Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Dimitrius Pulido appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dimitrius. Alita: Battle Angel is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are transformation, action, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, David Dobkin and others, Dimitrius Pulido 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.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) as Cyborg Jacking Victim · Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) as Maitre d' · Machete (2010) as Bodyguard #3
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Dimitrius Pulido.
Films in Nutevio
5
1986–2019
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Alita: Battle Angel
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Alita: Battle Angel
Most frequent director
Robert Rodriguez
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Robert Rodriguez
Most common genre
Action
4 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
6.7
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Alita: Battle Angel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Change-Up — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 4 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
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Raw Deal.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 1980s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.11 film | 6.83 films |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.42 films |
| Crime | 6.11 film | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1986Raw Deal
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Body Guard (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
7.4 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 Cyborg Jacking Victim.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
as Maitre d'
Directed by Frank Miller
as Greased Up Lorno Guy
Directed by David Dobkin
as Bodyguard #3
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
as Body Guard (uncredited)
Directed by John Irvin
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
Cyborg Jacking Victim
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Cyborg Jacking Victim gives Dimitrius Pulido a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Maitre d'
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Performance score6.6
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Maitre d' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Greased Up Lorno Guy
The Change-Up (2011)
Performance score6.5
The Change-Up asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Greased Up Lorno Guy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bodyguard #3
Machete (2010)
Performance score6.5
Machete asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bodyguard #3 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 Cyborg Jacking Victim
Start here. Alita: Battle Angel is the clearest statement of what Dimitrius Pulido does — accessible, 122 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dimitrius 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.
Raw Deal (1986)
Keeps the action register of Alita: Battle Angel but asks for a colder reading of it.
Machete (2010)
Keeps the action register of Raw Deal but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Change-Up (2011)
Keeps the comedy register of Machete but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
A deliberate change of key after The Change-Up — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Rodriguez
Director
2 films together
Notably Alita: Battle Angel
John Irvin
Director
1 film together
Notably Raw Deal
David Dobkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Change-Up
Frank Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Rodriguez
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Alita: Battle AngelFrank Miller
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForDavid Dobkin
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Change-UpJohn Irvin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Raw DealSix 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
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Raw Deal
as Body Guard (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
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. Dimitrius Pulido 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in action, 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
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Maitre d'
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Maitre d'
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Alita: Battle Angel
as Cyborg Jacking Victim
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Raw Deal
as Body Guard (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Raw Deal
as Body Guard (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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