Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Greg Lewis appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Greg. The Princess Diaries 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 comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Hill, Garry Marshall, Paul Michael Glaser and others, Greg Lewis 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 Princess Diaries (2001) as Siegfried von Troken · The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) as Baron Siegfried von Troken · Frankie and Johnny (1991) as Tino
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Greg Lewis.
Films in Nutevio
6
1976–2011
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
The Princess Diaries
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
The Princess Diaries
Most frequent director
Garry Marshall
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Garry Marshall
Most common genre
Comedy
4 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
6.7
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, The Princess Diaries — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Logan's Run.
Most productive era
2000s
2 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 | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 6.71 film | 6.81 film | — |
| Action | 6.61 film | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.71 film | 6.92 films | 6.11 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.71 film | 6.92 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1976Logan's Run
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cub.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
2011Hop
The current state of the argument, as Performer.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Siegfried von Troken
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Baron Siegfried von Troken
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Tino
Directed by Garry Marshall
as Manager Locker Room
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
as Cub
Directed by Michael Anderson
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
Siegfried von Troken
The Princess Diaries (2001)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Siegfried von Troken gives Greg Lewis a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Baron Siegfried von Troken
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Performance score6.7
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Baron Siegfried von Troken is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tino
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Performance score6.6
Frankie and Johnny asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tino is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Manager Locker Room
The Running Man (1987)
Performance score6.6
The Running Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Manager Locker Room 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 Siegfried von Troken
Start here. The Princess Diaries is the clearest statement of what Greg Lewis does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Greg 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.
Logan's Run (1976)
A deliberate change of key after The Princess Diaries — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Running Man (1987)
Keeps the action register of Logan's Run but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
A deliberate change of key after The Running Man — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
Same director as Frankie and Johnny, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Garry Marshall
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Princess DiariesPaul Michael Glaser
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Running ManMichael Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Logan's RunTim Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HopSix 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
The Princess Diaries
as Siegfried von Troken
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 Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Baron Siegfried von Troken
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 Princess Diaries
as Siegfried von Troken
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Running Man
as Manager Locker Room
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Princess Diaries
as Siegfried von Troken
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. Greg Lewis 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
35 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 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
The Princess Diaries
as Siegfried von Troken
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Running Man
as Manager Locker Room
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Baron Siegfried von Troken
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Princess Diaries
as Siegfried von Troken
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Running Man
as Manager Locker Room
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Running Man
as Manager Locker Room
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
as Baron Siegfried von Troken
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hop
as Performer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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