Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#901
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Leo Bill represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Leo is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Leo Bill appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Leo. Cruella 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Craig Gillespie, Billie Piper, James Bobin and others, Leo Bill 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.
Cruella (2021) as Headmaster · Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) as Pilot · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) as Trinity
Career snapshot
Ranked #901 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Cruella
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Cruella
Most frequent director
Craig Gillespie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Craig Gillespie
Most common genre
Drama
9 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
7.0
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
6.7
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Me and Orson Welles, Becoming Jane, 28 Days Later — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
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
2000s
6.9
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. Me and Orson Welles, Becoming Jane, 28 Days Later.
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 | 6.83 films | 6.93 films | 6.73 films |
| Action | — | — | 7.01 film |
| Thriller | 7.02 films | 7.41 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.41 film | 6.21 film | 6.82 films |
| Crime | — | 7.41 film | 8.11 film |
| Romance | 7.31 film | — | 5.51 film |
| Horror | 7.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Gosford Park
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jim.
Career peak
2010Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2021Cruella
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Supergirl
The current state of the argument, as Big Furry Gremlin.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Headmaster
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Trinity
Directed by David Fincher
as John Warren
Directed by Julian Jarrold
as Private Jones
Directed by Danny Boyle
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
Headmaster
Cruella (2021)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Headmaster gives Leo Bill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Pilot
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Performance score7.8
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pilot is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Trinity
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Performance score7.2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trinity is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John Warren
Becoming Jane (2007)
Performance score7.2
Becoming Jane asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Warren 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 Headmaster
Start here. Cruella is the clearest statement of what Leo Bill does — accessible, 134 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Leo 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.
28 Days Later (2002)
A deliberate change of key after Cruella — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Becoming Jane (2007)
A deliberate change of key after 28 Days Later — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Becoming Jane but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together
Notably Cruella
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gosford Park
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably 28 Days Later
Julian Jarrold
Director
1 film together
Notably Becoming Jane
Richard Linklater
Director
1 film together
Notably Me and Orson Welles
Toby Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice in Wonderland
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Alice Through the Looking Glass
Billie Piper
Director
1 film together
Notably Rare Beasts
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
CruellaToby Haynes
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor Who: A Christmas CarolDavid Fincher
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Girl with the Dragon TattooJulian Jarrold
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Becoming JaneDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
28 Days LaterRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gosford ParkJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice Through the Looking GlassTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Alice in WonderlandRichard Linklater
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Me and Orson WellesBillie Piper
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rare BeastsSix 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
Cruella
as Headmaster
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Becoming Jane
as John Warren
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Cruella
as Headmaster
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Trinity
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Cruella
as Headmaster
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. Leo Bill 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 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
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Trinity
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Trinity
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Becoming Jane
as John Warren
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Trinity
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Supergirl
as Big Furry Gremlin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Supergirl
as Big Furry Gremlin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Me and Orson Welles
as Norman Lloyd
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Supergirl
as Big Furry Gremlin
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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