Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19869
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Georges St-Pierre 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.
Georges St-Pierre appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Georges. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 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 drama, documentary, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James A. Woods, Kevin Grevioux, John Stockwell and others, Georges St-Pierre 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.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) as Georges Batroc · French Girl (2024) as Fighter · King of Killers (2023) as Andre Lecroix
Career snapshot
Ranked #19869 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2014–2026
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Most frequent director
James A. Woods
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With James A. Woods
Most common genre
Action
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Kickboxer: Vengeance, Captain America: The Winter Soldier — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Kickboxer: Vengeance, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 5.11 film | 0.01 film |
| Action | 6.42 films | 5.22 films |
| Thriller | — | 5.22 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.31 film |
| Crime | — | 4.01 film |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Georges Batroc. 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
2026Taming The Beast
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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 Georges Batroc
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Self
Directed by Unknown
as Fighter
Directed by James A. Woods
as Andre Lecroix
Directed by Kevin Grevioux
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
Georges Batroc
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Georges Batroc gives Georges St-Pierre a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self
Taming The Beast (2026)
Performance score6.5
Taming The Beast asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fighter
French Girl (2024)
Performance score6.5
French Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fighter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Reaper
Hitmen (2023)
Performance score6.5
Hitmen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Reaper 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 Georges Batroc
Start here. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the clearest statement of what Georges St-Pierre does — accessible, 136 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Georges 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.
Hitmen (2023)
Keeps the action register of Captain America: The Winter Soldier but asks for a colder reading of it.
King of Killers (2023)
Keeps the action register of Hitmen but asks for a colder reading of it.
French Girl (2024)
A deliberate change of key after King of Killers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Taming The Beast (2026)
A deliberate change of key after French Girl — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: The Winter Soldier
John Stockwell
Director
1 film together
Notably Kickboxer: Vengeance
Kevin Grevioux
Director
1 film together
Notably King of Killers
James A. Woods
Director
1 film together
Notably French Girl
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony 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 SoldierJames A. Woods
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
French GirlKevin Grevioux
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King of KillersJohn Stockwell
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kickboxer: VengeanceSix 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
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
French Girl
as Fighter
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
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. Georges St-Pierre 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in action, 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
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
French Girl
as Fighter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hitmen
as The Reaper
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Georges Batroc
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
French Girl
as Fighter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
French Girl
as Fighter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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