Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9826
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lasco Atkins 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.
Lasco Atkins appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lasco. Bohemian Rhapsody 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 romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jon Watts, David Leitch, Bryan Singer and others, Lasco Atkins 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.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) as NYC Meat Packer (uncredited) · Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) as Salvation Army guest (uncredited) · The Holiday (2006) as Embankment Pedestrian (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #9826 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2006–2023
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Bohemian Rhapsody
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Bohemian Rhapsody
Most frequent director
Jon Watts
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jon Watts
Most common genre
Comedy
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.5
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Spider-Man: Far From Home, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Bohemian Rhapsody — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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 Could Never Be Your Woman, The Holiday.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 6.11 film | 8.11 film | 6.51 film |
| Action | — | 7.04 films | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 6.53 films | 6.51 film |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Romance | 6.72 films | — | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006The Holiday
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Embankment Pedestrian (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
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
The current state of the argument, as Pedestrian (uncredited).
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.
10 of 10 films
as NYC Meat Packer (uncredited)
Directed by Bryan Singer
as Salvation Army guest (uncredited)
Directed by Jon Watts
as Embankment Pedestrian (uncredited)
Directed by Nancy Meyers
as Construction Worker (uncredited)
Directed by David Leitch
as Soundman (uncredited)
Directed by Martin Campbell
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
NYC Meat Packer (uncredited)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. NYC Meat Packer (uncredited) gives Lasco Atkins a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Salvation Army guest (uncredited)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Performance score7.5
Spider-Man: Far From Home asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Salvation Army guest (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Embankment Pedestrian (uncredited)
The Holiday (2006)
Performance score7.1
The Holiday asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Embankment Pedestrian (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Construction Worker (uncredited)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Performance score6.9
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Construction Worker (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 NYC Meat Packer (uncredited)
Start here. Bohemian Rhapsody is the clearest statement of what Lasco Atkins does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lasco 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 Holiday (2006)
A deliberate change of key after Bohemian Rhapsody — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Foreigner (2017)
A deliberate change of key after The Holiday — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Keeps the action register of The Foreigner but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Far From Home but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Nancy Meyers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Holiday
Amy Heckerling
Director
1 film together
Notably I Could Never Be Your Woman
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Shadows
Terry Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Anything
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably Jason Bourne
Martin Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Foreigner
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Bohemian Rhapsody
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Far From Home
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bohemian RhapsodyJon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: Far From HomeNancy Meyers
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 HolidayDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawMartin 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 ForeignerPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jason BourneTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark ShadowsTerry Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely AnythingAmy Heckerling
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Could Never Be Your WomanSix 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
Bohemian Rhapsody
as NYC Meat Packer (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
Bohemian Rhapsody
as NYC Meat Packer (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
Bohemian Rhapsody
as NYC Meat Packer (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Foreigner
as Soundman (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bohemian Rhapsody
as NYC Meat Packer (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. Lasco Atkins 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
6 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
Bohemian Rhapsody
as NYC Meat Packer (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Foreigner
as Soundman (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bohemian Rhapsody
as NYC Meat Packer (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Foreigner
as Soundman (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man: Far From Home
as Salvation Army guest (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jason Bourne
as Conference Attendee (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Magic Mike's Last Dance
as Pedestrian (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Far From Home
as Salvation Army guest (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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