Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6819
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Eric Breker 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.
Eric Breker appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Eric. Stargate: The Ark of Truth is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, rewatchability. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, tv movie, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Ziller, Michael Robison, Gareth Edwards and others, Eric Breker 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.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) as Col. Reynolds · Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans (2024) as Gerard · Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence (2019) as Derek Robinson
Career snapshot
Ranked #6819 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2002–2024
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans
Most frequent director
Paul Ziller
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Paul Ziller
Most common genre
Action
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 34m
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
6.4
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. Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence, Godzilla — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Walking Tall.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.41 film | 6.51 film | 6.61 film |
| Action | 6.24 films | 6.51 film | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | 5.82 films | — | 6.21 film |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Agent Curtis.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2008Stargate: The Ark of Truth
6.9 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
2024Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans
The current state of the argument, as Gerard.
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 Col. Reynolds
Directed by Robert C. Cooper
as Gerard
Directed by Paul Ziller
as Derek Robinson
Directed by Michael Robison
as Army Soldier
Directed by Gareth Edwards
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
Col. Reynolds
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
Performance score6.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Col. Reynolds gives Eric Breker a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gerard
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans (2024)
Performance score6.6
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gerard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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McBride
Mercy (2023)
Performance score6.5
Mercy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. McBride is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Derek Robinson
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence (2019)
Performance score6.5
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Derek Robinson 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 Col. Reynolds
Start here. Stargate: The Ark of Truth is the clearest statement of what Eric Breker does — accessible, 101 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Eric 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.
Godzilla (2014)
Keeps the action register of Stargate: The Ark of Truth but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Godzilla — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Mercy (2023)
Keeps the mystery register of Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence but asks for a colder reading of it.
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans (2024)
Keeps the mystery register of Mercy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Zucker
Director
1 film together
Notably Scary Movie 3
Kevin Bray
Director
1 film together
Notably Walking Tall
Robert C. Cooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla
Michael Robison
Director
1 film together
Notably Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer Sentence
Paul Ziller
Director
1 film together
Notably Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert C. Cooper
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stargate: The Ark of TruthPaul Ziller
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Curious Caterer: Foiled PlansMichael Robison
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Killer SentenceGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GodzillaGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men Origins: WolverineKevin Bray
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walking TallDavid Zucker
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scary Movie 3Six 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
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Col. Reynolds
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Walking Tall
as Deputy Ralston
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Col. Reynolds
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Godzilla
as Army Soldier
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Col. Reynolds
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. Eric Breker 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
22 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
6 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
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans
as Gerard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans
as Gerard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Walking Tall
as Deputy Ralston
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans
as Gerard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
as Col. Reynolds
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
as Special Forces Commander
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Walking Tall
as Deputy Ralston
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
as Agent Curtis
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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