Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11531
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Evan Parke 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.
Evan Parke appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Evan. Django Unchained is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 romance, comedy, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Claire Scanlon, Anthony Russo, Quentin Tarantino and others, Evan Parke 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.
Django Unchained (2012) as Baghead · Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) as SHIELD Agent · Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) as Dexter Clinic Guard
Career snapshot
Ranked #11531 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1999–2020
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Django Unchained
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Django Unchained
Most frequent director
Claire Scanlon
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Claire Scanlon
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 57m
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
7.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Set It Up, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Django Unchained — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.6
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. The Cider House Rules.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.11 film | 6.72 films | 8.41 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.42 films | 7.71 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.43 films | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.02 films | 6.91 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jack.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2012Django Unchained
8.4 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
2020Athol Park
The current state of the argument, as Frederick Munroe.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Baghead
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as SHIELD Agent
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Dexter Clinic Guard
Directed by Shane Black
as Hayes
Directed by Peter Jackson
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
Baghead
Django Unchained (2012)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Baghead gives Evan Parke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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SHIELD Agent
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Performance score7.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. SHIELD Agent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dexter Clinic Guard
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Performance score7.1
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dexter Clinic Guard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jack
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Performance score7.0
The Cider House Rules asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jack 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 Baghead
Start here. Django Unchained is the clearest statement of what Evan Parke does — accessible, 165 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Evan 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 Cider House Rules (1999)
Keeps the drama register of Django Unchained but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
A deliberate change of key after The Cider House Rules — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
King Kong (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Keeps the action register of King Kong but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cider House Rules
Howard Deutch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Replacements
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Planet of the Apes
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Peter Jackson
Director
1 film together
Notably King Kong
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Django Unchained
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Claire Scanlon
Director
1 film together
Notably Set It Up
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Django UnchainedAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: The Winter SoldierShane Black
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss Kiss Bang BangLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cider House RulesPeter Jackson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King KongClaire Scanlon
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Set It UpHoward Deutch
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ReplacementsTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Planet of the ApesSix 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
Django Unchained
as Baghead
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 Cider House Rules
as Jack
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Django Unchained
as Baghead
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Django Unchained
as Baghead
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Django Unchained
as Baghead
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. Evan Parke 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
21 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
4 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
Django Unchained
as Baghead
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Dexter Clinic Guard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Cider House Rules
as Jack
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Dexter Clinic Guard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Django Unchained
as Baghead
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as SHIELD Agent
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Django Unchained
as Baghead
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Django Unchained
as Baghead
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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