Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2525
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Liam Hemsworth 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.
Liam Hemsworth appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Liam. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 war, action, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Susannah Grant, Russell Crowe, Clark Duke and others, Liam Hemsworth 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.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Gale Hawthorne · Land of Bad (2024) as Kinney · The Hunger Games (2012) as Gale Hawthorne
Career snapshot
Ranked #2525 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2009–2024
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Most frequent director
Francis Lawrence
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Francis Lawrence
Most common genre
Action
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
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
6.3
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
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Triangle, Knowing — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
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. Triangle, Knowing.
Most productive era
2010s
11 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 | — | 5.94 films | 6.11 film |
| Action | — | 6.47 films | 6.52 films |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 6.55 films | 6.23 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Crime | — | — | 5.72 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Horror | 7.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Triangle
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Victor.
Highest rated performance
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2024Land of Bad
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2024Lonely Planet
The current state of the argument, as Owen Brophy.
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.
17 of 17 films
as Kinney
Directed by Unknown
as Gale Hawthorne
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Gale Hawthorne
Directed by Gary Ross
as Teddy McSwiney
Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
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
Kinney
Land of Bad (2024)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Kinney gives Liam Hemsworth a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gale Hawthorne
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Performance score7.7
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gale Hawthorne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gale Hawthorne
The Hunger Games (2012)
Performance score7.6
The Hunger Games asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gale Hawthorne is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Teddy McSwiney
The Dressmaker (2015)
Performance score7.4
The Dressmaker asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Teddy McSwiney 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 Kinney
Start here. Land of Bad is the clearest statement of what Liam Hemsworth does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Liam 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.
Triangle (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Land of Bad — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hunger Games (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Triangle — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Keeps the action register of The Hunger Games but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dressmaker (2015)
A deliberate change of key after The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Francis Lawrence
Director
3 films together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Alex Proyas
Director
1 film together
Notably Knowing
Christopher Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably Triangle
Gary Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games
Simon West
Director
1 film together
Notably The Expendables 2
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Paranoia
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dressmaker
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Independence Day: Resurgence
Kieran Darcy-Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably The Duel
Clark Duke
Director
1 film together
Notably Arkansas
Russell Crowe
Director
1 film together
Notably Poker Face
Susannah Grant
Director
1 film together
Notably Lonely Planet
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Francis Lawrence
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Catching FireGary Ross
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 Hunger GamesJocelyn Moorhouse
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 DressmakerChristopher Smith
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TriangleSimon West
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 Expendables 2Alex Proyas
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KnowingSusannah Grant
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lonely PlanetClark Duke
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArkansasRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParanoiaRussell Crowe
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Poker FaceKieran Darcy-Smith
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DuelRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Independence Day: ResurgenceSix 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
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gale Hawthorne
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Lonely Planet
as Owen Brophy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gale Hawthorne
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Knowing
as Spencer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Land of Bad
as Kinney
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. Liam Hemsworth 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in action, 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 Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gale Hawthorne
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hunger Games
as Gale Hawthorne
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Lonely Planet
as Owen Brophy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Arkansas
as Kyle
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gale Hawthorne
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Gale Hawthorne
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Dressmaker
as Teddy McSwiney
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Triangle
as Victor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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