Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5319
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gabriel Basso 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.
Gabriel Basso appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gabriel. The Strangers is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 horror, thriller, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Renny Harlin, Rachel Morrison, Kathryn Bigelow and others, Gabriel Basso 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.
The Strangers (2026) as Gregory · The Kings of Summer (2013) as Patrick Keenan · Juror #2 (2024) as James Michael Sythe
Career snapshot
Ranked #5319 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Strangers
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Strangers
Most frequent director
Renny Harlin
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Renny Harlin
Most common genre
Thriller
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Whole Truth, Barely Lethal, The Kings of Summer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Meet Bill.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.11 film | 6.82 films | 5.04 films |
| Action | — | 5.71 film | 5.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.72 films | 6.56 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 6.53 films | — |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 5.71 film | 0.01 film |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film | 6.44 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Meet Bill
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kid with Cancer (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026The Strangers
7.7 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
The current state of the argument, as Charlie.
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 Gregory
Directed by Renny Harlin
as Patrick Keenan
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
as James Michael Sythe
Directed by Clint Eastwood
as J.D. Vance
Directed by Ron Howard
as Deputy National Security Advisor Jake Baerington
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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
Gregory
The Strangers (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Gregory gives Gabriel Basso a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patrick Keenan
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Performance score7.4
The Kings of Summer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patrick Keenan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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James Michael Sythe
Juror #2 (2024)
Performance score7.1
Juror #2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. James Michael Sythe is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Performance score7.1
Hillbilly Elegy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. J.D. Vance 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 Gregory
Start here. The Strangers is the clearest statement of what Gabriel Basso does — accessible, 270 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gabriel 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 Kings of Summer (2013)
A deliberate change of key after The Strangers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Kings of Summer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Juror #2 (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Hillbilly Elegy but asks for a colder reading of it.
A House of Dynamite (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Juror #2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Renny Harlin
Director
4 films together
Notably The Strangers
Melisa Wallack
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet Bill
Gary Trousdale
Director
1 film together
Notably Scared Shrekless
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Super 8
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kings of Summer
Courtney Hunt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Truth
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Hillbilly Elegy
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably Juror #2
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably A House of Dynamite
Rachel Morrison
Director
1 film together
Notably Love of Your Life
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Renny Harlin
Director
4 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The StrangersJordan Vogt-Roberts
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Kings of SummerClint Eastwood
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Juror #2J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Super 8Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hillbilly ElegyGary Trousdale
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Scared ShreklessCourtney Hunt
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Whole TruthKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A House of DynamiteMelisa Wallack
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet BillRachel Morrison
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love of Your LifeSix 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
Juror #2
as James Michael Sythe
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Meet Bill
as Kid with Cancer (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Strangers
as Gregory
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Scared Shrekless
as Teenager (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Strangers
as Gregory
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. Gabriel Basso 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Strangers
as Gregory
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Strangers
as Gregory
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Meet Bill
as Kid with Cancer (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Super 8
as Martin Read
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Strangers
as Gregory
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Trigger Warning
as Mike
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Meet Bill
as Kid with Cancer (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Meet Bill
as Kid with Cancer (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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