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.
Guillaume Gallienne appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Guillaume. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Celyn Jones, Bertrand Usclat, Alexandre Astier and others, Guillaume Gallienne 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) as Mr. B · Marie Antoinette (2006) as Vergennes · Comédie-Française (2026) as Stéphane, le gardien
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Guillaume Gallienne.
Films in Nutevio
13
1995–2026
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Most frequent director
Alexandre Astier
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Alexandre Astier
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
1990s
6.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Sabrina — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Sabrina.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.31 film | 6.71 film | — | 4.94 films |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | 5.81 film | 5.71 film | 6.56 films |
| Crime | — | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | 6.31 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Sabrina
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Assistant.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
7.0 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 Stéphane, le gardien.
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.
13 of 13 films
Directed by Unknown
as Alzagar
Directed by Alexandre Astier
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
Yann Kerbec
Bazaar (Murder in the Building) (2026)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Yann Kerbec gives Guillaume Gallienne a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mr. B
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
Performance score6.9
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. B is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Stéphane, le gardien
Comédie-Française (2026)
Performance score6.6
Comédie-Française asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stéphane, le gardien is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Performance score6.6
Belmondo: The Incorrigible 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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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Yann Kerbec
Start here. Bazaar (Murder in the Building) is the clearest statement of what Guillaume Gallienne does — accessible, 106 minutes, and rated 6.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Guillaume 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Bazaar (Murder in the Building) but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kaamelott: The First Chapter (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun but asks for a colder reading of it.
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Kaamelott: The First Chapter — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Comédie-Française (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Belmondo: The Incorrigible — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alexandre Astier
Director
2 films together
Notably Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably Sabrina
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Marie Antoinette
Jalil Lespert
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fool
Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Bertrand Usclat
Director
1 film together
Notably Comédie-Française
Celyn Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Madfabulous
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alexandre Astier
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Kaamelott: The First ChapterWes Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marie AntoinetteBertrand Usclat
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Comédie-FrançaiseCelyn Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MadfabulousSydney Pollack
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SabrinaJalil Lespert
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FoolSix 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Mr. B
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Marie Antoinette
as Vergennes
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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Mr. B
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bazaar (Murder in the Building)
as Yann Kerbec
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. Guillaume Gallienne 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
31 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 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 French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Mr. B
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Mr. B
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Marie Antoinette
as Vergennes
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
as Alzagar
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Mr. B
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fan-Fan the Tulip
as La Houlette
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bazaar (Murder in the Building)
as Yann Kerbec
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Fool
as Édouard Pontagnac
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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