Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4025
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Enzo Cilenti 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.
Enzo Cilenti appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Enzo. Guardians of the Galaxy is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 horror, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Brady Dowad, David Ayer, Tom Harper and others, Enzo Cilenti 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.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) as Watchtower Guard · The Martian (2015) as Mike Watkins · The Theory of Everything (2014) as Kip Thorne
Career snapshot
Ranked #4025 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Guardians of the Galaxy
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Guardians of the Galaxy
Most frequent director
Ben Wheatley
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ben Wheatley
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Juliet, Naked, Free Fire, The Man with the Iron Heart — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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 Fourth Kind, Nine, Next.
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 | 5.51 film | 6.76 films | 6.91 film |
| Action | 6.11 film | 6.84 films | 7.02 films |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | 6.61 film | 7.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.23 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.32 films | 7.02 films |
| Romance | 5.51 film | 6.93 films | — |
| Horror | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Next
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mr. Jones.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.1 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
2026Clown Song
The current state of the argument, as The Clown.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Watchtower Guard
Directed by James Gunn
as Mike Watkins
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Rico Anzalone
Directed by David Ayer
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Watchtower Guard
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Watchtower Guard gives Enzo Cilenti a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mike Watkins
The Martian (2015)
Performance score7.7
The Martian asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mike Watkins is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kip Thorne
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Performance score7.7
The Theory of Everything asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kip Thorne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rico Anzalone
The Beekeeper (2024)
Performance score7.2
The Beekeeper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rico Anzalone 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 Watchtower Guard
Start here. Guardians of the Galaxy is the clearest statement of what Enzo Cilenti does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Enzo 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.
The Theory of Everything (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Guardians of the Galaxy — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Martian (2015)
Keeps the drama register of The Theory of Everything but asks for a colder reading of it.
Across the River and into the Trees (2023)
Keeps the drama register of The Martian but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Beekeeper (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Across the River and into the Trees — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ben Wheatley
Director
2 films together
Notably Free Fire
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Next
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fourth Kind
Bruce Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rum Diary
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass 2
James Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Guardians of the Galaxy
James Marsh
Director
1 film together
Notably The Theory of Everything
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Martian
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Iron Heart
Jesse Peretz
Director
1 film together
Notably Juliet, Naked
Tom Harper
Director
1 film together
Notably Heart of Stone
David Ayer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beekeeper
Brady Dowad
Director
1 film together
Notably Clown Song
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ben Wheatley
Director
2 films together · 5.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Free FireJames Gunn
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Guardians of the GalaxyRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MartianJames Marsh
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Theory of EverythingDavid Ayer
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BeekeeperTom Harper
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heart of StoneCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the Iron HeartJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-Ass 2Olatunde Osunsanmi
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 Fourth KindJesse Peretz
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Juliet, NakedLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NextBruce Robinson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Rum DiaryRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NineBrady Dowad
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Clown SongSix 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
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
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 Theory of Everything
as Kip Thorne
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
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. Enzo Cilenti 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Beekeeper
as Rico Anzalone
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Theory of Everything
as Kip Thorne
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Fourth Kind
as Scott Stracinsky
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Watchtower Guard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Juliet, Naked
as Barnesy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Martian
as Mike Watkins
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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Built a career in the same territory: action and crime
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