Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11793
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gerard Monaco 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.
Gerard Monaco appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gerard. My Fault: London is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Greta Gerwig, Dani Girdwood, F. Gary Gray and others, Gerard Monaco 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.
My Fault: London (2025) as Martin · Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) as Alexio · Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) as First Order Commander
Career snapshot
Ranked #11793 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2004–2027
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
My Fault: London
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
My Fault: London
Most frequent director
Greta Gerwig
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Greta Gerwig
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
2000s
6.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Starter for 10, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.1
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. Starter for 10, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.41 film | 5.52 films | 6.72 films |
| Action | — | 6.82 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.31 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 5.72 films | 6.41 film |
| Crime | — | 4.82 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.41 film | 6.42 films | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Technician.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025My Fault: London
7.4 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
2027Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
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.
12 of 12 films
as Martin
Directed by Dani Girdwood
as First Order Commander
Directed by Rian Johnson
as Spanish Officer
Directed by Rob Marshall
Directed by Greta Gerwig
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
Martin
My Fault: London (2025)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Martin gives Gerard Monaco a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Alexio
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Performance score7.0
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alexio is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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First Order Commander
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Performance score6.9
Star Wars: The Last Jedi asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. First Order Commander is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Spanish Officer
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Performance score6.6
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Spanish Officer 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 Martin
Start here. My Fault: London is the clearest statement of what Gerard Monaco does — accessible, 119 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gerard 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.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
A deliberate change of key after My Fault: London — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Keeps the action register of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Star Wars: The Last Jedi — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Vaughan
Director
1 film together
Notably Starter for 10
Rob Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Fernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together
Notably 360
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Counselor
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Etan Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably Holmes & Watson
Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blitz
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably Lift
Dani Girdwood
Director
1 film together
Notably My Fault: London
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dani Girdwood
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Fault: LondonRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Last JediRob Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesF. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LiftTom Vaughan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Starter for 10Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlitzFernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
360Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CounselorEtan Cohen
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Holmes & WatsonGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Narnia: The Magician's NephewSix 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
My Fault: London
as Martin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Fault: London
as Martin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
My Fault: London
as Martin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as First Order Commander
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
My Fault: London
as Martin
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. Gerard Monaco 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
23 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
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
My Fault: London
as Martin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as First Order Commander
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Fault: London
as Martin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Holmes & Watson
as Titanic Ship Officer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as First Order Commander
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as First Order Commander
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
My Fault: London
as Martin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as First Order Commander
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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