Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7393
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Joshua Peace represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Joshua is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Joshua Peace appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Joshua. Youngblood is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 drama, horror, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with M. Night Shyamalan, Neil Burger, Sam Raimi and others, Joshua Peace 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.
Youngblood (2026) as Dougie · Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as NY Passerby 616 · Pacific Rim (2013) as Officer
Career snapshot
Ranked #7393 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Youngblood
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Youngblood
Most frequent director
M. Night Shyamalan
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With M. Night Shyamalan
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Grey Gardens, Lars and the Real Girl — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.0
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. The Big Hit.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | — | 7.02 films | — | 7.32 films |
| Action | 6.01 film | — | 7.02 films | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | — | 6.71 film | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | 6.01 film | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Crime | 6.01 film | — | 6.71 film | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | 7.21 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998The Big Hit
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lance.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Youngblood
7.7 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. The current state of the argument, as Dougie.
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.
10 of 10 films
as NY Passerby 616
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Officer
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Police Sergeant
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Dougie
Youngblood (2026)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dougie gives Joshua Peace a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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NY Passerby 616
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Performance score7.2
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. NY Passerby 616 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Officer
Pacific Rim (2013)
Performance score7.1
Pacific Rim asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jerry
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Performance score7.1
Lars and the Real Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jerry 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 Dougie
Start here. Youngblood is the clearest statement of what Joshua Peace does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Joshua 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.
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Youngblood but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pacific Rim (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Lars and the Real Girl — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Keeps the action register of Pacific Rim but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Boy in the Woods (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Sucsy
Director
1 film together
Notably Grey Gardens
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably RED
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Pacific Rim
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Marsh King's Daughter
M. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together
Notably Trap
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Raimi
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of MadnessGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pacific RimCraig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lars and the Real GirlMichael Sucsy
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grey GardensRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
REDNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Marsh King's DaughterM. Night Shyamalan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TrapSix 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
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as NY Passerby 616
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lars and the Real Girl
as Jerry
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Youngblood
as Dougie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Trap
as Suspicious SWAT Member
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Youngblood
as Dougie
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. Joshua Peace 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
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
4 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
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as NY Passerby 616
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
RED
as Interrogation Surveillance Tech
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lars and the Real Girl
as Jerry
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Marsh King's Daughter
as ATV Driver
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as NY Passerby 616
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as NY Passerby 616
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Boy in the Woods
as Police Sergeant
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pacific Rim
as Officer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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