Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15202
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gilles Lellouche 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.
Gilles Lellouche appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gilles. All Your Faces 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 comedy, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cédric Jimenez, Jeanne Herry, Thomas Bidegain and others, Gilles Lellouche 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.
All Your Faces (2023) as Grégoire · The Stronghold (2021) as Greg Cerva · Love Me If You Dare (2003) as Sergei Nimov Nimovitch
Career snapshot
Ranked #15202 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
All Your Faces
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
All Your Faces
Most frequent director
Cédric Jimenez
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Cédric Jimenez
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Love Me If You Dare — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
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. Love Me If You Dare.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 7.11 film | 6.23 films | 5.88 films |
| Action | — | 6.61 film | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film | 6.54 films |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.23 films | 6.25 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.82 films |
| Romance | 7.11 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sergei Nimov Nimovitch.
Career peak
2021The Stronghold
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2023All Your Faces
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Moulin
The current state of the argument, as Jean Moulin.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Greg Cerva
Directed by Cédric Jimenez
as Grégoire
Directed by Jeanne Herry
as Ben
Directed by Thomas Bidegain
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Greg Cerva
The Stronghold (2021)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Greg Cerva gives Gilles Lellouche a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Armand
La Vénus électrique (2026)
Performance score7.2
La Vénus électrique asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Armand is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Grégoire
All Your Faces (2023)
Performance score7.2
All Your Faces asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Grégoire is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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François
Bazaar (Murder in the Building) (2026)
Performance score7.1
Bazaar (Murder in the Building) asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. François 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 Greg Cerva
Start here. The Stronghold is the clearest statement of what Gilles Lellouche does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gilles 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.
All Your Faces (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Stronghold — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Suddenly (2023)
Keeps the drama register of All Your Faces but asks for a colder reading of it.
La Vénus électrique (2026)
Keeps the drama register of Suddenly but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bazaar (Murder in the Building) (2026)
Same director as La Vénus électrique, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Cédric Jimenez
Director
3 films together
Notably The Stronghold
Mohamed Hamidi
Director
1 film together
Notably New Biz in the Hood
Jérôme Salle
Director
1 film together
Notably Kompromat
Thomas Bidegain
Director
1 film together
Notably Suddenly
Jeanne Herry
Director
1 film together
Notably All Your Faces
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Cédric Jimenez
Director
3 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The StrongholdJeanne Herry
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Your FacesThomas Bidegain
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuddenlyJérôme Salle
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KompromatMohamed Hamidi
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New Biz in the HoodSix 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
All Your Faces
as Grégoire
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love Me If You Dare
as Sergei Nimov Nimovitch
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
All Your Faces
as Grégoire
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Man with the Iron Heart
as Václav Morávek
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Stronghold
as Greg Cerva
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. Gilles Lellouche 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
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
All Your Faces
as Grégoire
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Stronghold
as Greg Cerva
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Love Me If You Dare
as Sergei Nimov Nimovitch
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Stronghold
as Greg Cerva
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Stronghold
as Greg Cerva
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Stronghold
as Greg Cerva
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
La Vénus électrique
as Armand
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
as Obélix
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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