Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11136
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Grant Crookes 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.
Grant Crookes appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Grant. Wonka is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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 mystery, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Thea Sharrock, Anand Tucker, Chris Foggin and others, Grant Crookes 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.
Wonka (2023) as Mourner (uncredited) · Official Secrets (2019) as GCHQ Security · Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) as Paramedic (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #11136 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2017–2024
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Wonka
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Official Secrets
Most frequent director
Thea Sharrock
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Thea Sharrock
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Official Secrets, Mary Queen of Scots, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Official Secrets, Mary Queen of Scots, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | 6.82 films | 6.510 films |
| Action | 7.11 film | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | 7.11 film | 6.12 films |
| Comedy | 7.11 film | 6.78 films |
| Crime | 7.11 film | 6.11 film |
| Romance | — | 6.71 film |
| Horror | 6.01 film | 6.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Paramedic (uncredited). 7.1 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
2024The Critic
The current state of the argument, as Critic (uncredited).
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.
21 of 21 films
as GCHQ Security
Directed by Gavin Hood
as Paramedic (uncredited)
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Directed by David Yates
as Driver (uncredited)
Directed by Tim Story
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
Mourner (uncredited)
Wonka (2023)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mourner (uncredited) gives Grant Crookes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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GCHQ Security
Official Secrets (2019)
Performance score7.0
Official Secrets asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. GCHQ Security is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paramedic (uncredited)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Performance score7.0
Kingsman: The Golden Circle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paramedic (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Performance score6.9
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cafe Owner (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 Mourner (uncredited)
Start here. Wonka is the clearest statement of what Grant Crookes does — accessible, 117 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Grant 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.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Wonka but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of Kingsman: The Golden Circle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Official Secrets (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Tom & Jerry (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Official Secrets — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Lenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Little Stranger
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Peter Rabbit
David Yates
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Official Secrets
David Dobkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Mike Rohl
Director
1 film together
Notably The Princess Switch: Switched Again
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Midnight Sky
Magnus Martens
Director
1 film together
Notably SAS: Red Notice
Euros Lyn
Director
1 film together
Notably Dream Horse
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Tom & Jerry
Oliver Hermanus
Director
1 film together
Notably Living
Paul King
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonka
Chris Foggin
Director
1 film together
Notably Bank of Dave
Anand Tucker
Director
1 film together
Notably The Critic
Thea Sharrock
Director
1 film together
Notably Wicked Little Letters
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul King
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WonkaGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Official SecretsMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kingsman: The Golden CircleDavid Yates
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of GrindelwaldTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tom & JerryThea Sharrock
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wicked Little LettersOliver Hermanus
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LivingEuros Lyn
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dream HorseMike Rohl
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Princess Switch: Switched AgainWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peter RabbitChris Foggin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bank of DaveDavid Dobkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire SagaAnand Tucker
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CriticMagnus Martens
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SAS: Red NoticeLenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Little StrangerGeorge 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
The Midnight SkySix 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
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
as Cafe Owner (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
Official Secrets
as GCHQ Security
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Paramedic (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Wonka
as Mourner (uncredited)
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. Grant Crookes 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
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Paramedic (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Official Secrets
as GCHQ Security
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Critic
as Critic (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Paramedic (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Paramedic (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mary Queen of Scots
as Bothwell
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Little Stranger
as Pallbearer (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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