Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#24247
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gabe Fazio 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.
Gabe Fazio appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gabe. A Star Is Born is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for music, drama, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Libby Ewing, Bradley Cooper, Derek Cianfrance and others, Gabe Fazio 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.
A Star Is Born (2018) as Tommy · Plainclothes (2025) as Uncle Paul · Roofman (2025) as Randy
Career snapshot
Ranked #24247 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
A Star Is Born
Average Nutevio score
4.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
A Star Is Born
Most frequent director
Bradley Cooper
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Bradley Cooper
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.2
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
5.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mad?, Crypto, A Star Is Born — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.0
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. Mad?, Crypto, A Star Is Born.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 5.04 films | 4.38 films |
| Thriller | 5.41 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.83 films |
| Crime | 6.22 films | 7.13 films |
| Romance | 7.51 film | 5.04 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013The Place Beyond the Pines
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Scott.
Highest rated performance
2018A Star Is Born
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Plainclothes
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Hot Water
The current state of the argument.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Uncle Paul
Directed by Unknown
as Tommy
Directed by Bradley Cooper
as Randy
Directed by Derek Cianfrance
as Tom Anderson
Directed by Tobias Lindholm
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
Uncle Paul
Plainclothes (2025)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Uncle Paul gives Gabe Fazio a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Tommy
A Star Is Born (2018)
Performance score7.3
A Star Is Born asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tommy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Randy
Roofman (2025)
Performance score7.0
Roofman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Randy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Scott
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
Performance score6.9
The Place Beyond the Pines asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Scott 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 Uncle Paul
Start here. Plainclothes is the clearest statement of what Gabe Fazio does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gabe 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 Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
Keeps the crime register of Plainclothes but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Star Is Born (2018)
Keeps the drama register of The Place Beyond the Pines but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Good Nurse (2022)
Keeps the drama register of A Star Is Born but asks for a colder reading of it.
Roofman (2025)
Keeps the crime register of The Good Nurse but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bradley Cooper
Director
3 films together
Notably A Star Is Born
Derek Cianfrance
Director
2 films together
Notably Roofman
Tobias Lindholm
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good Nurse
Stephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together
Notably Nonnas
Libby Ewing
Director
1 film together
Notably Charliebird
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bradley Cooper
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
A Star Is BornDerek Cianfrance
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
RoofmanTobias Lindholm
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 Good NurseStephen Chbosky
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NonnasLibby Ewing
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CharliebirdSix 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
A Star Is Born
as Tommy
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Star Is Born
as Tommy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Star Is Born
as Tommy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Maestro
as Willard the Assistant
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Plainclothes
as Uncle Paul
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. Gabe Fazio 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
12 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
The Good Nurse
as Tom Anderson
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Good Nurse
as Tom Anderson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Maestro
as Willard the Assistant
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Good Nurse
as Tom Anderson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Star Is Born
as Tommy
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Roofman
as Randy
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Roofman
as Randy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Maestro
as Willard the Assistant
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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