Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#91964
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
François Raison 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.
François Raison appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without François. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Olivier Nakache, Stéphane Demoustier, Alexandre Astier and others, François Raison 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.
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice) · Just an Illusion (2026) as Jacques Duchesnay · The Great Arch (2025) as L'huissier Elysée
Career snapshot
Ranked #91964 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2018–2026
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Most frequent director
Alexandre Astier
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Alexandre Astier
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | — | 6.65 films |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | 6.72 films |
| Crime | — | 4.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vitrocéramix / Climatoseptix (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
7.9 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
2026Just an Illusion
The current state of the argument, as Jacques Duchesnay.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Jacques Duchesnay
Directed by Olivier Nakache
as L'huissier Elysée
Directed by Stéphane Demoustier
as Vitrocéramix / Climatoseptix (voice)
Directed by Alexandre Astier
as Lamorak de Galles
Directed by Alexandre Astier
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
Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Doctor / Radio Voice (voice) gives François Raison a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jacques Duchesnay
Just an Illusion (2026)
Performance score7.2
Just an Illusion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jacques Duchesnay is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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L'huissier Elysée
The Great Arch (2025)
Performance score6.8
The Great Arch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. L'huissier Elysée is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vitrocéramix / Climatoseptix (voice)
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (2018)
Performance score6.8
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vitrocéramix / Climatoseptix (voice) 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 Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
Start here. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is the clearest statement of what François Raison does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet François 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.
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (2018)
Keeps the family register of Little Amélie or the Character of Rain but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Great Arch (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) (2025)
Keeps the history register of The Great Arch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Just an Illusion (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alexandre Astier
Director
2 films together
Notably Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Thierry de Peretti
Director
1 film together
Notably Undercover
Stéphane Demoustier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Arch
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together
Notably Just an Illusion
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alexandre Astier
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic PotionOlivier Nakache
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just an IllusionStéphane Demoustier
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great ArchThierry de Peretti
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UndercoverSix 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
Just an Illusion
as Jacques Duchesnay
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (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
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
as Lamorak de Galles
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (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. François Raison 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
5 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
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
as Lamorak de Galles
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
as Vitrocéramix / Climatoseptix (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
as Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
as Vitrocéramix / Climatoseptix (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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