Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7279
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Keith Dallas represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Keith is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Keith Dallas appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Keith. A Nice Indian Boy is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 romance, comedy, documentary. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Roshan Sethi, Jonathan A. Rosenbaum, Brad Bird and others, Keith Dallas 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.
A Nice Indian Boy (2025) as Head Nurse · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) as Julia's Friend · The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) as Cab Driver
Career snapshot
Ranked #7279 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2000–2025
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
A Nice Indian Boy
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
A Nice Indian Boy
Most frequent director
Roshan Sethi
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Roshan Sethi
Most common genre
Comedy
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. A Nice Indian Boy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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. Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief, Snakes on a Plane, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Action | 5.73 films | 6.22 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.73 films | 7.11 film | — |
| Comedy | 5.73 films | 5.24 films | 7.21 film |
| Crime | 5.92 films | — | — |
| Romance | 6.51 film | — | 7.21 film |
| Horror | 5.51 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Romeo Must Die
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bouncer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
7.2 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 Head Nurse.
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 Julia's Friend
Directed by Brad Bird
as Coit Tower Guard
Directed by Brad Peyton
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
Head Nurse
A Nice Indian Boy (2025)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Head Nurse gives Keith Dallas a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Julia's Friend
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Performance score7.0
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julia's Friend is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
Performance score6.5
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Umpire
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls (2019)
Performance score6.5
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Umpire 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 Head Nurse
Start here. A Nice Indian Boy is the clearest statement of what Keith Dallas does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Keith 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.
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of A Nice Indian Boy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Keeps the action register of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of The Amazing Johnathan Documentary but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together
Notably Romeo Must Die
Betty Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably I Spy
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
David R. Ellis
Director
1 film together
Notably Snakes on a Plane
Craig Shapiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Brad Peyton
Director
1 film together
Notably Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Jonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls
Roshan Sethi
Director
1 film together
Notably A Nice Indian Boy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roshan Sethi
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Nice Indian BoyBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - Ghost ProtocolKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsAndrzej Bartkowiak
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romeo Must DieChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefDavid R. Ellis
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snakes on a PlaneBetty Thomas
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I SpyCraig Shapiro
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the ChiefBrad Peyton
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty GaloreJonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking BallsSix 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
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Julia's Friend
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 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
as Cab Driver
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Julia's Friend
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Parthenon Janitor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Nice Indian Boy
as Head Nurse
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. Keith Dallas 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
25 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
8 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
A Nice Indian Boy
as Head Nurse
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Julia's Friend
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
as Cab Driver
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
as Parthenon Janitor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Julia's Friend
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
as Julia's Friend
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
as Cab Driver
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
as Self
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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