Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#52865
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Glen Gordon works on quiet performance 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.
Glen Gordon appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Glen. The Main Event is the clearest case: a film rated 6.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, transformation, versatility. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Stephen S. Campanelli, Osgood Perkins, Jay Karas and others, Glen Gordon 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 Main Event (2020) as Caleb · Tomorrowland (2015) as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited) · How to Lose a Popularity Contest (2026) as Tyler
Career snapshot
Ranked #52865 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
2015–2026
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.4
The Main Event
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.4
The Main Event
Most frequent director
Stephen S. Campanelli
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Stephen S. Campanelli
Most common genre
Comedy
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Tomorrowland — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Tomorrowland.
Most productive era
2020s
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Comedy | — | 6.12 films |
| Romance | — | 5.71 film |
| Horror | — | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2015Tomorrowland
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited). Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2020The Main Event
6.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026How to Lose a Popularity Contest
The current state of the argument, as Tyler.
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.
4 of 4 films
as Tyler
Directed by Stephen S. Campanelli
as Teen Malcolm
Directed by Osgood Perkins
as Caleb
Directed by Jay Karas
as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
Directed by Brad Bird
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
Tyler
How to Lose a Popularity Contest (2026)
Performance score6.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tyler gives Glen Gordon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Teen Malcolm
Keeper (2025)
Performance score6.5
Keeper asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Teen Malcolm is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Caleb
The Main Event (2020)
Performance score6.5
The Main Event asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Caleb is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
Tomorrowland (2015)
Performance score6.5
Tomorrowland asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited) 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 Tyler
Start here. How to Lose a Popularity Contest is the clearest statement of what Glen Gordon does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 5.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Glen 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.
Tomorrowland (2015)
A deliberate change of key after How to Lose a Popularity Contest — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Main Event (2020)
Keeps the family register of Tomorrowland but asks for a colder reading of it.
Keeper (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Main Event — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrowland
Jay Karas
Director
1 film together
Notably The Main Event
Osgood Perkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Keeper
Stephen S. Campanelli
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose a Popularity Contest
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jay Karas
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Main EventBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TomorrowlandStephen S. Campanelli
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose a Popularity ContestOsgood Perkins
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KeeperSix 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
Tomorrowland
as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
How to Lose a Popularity Contest
as Tyler
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 Main Event
as Caleb
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tomorrowland
as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
How to Lose a Popularity Contest
as Tyler
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. Glen Gordon 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
2 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Tomorrowland
as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Keeper
as Teen Malcolm
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
How to Lose a Popularity Contest
as Tyler
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Keeper
as Teen Malcolm
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Tomorrowland
as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tomorrowland
as Donnie / Science Kid (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
How to Lose a Popularity Contest
as Tyler
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Keeper
as Teen Malcolm
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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