Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#28481
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Gosha Kutsenko 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.
Gosha Kutsenko appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gosha. Red Silk is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anna Kuznetsova, Rustam Mosafir, Andrey Volgin and others, Gosha Kutsenko 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.
Red Silk (2025) as Fyodor Kornilov · Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything (2023) as аниматор «Иван Грозный» · Completely Stunned! (2024) as Фёдор
Career snapshot
Ranked #28481 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Red Silk
Average Nutevio score
4.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything
Most frequent director
Anna Kuznetsova
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Anna Kuznetsova
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.1
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
5.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Brave — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.1
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. The Brave.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | — | 3.24 films |
| Action | 5.11 film | 6.91 film |
| Thriller | 5.11 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 4.16 films |
| Crime | 5.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019The Brave
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kolo.
Highest rated performance
2023Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything
6.9 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
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 Wolf.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Fyodor Kornilov
Directed by Andrey Volgin
as аниматор «Иван Грозный»
Directed by Unknown
Directed by Anna Kuznetsova
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
Фёдор
Completely Stunned! (2024)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Фёдор gives Gosha Kutsenko a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fyodor Kornilov
Red Silk (2025)
Performance score7.1
Red Silk asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fyodor Kornilov is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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One Good Day
One Good Day (2025)
Performance score6.9
One Good Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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аниматор «Иван Грозный»
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything (2023)
Performance score6.8
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. аниматор «Иван Грозный» 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 Фёдор
Start here. Completely Stunned! is the clearest statement of what Gosha Kutsenko does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gosha 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.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything (2023)
Same director as Completely Stunned!, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Red Silk (2025)
Keeps the adventure register of Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Good Day (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Red Silk — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Spring Blossoms (2026)
Keeps the drama register of One Good Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dzhanik Fayziev
Director
1 film together
Notably Cosmoball
Andrey Volgin
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Silk
Rustam Mosafir
Director
1 film together
Notably King & Jester: Forever
Anna Kuznetsova
Director
1 film together
Notably Spring Blossoms
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andrey Volgin
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red SilkDzhanik Fayziev
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CosmoballRustam Mosafir
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King & Jester: ForeverAnna Kuznetsova
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spring BlossomsSix 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
Red Silk
as Fyodor Kornilov
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
King & Jester: Forever
as Psychotherapist
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Everything
as аниматор «Иван Грозный»
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Cosmoball
as red-faced guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Completely Stunned!
as Фёдор
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. Gosha Kutsenko 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
6 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
Red Silk
as Fyodor Kornilov
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Red Silk
as Fyodor Kornilov
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
King & Jester: Forever
as Psychotherapist
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Silk
as Fyodor Kornilov
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Red Silk
as Fyodor Kornilov
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Red Silk
as Fyodor Kornilov
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
King & Jester: Forever
as Psychotherapist
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spring Blossoms
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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