Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12805
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Hunter Burke 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.
Hunter Burke appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Hunter. The Best of Me is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Randall, Regina King, Tori Garrett and others, Hunter Burke 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 Best of Me (2014) as Abee · The Big Short (2015) as Analyst · You Can't Take My Daughter (2020) as Demetri
Career snapshot
Ranked #12805 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2009–2021
Career length
12 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Best of Me
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Best of Me
Most frequent director
Adam Randall
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Adam Randall
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Night Teeth, One Night in Miami..., You Can't Take My Daughter — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. 12 Rounds.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.47 films | 7.22 films |
| Action | 5.91 film | 5.84 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | 6.26 films | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.72 films | — |
| Crime | 5.91 film | 6.72 films | — |
| Romance | — | 7.51 film | — |
| Horror | — | 5.81 film | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
200912 Rounds
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hot Tub Man / Hotel Employee.
Highest rated performance
2014The Best of Me
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2020You Can't Take My Daughter
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2021Night Teeth
The current state of the argument, as Daniel.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Abee
Directed by Michael Hoffman
as Analyst
Directed by Adam McKay
as Sazerac Bartender
Directed by Louis Leterrier
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
Demetri
You Can't Take My Daughter (2020)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Demetri gives Hunter Burke a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Abee
The Best of Me (2014)
Performance score7.3
The Best of Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Abee is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Analyst
The Big Short (2015)
Performance score7.2
The Big Short asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Analyst is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sazerac Bartender
Now You See Me (2013)
Performance score7.2
Now You See Me asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sazerac Bartender 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 Demetri
Start here. You Can't Take My Daughter is the clearest statement of what Hunter Burke does — accessible, 86 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Hunter 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.
Now You See Me (2013)
A deliberate change of key after You Can't Take My Daughter — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Best of Me (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Now You See Me — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Big Short (2015)
Keeps the drama register of The Best of Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Night in Miami... (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Big Short but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Rounds
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Olympus Has Fallen
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Now You See Me
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Best of Me
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Million Dollar Arm
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Insurgent
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Mississippi Grind
Adam McKay
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Short
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Circle
Tori Garrett
Director
1 film together
Notably You Can't Take My Daughter
Regina King
Director
1 film together
Notably One Night in Miami...
Adam Randall
Director
1 film together
Notably Night Teeth
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Best of MeAdam McKay
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 Big ShortTori Garrett
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Can't Take My DaughterLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Now You See MeRegina King
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Night in Miami...Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Million Dollar ArmAdam Randall
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Night TeethRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
InsurgentAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Olympus Has FallenEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack Reacher: Never Go BackRyan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mississippi GrindRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 RoundsJames Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CircleSix 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 Big Short
as Analyst
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 Best of Me
as Abee
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 Best of Me
as Abee
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Insurgent
as Erudite Administrator
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
You Can't Take My Daughter
as Demetri
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. Hunter Burke 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
9 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
The Best of Me
as Abee
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Now You See Me
as Sazerac Bartender
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Best of Me
as Abee
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Now You See Me
as Sazerac Bartender
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Best of Me
as Abee
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Fantastic Four
as Reed's Scientist (Area 57)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Best of Me
as Abee
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
You Can't Take My Daughter
as Demetri
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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