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
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Sheriff
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 Timeless Christmas
as Sheriff Conway
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Sheriff
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
RoboCop
as Omnicorp Exterior Security
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Sheriff
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. Dean Redman 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
7 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
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Sheriff
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Sheriff
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Timeless Christmas
as Sheriff Conway
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines that Bind
as Sheriff
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Security Guard #2
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
TRON: Legacy
as Light Jet Sentry
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
War for the Planet of the Apes
as Commanding Officer
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Security Guard #2
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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