Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11055
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Goran D. Kleut 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.
Goran D. Kleut appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Goran. Hacksaw Ridge 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 action, comedy, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with George Miller, Garth Davis, Alex Proyas and others, Goran D. Kleut 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.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker · Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) as The Octoboss · The Great Gatsby (2013) as Head Waiter - Speakeasy
Career snapshot
Ranked #11055 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2013–2026
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Hacksaw Ridge
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Hacksaw Ridge
Most frequent director
Alex Proyas
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Alex Proyas
Most common genre
Action
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Nekrotronic, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Nekrotronic, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 7.92 films | 4.92 films |
| Action | 6.22 films | 4.34 films |
| Thriller | 5.41 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 7.41 film | 4.01 film |
| Horror | 5.83 films | 5.23 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013The Great Gatsby
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Head Waiter - Speakeasy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Hacksaw Ridge
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
2026Runner
The current state of the argument, as Luke.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
Directed by Mel Gibson
as The Octoboss
Directed by George Miller
as Head Waiter - Speakeasy
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
as Yates
Directed by Unknown
as Pirate with Broom
Directed by Espen Sandberg
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
Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Andy 'Ghoul' Walker gives Goran D. Kleut a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The Octoboss
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Performance score7.3
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Octoboss is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Head Waiter - Speakeasy
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Great Gatsby asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Head Waiter - Speakeasy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Yates
The Furnace (2020)
Performance score6.7
The Furnace asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Yates 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 Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
Start here. Hacksaw Ridge is the clearest statement of what Goran D. Kleut does — accessible, 139 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Goran 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.
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Hacksaw Ridge but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Great Gatsby — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Furnace (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
A deliberate change of key after The Furnace — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alex Proyas
Director
2 films together
Notably Gods of Egypt
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Gatsby
Stuart Beattie
Director
1 film together
Notably I, Frankenstein
Mel Gibson
Director
1 film together
Notably Hacksaw Ridge
Espen Sandberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Alien: Covenant
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantasy Island
Garth Davis
Director
1 film together
Notably Foe
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alex Proyas
Director
2 films together · 4.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Gods of EgyptMel Gibson
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hacksaw RidgeGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaBaz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great GatsbyEspen Sandberg
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No TalesRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alien: CovenantGarth Davis
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FoeJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantasy IslandStuart Beattie
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I, FrankensteinSix 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
Hacksaw Ridge
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Great Gatsby
as Head Waiter - Speakeasy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hacksaw Ridge
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
as Pirate with Broom
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hacksaw Ridge
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
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. Goran D. Kleut 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
6 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
Hacksaw Ridge
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hacksaw Ridge
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Great Gatsby
as Head Waiter - Speakeasy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fantasy Island
as Valet Milton
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as The Octoboss
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
as The Octoboss
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Great Gatsby
as Head Waiter - Speakeasy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hacksaw Ridge
as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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