Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9413
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Julian Rhind-Tutt represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Julian is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Julian Rhind-Tutt appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Julian. Rush 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 war, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ridley Scott, Luc Besson, Ron Howard and others, Julian Rhind-Tutt 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.
Rush (2013) as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley · Stardust (2007) as Quartus · Notting Hill (1999) as 'Time Out' Journalist
Career snapshot
Ranked #9413 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1994–2023
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Rush
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Rush
Most frequent director
Ridley Scott
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ridley Scott
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.6
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
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Notting Hill, Les Misérables, Tomorrow Never Dies — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.9
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. Notting Hill, Les Misérables, Tomorrow Never Dies.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 6.92 films | — | 7.12 films | 6.31 film |
| Action | 6.41 film | 5.91 film | 6.53 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 7.02 films | — | 5.73 films | — |
| Crime | 7.01 film | — | 5.51 film | — |
| Romance | 7.22 films | 7.31 film | 5.82 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994The Madness of King George
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Duke of York.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Rush
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.
Most recent film
2023Napoleon
The current state of the argument, as Sieyes.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
Directed by Ron Howard
as Quartus
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
as 'Time Out' Journalist
Directed by Roger Michell
as Bamatabois
Directed by Bille August
as The Limey
Directed by Luc Besson
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
Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
Rush (2013)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley gives Julian Rhind-Tutt a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Quartus
Stardust (2007)
Performance score7.2
Stardust asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Quartus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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'Time Out' Journalist
Notting Hill (1999)
Performance score7.2
Notting Hill asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 'Time Out' Journalist is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bamatabois
Les Misérables (1998)
Performance score6.9
Les Misérables asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bamatabois 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 Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
Start here. Rush is the clearest statement of what Julian Rhind-Tutt does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Julian 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.
Les Misérables (1998)
Keeps the drama register of Rush but asks for a colder reading of it.
Notting Hill (1999)
Keeps the romance register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
Stardust (2007)
Keeps the romance register of Notting Hill but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lucy (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Stardust — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Madness of King George
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrow Never Dies
Bille August
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Notting Hill
Simon West
Director
1 film together
Notably Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Stardust
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Your Highness
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gambit
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Rush
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucy
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Napoleon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RushMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StardustRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Notting HillBille August
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesNicholas Hytner
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Madness of King GeorgeLuc Besson
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LucyRoger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tomorrow Never DiesRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NapoleonSimon West
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lara Croft: Tomb RaiderMichael Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GambitDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Your HighnessSix 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
Rush
as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Stardust
as Quartus
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rush
as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Devonshire Yeoman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rush
as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
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. Julian Rhind-Tutt 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
29 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
5 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
Stardust
as Quartus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rush
as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Stardust
as Quartus
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Stardust
as Quartus
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rush
as Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Devonshire Yeoman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Madness of King George
as Duke of York
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Notting Hill
as 'Time Out' Journalist
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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