Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5230
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Dylan Kenin 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.
Dylan Kenin appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Dylan. Only the Brave is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 crime, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Taylor Sheridan, Robert Lorenz, Ric Roman Waugh and others, Dylan Kenin 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.
Only the Brave (2017) as Robert Caldwell · Sicario (2015) as Delta Leader · Hell or High Water (2016) as Road Block Trooper
Career snapshot
Ranked #5230 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Only the Brave
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Only the Brave
Most frequent director
Taylor Sheridan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Taylor Sheridan
Most common genre
Thriller
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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. Shot Caller, Only the Brave, War on Everyone — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 15 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. Gamer, Terminator Salvation.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | — | 6.79 films | 6.81 film |
| Action | 5.92 films | 6.24 films | 6.72 films |
| Thriller | 5.92 films | 6.56 films | 4.53 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.03 films | — |
| Crime | — | 7.23 films | 0.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Gamer
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Train Guard.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Only the Brave
7.5 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
2026Splash City
The current state of the argument.
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.
21 of 21 films
as Robert Caldwell
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Road Block Trooper
Directed by David Mackenzie
as Delta Leader
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Larry
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Trustee
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
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
Robert Caldwell
Only the Brave (2017)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Robert Caldwell gives Dylan Kenin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Road Block Trooper
Hell or High Water (2016)
Performance score7.2
Hell or High Water asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Road Block Trooper is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Delta Leader
Sicario (2015)
Performance score7.2
Sicario asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Delta Leader is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Larry
Let Me In (2010)
Performance score7.0
Let Me In asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Larry 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 Robert Caldwell
Start here. Only the Brave is the clearest statement of what Dylan Kenin does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Dylan 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.
Let Me In (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Only the Brave but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sicario (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Let Me In — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hell or High Water (2016)
Keeps the crime register of Sicario but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shot Caller (2017)
Keeps the crime register of Hell or High Water but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Terminator Salvation
Brian Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Gamer
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably Let Me In
Michael Berry
Director
1 film together
Notably Frontera
Wally Pfister
Director
1 film together
Notably Transcendence
Seth MacFarlane
Director
1 film together
Notably A Million Ways to Die in the West
Andrew Niccol
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Kill
Roel Reiné
Director
1 film together
Notably The Condemned 2
Denis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together
Notably Sicario
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
David Mackenzie
Director
1 film together
Notably Hell or High Water
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magnificent Seven
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Only the Brave
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together
Notably Shot Caller
Robert Lorenz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marksman
Taylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably Those Who Wish Me Dead
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only the BraveDenis Villeneuve
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SicarioDavid Mackenzie
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hell or High WaterRic Roman Waugh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shot CallerRobert Lorenz
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MarksmanMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Let Me InTaylor Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Those Who Wish Me DeadStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Magnificent SevenMichael Berry
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FronteraGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whiskey Tango FoxtrotSeth MacFarlane
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Million Ways to Die in the WestWally Pfister
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TranscendenceMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Terminator SalvationAndrew Niccol
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good KillBrian Taylor
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GamerRoel Reiné
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Condemned 2Six 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
Only the Brave
as Robert Caldwell
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Only the Brave
as Robert Caldwell
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Only the Brave
as Robert Caldwell
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
War on Everyone
as Henchman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Only the Brave
as Robert Caldwell
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. Dylan Kenin 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
11 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
Let Me In
as Larry
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sicario
as Delta Leader
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Only the Brave
as Robert Caldwell
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Let Me In
as Larry
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sicario
as Delta Leader
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Magnificent Seven
as Cooper
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as Antoine
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Good Kill
as Capt. Ed Christie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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