Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4884
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Glenn Fleshler 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.
Glenn Fleshler appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Glenn. Joker is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Grant Heslov, Joachim Rønning, Paul Solet and others, Glenn Fleshler 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.
Joker (2019) as Randall · Young Woman and the Sea (2024) as James Sullivan · Good Night, and Good Luck (2025) as Fred W. Friendly
Career snapshot
Ranked #4884 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2010–2025
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Joker
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Joker
Most frequent director
Grant Heslov
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Grant Heslov
Most common genre
Drama
12 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
6.4
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
2020s
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Good Night, and Good Luck, Young Woman and the Sea, Clean — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Joker, High Flying Bird, Irreplaceable You.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 6.69 films | 7.03 films |
| Action | — | 6.21 film |
| Thriller | 6.84 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.43 films | 6.01 film |
| Crime | 7.03 films | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 6.53 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010All Good Things
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sidney Greenhaus.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Joker
8.4 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
The current state of the argument, as Fred W. Friendly.
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 Randall
Directed by Todd Phillips
as James Sullivan
Directed by Joachim Rønning
as Fred W. Friendly
Directed by Grant Heslov
as Mean Phil
Directed by Stephanie Laing
as Hal and Jasmine's Friend
Directed by Woody Allen
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
Randall
Joker (2019)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Randall gives Glenn Fleshler a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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James Sullivan
Young Woman and the Sea (2024)
Performance score7.5
Young Woman and the Sea asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. James Sullivan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Fred W. Friendly
Good Night, and Good Luck (2025)
Performance score7.4
Good Night, and Good Luck asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fred W. Friendly is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mean Phil
Irreplaceable You (2018)
Performance score6.9
Irreplaceable You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mean Phil is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Randall
Start here. Joker is the clearest statement of what Glenn Fleshler does — accessible, 122 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Glenn 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.
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Joker but asks for a colder reading of it.
Irreplaceable You (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Blue Jasmine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Young Woman and the Sea (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Irreplaceable You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Good Night, and Good Luck (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Young Woman and the Sea but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrew Jarecki
Director
1 film together
Notably All Good Things
Kenneth Lonergan
Director
1 film together
Notably Margaret
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Jasmine
Tom McCarthy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cobbler
J.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together
Notably A Most Violent Year
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Suburbicon
Stephanie Laing
Director
1 film together
Notably Irreplaceable You
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Joker
Josh Ruben
Director
1 film together
Notably Werewolves Within
Paul Solet
Director
1 film together
Notably Clean
Joachim Rønning
Director
1 film together
Notably Young Woman and the Sea
Grant Heslov
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Night, and Good Luck
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JokerJoachim Rønning
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Young Woman and the SeaGrant Heslov
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Night, and Good LuckStephanie Laing
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Irreplaceable YouWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue JasmineJ.C. Chandor
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Most Violent YearKenneth Lonergan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MargaretPaul Solet
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CleanAndrew Jarecki
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All Good ThingsJosh Ruben
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Werewolves WithinGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuburbiconTom McCarthy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CobblerSix 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
Joker
as Randall
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Good Night, and Good Luck
as Fred W. Friendly
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Joker
as Randall
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Delivery Man
as Coffee Shop Owner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Joker
as Randall
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. Glenn Fleshler 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.
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
Joker
as Randall
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Joker
as Randall
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Good Night, and Good Luck
as Fred W. Friendly
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Suburbicon
as Ira Sloan
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Joker
as Randall
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Clean
as Michael
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Irreplaceable You
as Mean Phil
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Joker
as Randall
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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