Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12028
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Dustin Demri-Burns 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.
Dustin Demri-Burns appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dustin. The Spy Who Dumped Me is the clearest case: a film rated 6.4 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 comedy, fantasy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ben Gregor, Dominic Brigstocke, Susanna Fogel and others, Dustin Demri-Burns 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.
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) as Viktor · The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) as Saucepan Man · All My Friends Hate Me (2022) as Harry
Career snapshot
Ranked #12028 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.4
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Average Nutevio score
4.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.4
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Most frequent director
Ben Gregor
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ben Gregor
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
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
6.2
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
5.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Tales from the Lodge, Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans, The Spy Who Dumped Me — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.6
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.6
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. Tales from the Lodge, Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans, The Spy Who Dumped Me.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.41 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 5.64 films | 3.02 films |
| Romance | 5.51 film | — |
| Horror | 5.41 film | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013I Give It a Year
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dove Violinist.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
6.4 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.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Saucepan Man.
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 Viktor
Directed by Susanna Fogel
as Saucepan Man
Directed by Ben Gregor
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
Viktor
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Performance score6.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Viktor gives Dustin Demri-Burns a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hugo Fox
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint (2026)
Performance score6.5
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hugo Fox is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Saucepan Man
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026)
Performance score6.5
The Magic Faraway Tree asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Saucepan Man is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harry
All My Friends Hate Me (2022)
Performance score6.5
All My Friends Hate Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harry 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 Viktor
Start here. The Spy Who Dumped Me is the clearest statement of what Dustin Demri-Burns does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dustin 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.
Tales from the Lodge (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Spy Who Dumped Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
All My Friends Hate Me (2022)
Same director as Tales from the Lodge, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint (2026)
Same director as All My Friends Hate Me, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably I Give It a Year
Susanna Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spy Who Dumped Me
Dominic Brigstocke
Director
1 film together
Notably Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Ben Gregor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magic Faraway Tree
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Susanna Fogel
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spy Who Dumped MeBen Gregor
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Magic Faraway TreeDan Mazer
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Give It a YearDominic Brigstocke
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten RomansSix 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
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Viktor
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Saucepan Man
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Viktor
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Cedric
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Viktor
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. Dustin Demri-Burns 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Saucepan Man
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
All My Friends Hate Me
as Harry
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Saucepan Man
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Saucepan Man
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Viktor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Viktor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
as Cedric
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Spy Who Dumped Me
as Viktor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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