Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3654
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Kevin Hudson 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.
Kevin Hudson appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kevin. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dominic Brigstocke, Mike Newell, Ron Howard and others, Kevin Hudson 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.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Irish Fan (uncredited) · A Street Cat Named Bob (2016) as H, The Covent Guardian (uncredited) · The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) as German Soldier (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3654 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1999–2019
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
A Street Cat Named Bob
Most frequent director
Mike Newell
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Mike Newell
Most common genre
Adventure
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.5
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
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Sleepy Hollow — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.2
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. Sleepy Hollow.
Most productive era
2010s
13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.11 film | 6.75 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.65 films |
| Thriller | 7.31 film | 7.01 film | 6.82 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.64 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | 7.11 film | 7.41 film |
| Horror | 7.31 film | 7.01 film | 5.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Sleepy Hollow
Where our catalogue meets this career, as New Yorker (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8.1 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
2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
The current state of the argument, as Senator.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
Directed by Mike Newell
as H, The Covent Guardian (uncredited)
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Directed by Mike Newell
as New Yorker (uncredited)
Directed by Tim Burton
as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Directed by Patty Jenkins
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
Irish Fan (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Irish Fan (uncredited) gives Kevin Hudson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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H, The Covent Guardian (uncredited)
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Performance score7.4
A Street Cat Named Bob asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. H, The Covent Guardian (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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German Soldier (uncredited)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Performance score7.2
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. German Soldier (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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New Yorker (uncredited)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Performance score7.2
Sleepy Hollow asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. New Yorker (uncredited) 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 Irish Fan (uncredited)
Start here. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the clearest statement of what Kevin Hudson does — accessible, 157 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kevin 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.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Keeps the fantasy register of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Sleepy Hollow — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Wonder Woman (2017)
A deliberate change of key after A Street Cat Named Bob — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Wonder Woman — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mike Newell
Director
2 films together
Notably Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Sleepy Hollow
Chris Weitz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Golden Compass
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Sunshine
Roger Michell
Director
1 film together
Notably Hyde Park on Hudson
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gambit
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack the Giant Slayer
Mark Waters
Director
1 film together
Notably Vampire Academy
Rowan Joffé
Director
1 film together
Notably Before I Go to Sleep
Sarah Gavron
Director
1 film together
Notably Suffragette
Roger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together
Notably A Street Cat Named Bob
Martin Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Foreigner
Patty Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman
Lenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Little Stranger
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo: A Star Wars Story
Dominic Brigstocke
Director
1 film together
Notably Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mike Newell
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireRoger Spottiswoode
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Street Cat Named BobTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sleepy HollowPatty Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder WomanSarah Gavron
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SuffragetteMartin Campbell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ForeignerDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SunshineRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo: A Star Wars StoryRowan Joffé
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Before I Go to SleepMark Waters
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vampire AcademyChris Weitz
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Golden CompassBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack the Giant SlayerLenny Abrahamson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Little StrangerMichael 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
GambitRoger Michell
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hyde Park on HudsonDominic Brigstocke
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten RomansSix 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
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
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 Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Wonder Woman
as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
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. Kevin Hudson 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
20 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sleepy Hollow
as New Yorker (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as German Soldier (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Sleepy Hollow
as New Yorker (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Mimban trooper (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Hyde Park on Hudson
as Reporter (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Irish Fan (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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