Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7520
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Edwin Hodge represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Edwin is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Edwin Hodge appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Edwin. The Tomorrow War 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 science fiction, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matt Peters, Travis Knight, James DeMonaco and others, Edwin Hodge 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 Tomorrow War (2021) as Dorian · Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) as Dexter's Friend · Injustice (2021) as Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific / Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #7520 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1995–2024
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Tomorrow War
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Tomorrow War
Most frequent director
Matt Peters
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Matt Peters
Most common genre
Science Fiction
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.6
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
1990s
7.4 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Die Hard: With a Vengeance — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Die Hard: With a Vengeance.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.81 film | 6.01 film | 6.31 film |
| Action | 7.41 film | — | 6.22 films | 7.42 films |
| Thriller | 7.41 film | — | 6.02 films | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dexter's Friend.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The Tomorrow War
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
2024Parallel
The current state of the argument, as Martel.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Dorian
Directed by Unknown
as Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific / Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Dexter's Friend
Directed by John McTiernan
as Danny Bell
Directed by Travis Knight
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
Dorian
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dorian gives Edwin Hodge a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific / Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice)
Injustice (2021)
Performance score7.2
Injustice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michael Holt / Mr. Terrific / Waylon Jones / Killer Croc (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dexter's Friend
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Performance score7.2
Die Hard: With a Vengeance asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dexter's Friend is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Martel
Parallel (2024)
Performance score6.8
Parallel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Martel 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 Dorian
Start here. The Tomorrow War is the clearest statement of what Edwin Hodge does — accessible, 138 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Edwin 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.
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Keeps the action register of The Tomorrow War but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bumblebee (2018)
Keeps the action register of Die Hard: With a Vengeance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Injustice (2021)
Keeps the action register of Bumblebee but asks for a colder reading of it.
Parallel (2024)
Keeps the science fiction register of Injustice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John McTiernan
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Hard: With a Vengeance
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably The Alamo
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Take Me Home Tonight
Dan Bradley
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dawn
James DeMonaco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Purge
Travis Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Bumblebee
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Injustice
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
John McTiernan
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die Hard: With a VengeanceMatt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InjusticeTravis Knight
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BumblebeeJames DeMonaco
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 PurgeMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Take Me Home TonightJohn Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AlamoDan Bradley
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DawnSix 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 Tomorrow War
as Dorian
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Take Me Home Tonight
as Bryce
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Dexter's Friend
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bumblebee
as Danny Bell
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Tomorrow War
as Dorian
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. Edwin Hodge 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
29 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.
Science Fiction Legend
Awarded
5 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
The Tomorrow War
as Dorian
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Dexter's Friend
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Take Me Home Tonight
as Bryce
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Dexter's Friend
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Tomorrow War
as Dorian
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Bumblebee
as Danny Bell
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Take Me Home Tonight
as Bryce
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Dexter's Friend
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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