Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12,330
of 15,890 eligible performers
Kyle Gatehouse 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.
Kyle Gatehouse appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Kyle. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 horror, fantasy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Guillermo del Toro, Roland Emmerich, Patrick Hughes and others, Kyle Gatehouse 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.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as Pentagon Cook · Frankenstein (2025) as Young Hunter · Source Code (2011) as College Student
Career snapshot
Ranked #12,330 of 15,890 eligible performers in the Nutevio catalogue.
Films in Nutevio
13
2007–2025
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Frankenstein
Most frequent director
Roland Emmerich
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Roland Emmerich
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
6.4
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. Frankenstein, Moonfall, The Man from Toronto — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. I'm Not There.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 6.25 films | 7.61 film |
| Action | — | 7.22 films | 6.42 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.45 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | 6.41 film |
| Crime | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Horror | — | 5.81 film | 7.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007I'm Not There
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hotel Waiter.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014X-Men: Days of Future Past
7.8 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
2025Frankenstein
The current state of the argument, as Young Hunter.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Pentagon Cook
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Young Hunter
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as College Student
Directed by Duncan Jones
as Student Butte Museum
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
as Conrad
Directed by Roland Emmerich
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Pentagon Cook
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pentagon Cook gives Kyle Gatehouse a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Young Hunter
Frankenstein (2025)
Performance score7.4
Frankenstein asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Young Hunter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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College Student
Source Code (2011)
Performance score7.2
Source Code asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. College Student is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Student Butte Museum
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Performance score6.7
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Student Butte Museum 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 Pentagon Cook
Start here. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the clearest statement of what Kyle Gatehouse does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Kyle 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.
Source Code (2011)
Keeps the science fiction register of X-Men: Days of Future Past but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Source Code — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
White House Down (2013)
Keeps the drama register of The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frankenstein (2025)
Keeps the drama register of White House Down but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together
Notably White House Down
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Not There
Duncan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Source Code
Walter Salles
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Road
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine Lives
Jay Baruchel
Director
1 film together
Notably Random Acts of Violence
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man from Toronto
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Frankenstein
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Roland Emmerich
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
White House DownBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastGuillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrankensteinDuncan Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Source CodeJean-Pierre Jeunet
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 Young and Prodigious T.S. SpivetTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Not TherePatrick Hughes
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 Man from TorontoBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nine LivesWalter Salles
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the RoadJay Baruchel
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Random Acts of ViolenceSix 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
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Pentagon Cook
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
I'm Not There
as Hotel Waiter
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Pentagon Cook
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I'm Not There
as Hotel Waiter
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Pentagon Cook
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. Kyle Gatehouse 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
7 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
Source Code
as College Student
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Source Code
as College Student
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
I'm Not There
as Hotel Waiter
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Source Code
as College Student
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Pentagon Cook
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as Pentagon Cook
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
I'm Not There
as Hotel Waiter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Random Acts of Violence
as Fan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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