Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2635
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Lewis Pullman 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.
Lewis Pullman appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lewis. Top Gun: Maverick is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, science fiction, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Josh Greenbaum, Olivia Newman, Anthony Russo and others, Lewis Pullman 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.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd · Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) as Cameron Cassmore · Thunderbolts* (2025) as Robert Reynolds
Career snapshot
Ranked #2635 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2017–2027
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Top Gun: Maverick
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Most frequent director
Josh Greenbaum
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Josh Greenbaum
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
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
6.1
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
6.2 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Lefty/Righty, Them That Follow, The Strangers: Prey at Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.2
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Lefty/Righty, Them That Follow, The Strangers: Prey at Night.
Most productive era
2020s
15 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.55 films | 6.69 films |
| Action | — | 7.43 films |
| Thriller | 5.84 films | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 3.55 films |
| Crime | 6.81 film | 5.81 film |
| Romance | — | 3.32 films |
| Horror | 5.71 film | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Larry Riggs.
Highest rated performance
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2026Remarkably Bright Creatures
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 Starburst.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Cameron Cassmore
Directed by Olivia Newman
as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
as Robert Reynolds
Directed by Jake Schreier
as Righty
Directed by Unknown
as Miles Miller
Directed by Drew Goddard
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
Cameron Cassmore
Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Cameron Cassmore gives Lewis Pullman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Performance score8.0
Top Gun: Maverick asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Robert Reynolds
Thunderbolts* (2025)
Performance score7.5
Thunderbolts* asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Robert Reynolds is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Righty
Lefty/Righty (2019)
Performance score7.2
Lefty/Righty asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Righty 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 Cameron Cassmore
Start here. Remarkably Bright Creatures is the clearest statement of what Lewis Pullman does — accessible, 114 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lewis 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.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Keeps the mystery register of Remarkably Bright Creatures but asks for a colder reading of it.
Lefty/Righty (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Bad Times at the El Royale but asks for a colder reading of it.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Lefty/Righty but asks for a colder reading of it.
Thunderbolts* (2025)
Keeps the action register of Top Gun: Maverick but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Elliott Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably Aftermath
Jonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together
Notably Battle of the Sexes
Andrew Haigh
Director
1 film together
Notably Lean on Pete
Drew Goddard
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Times at the El Royale
Kelly Oxford
Director
1 film together
Notably Pink Skies Ahead
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together
Notably Top Gun: Maverick
William Friedkin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Laurel Parmet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Starling Girl
Austin Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Skincare
Gary Dauberman
Director
1 film together
Notably Salem's Lot
Mona Fastvold
Director
1 film together
Notably The Testament of Ann Lee
Jake Schreier
Director
1 film together
Notably Thunderbolts*
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Doomsday
Olivia Newman
Director
1 film together
Notably Remarkably Bright Creatures
Josh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Spaceballs: The New One
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joseph Kosinski
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Top Gun: MaverickOlivia Newman
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remarkably Bright CreaturesJake Schreier
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thunderbolts*Andrew Haigh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lean on PeteDrew Goddard
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad Times at the El RoyaleJonathan Dayton
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Battle of the SexesWilliam Friedkin
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Caine Mutiny Court-MartialAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: DoomsdayMona Fastvold
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 Testament of Ann LeeLaurel Parmet
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 Starling GirlGary Dauberman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Salem's LotAustin Peters
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SkincareKelly Oxford
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pink Skies AheadElliott Lester
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AftermathJosh Greenbaum
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spaceballs: The New OneSix 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
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
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 Testament of Ann Lee
as William Lee
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Avengers: Doomsday
as Robert Reynolds
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Cameron Cassmore
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. Lewis Pullman 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 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
Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Cameron Cassmore
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Testament of Ann Lee
as William Lee
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Bad Times at the El Royale
as Miles Miller
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Top Gun: Maverick
as Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Thunderbolts*
as Robert Reynolds
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Battle of the Sexes
as Larry Riggs
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as Robert Reynolds
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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