Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5354
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Judd Lormand 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.
Judd Lormand appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Judd. Big George Foreman is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tyler Perry, Akiva Schaffer, Rachel Feldman and others, Judd Lormand 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.
Big George Foreman (2023) as Dr. West · The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Hovercraft Peacekeeper · The Hunger Games (2012) as Peacekeeper #3
Career snapshot
Ranked #5354 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2012–2025
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Big George Foreman
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Big George Foreman
Most frequent director
Tyler Perry
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tyler Perry
Most common genre
Drama
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.2
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
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Tyler Perry's Duplicity, The Naked Gun, Lilly — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
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. Naked, Geostorm, LBJ.
Most productive era
2010s
16 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 | 6.28 films | 6.84 films |
| Action | 6.06 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.18 films | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | 5.92 films | 6.41 film |
| Crime | 6.34 films | 6.41 film |
| Horror | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012The Hunger Games
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Peacekeeper #3.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.6 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
2025Lilly
The current state of the argument, as Trevor Dawkins.
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 Hovercraft Peacekeeper
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Peacekeeper #3
Directed by Gary Ross
as Trevor Dawkins
Directed by Rachel Feldman
as Mr. Hester
Directed by Ramin Bahrani
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
Dr. West
Big George Foreman (2023)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. West gives Judd Lormand a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hovercraft Peacekeeper
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hovercraft Peacekeeper is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Peacekeeper #3
The Hunger Games (2012)
Performance score7.1
The Hunger Games asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peacekeeper #3 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Trevor Dawkins
Lilly (2025)
Performance score6.7
Lilly asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trevor Dawkins 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 Dr. West
Start here. Big George Foreman is the clearest statement of what Judd Lormand does — accessible, 129 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Judd 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 Hunger Games (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Big George Foreman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Keeps the action register of The Hunger Games but asks for a colder reading of it.
99 Homes (2015)
A deliberate change of key after The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Lilly (2025)
Keeps the drama register of 99 Homes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games
Allen Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Broken City
Eric Heisserer
Director
1 film together
Notably Hours
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Devil's Knot
Peter Segal
Director
1 film together
Notably Grudge Match
Sarik Andreasyan
Director
1 film together
Notably American Heist
Vic Armstrong
Director
1 film together
Notably Left Behind
Daniel Stamm
Director
1 film together
Notably 13 Sins
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably When the Game Stands Tall
Ramin Bahrani
Director
1 film together
Notably 99 Homes
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably LBJ
Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Geostorm
Michael Tiddes
Director
1 film together
Notably Naked
George Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Big George Foreman
Rachel Feldman
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilly
Akiva Schaffer
Director
1 film together
Notably The Naked Gun
Tyler Perry
Director
1 film together
Notably Tyler Perry's Duplicity
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Tillman Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big George ForemanFrancis Lawrence
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 Hunger Games: Catching FireGary Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunger GamesRachel Feldman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LillyRamin Bahrani
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
99 HomesThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
When the Game Stands TallTyler Perry
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tyler Perry's DuplicityEric Heisserer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoursAkiva Schaffer
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 Naked GunRob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LBJDaniel Stamm
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
13 SinsAtom Egoyan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Devil's KnotDean Devlin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GeostormPeter Segal
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grudge MatchEdward 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 BackAllen Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Broken CityMichael Tiddes
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NakedSarik Andreasyan
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American HeistVic Armstrong
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Left BehindSix 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
Big George Foreman
as Dr. West
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Big George Foreman
as Dr. West
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Big George Foreman
as Dr. West
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
When the Game Stands Tall
as Announcer #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Big George Foreman
as Dr. West
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. Judd Lormand 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
Big George Foreman
as Dr. West
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hunger Games
as Peacekeeper #3
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
LBJ
as Robert McNamara
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Vanished: Searching for My Sister
as Roger
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Hovercraft Peacekeeper
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Hovercraft Peacekeeper
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Lilly
as Trevor Dawkins
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Vanished: Searching for My Sister
as Roger
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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