Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#83053
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Estéban 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.
Estéban appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Estéban. Chicken for Linda! 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, 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, drama, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Camille Chamoux, Jérôme Commandeur, Vianney Lebasque and others, Estéban 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.
Chicken for Linda! (2023) as Serge (voice) · Sugar and Stars (2023) as Julien · Chamouxland : la reconstruction (2026)
Career snapshot
Ranked #83053 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Chicken for Linda!
Average Nutevio score
4.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Chicken for Linda!
Most frequent director
Camille Chamoux
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Camille Chamoux
Most common genre
Comedy
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 9m
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
6.1
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
5.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Fool — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.1
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. The Fool.
Most productive era
2020s
14 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 1.64 films |
| Comedy | 5.11 film | 5.010 films |
| Romance | — | 6.01 film |
| Horror | — | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019The Fool
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Le réceptionniste.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2026Anna VS the Kids
The current state of the argument, as Vigile.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Serge (voice)
Directed by Unknown
Directed by Camille Chamoux
as Vigile
Directed by Unknown
as Norbert
Directed by Unknown
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
Serge (voice)
Chicken for Linda! (2023)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Serge (voice) gives Estéban a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Julien
Sugar and Stars (2023)
Performance score6.6
Sugar and Stars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julien is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chamouxland : la reconstruction
Chamouxland : la reconstruction (2026)
Performance score6.5
Chamouxland : la reconstruction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vigile
Anna VS the Kids (2026)
Performance score6.5
Anna VS the Kids asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vigile 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 Serge (voice)
Start here. Chicken for Linda! is the clearest statement of what Estéban does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 6.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Estéban 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.
Sugar and Stars (2023)
Same director as Chicken for Linda!, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Vade Retro (2025)
Same director as Sugar and Stars, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Chamouxland : la reconstruction (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Vade Retro but asks for a colder reading of it.
Anna VS the Kids (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Chamouxland : la reconstruction but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jalil Lespert
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fool
Vianney Lebasque
Director
1 film together
Notably Selfie
Jérôme Commandeur
Director
1 film together
Notably Employee of the Month
Camille Chamoux
Director
1 film together
Notably Chamouxland : la reconstruction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Camille Chamoux
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chamouxland : la reconstructionJérôme Commandeur
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Employee of the MonthVianney Lebasque
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SelfieJalil Lespert
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 FoolSix 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
Sugar and Stars
as Julien
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Terrible Jungle
as Le Chimiste
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
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. Estéban 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
11 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
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Paris Rendez-vous
as Rémi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Vade Retro
as Norbert
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Terrible Jungle
as Le Chimiste
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Chicken for Linda!
as Serge (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lucky
as Narcos
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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