Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13561
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Lucas Hedges 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.
Lucas Hedges appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Lucas. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 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, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eva Victor, John Ridley, Azazel Jacobs and others, Lucas Hedges 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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) as Robbie · Moonrise Kingdom (2012) as Redford · Manchester by the Sea (2016) as Patrick Chandler
Career snapshot
Ranked #13561 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2007–2025
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Most frequent director
Peter Hedges
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Peter Hedges
Most common genre
Drama
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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. Honey Boy, Boy Erased, mid90s — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Dan in Real Life.
Most productive era
2010s
12 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 | 6.61 film | 7.012 films | 6.24 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 7.53 films | 6.03 films |
| Crime | — | 7.32 films | — |
| Romance | 6.61 film | 7.42 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Dan in Real Life
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lilly's Dance Partner.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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
2025Sorry, Baby
The current state of the argument, as Gavin.
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 Jared Eamons
Directed by Joel Edgerton
as Redford
Directed by Wes Anderson
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
Robbie
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Robbie gives Lucas Hedges a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Patrick Chandler
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Performance score7.9
Manchester by the Sea asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Patrick Chandler is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ian
mid90s (2018)
Performance score7.8
mid90s asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ian is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jared Eamons
Boy Erased (2018)
Performance score7.6
Boy Erased asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jared Eamons 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 Robbie
Start here. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the clearest statement of what Lucas Hedges does — accessible, 115 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Lucas 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.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri but asks for a colder reading of it.
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Moonrise Kingdom but asks for a colder reading of it.
mid90s (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Manchester by the Sea but asks for a colder reading of it.
Boy Erased (2018)
Keeps the drama register of mid90s but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter Hedges
Director
2 films together
Notably Ben Is Back
Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Moonrise Kingdom
Terry Gilliam
Director
1 film together
Notably The Zero Theorem
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Labor Day
Michael Cuesta
Director
1 film together
Notably Kill the Messenger
Kenneth Lonergan
Director
1 film together
Notably Manchester by the Sea
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Lady Bird
Martin McDonagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jonah Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably mid90s
Joel Edgerton
Director
1 film together
Notably Boy Erased
Alma Har'el
Director
1 film together
Notably Honey Boy
Azazel Jacobs
Director
1 film together
Notably French Exit
John Ridley
Director
1 film together
Notably Shirley
Eva Victor
Director
1 film together
Notably Sorry, Baby
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peter Hedges
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Ben Is BackMartin McDonagh
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriWes Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Moonrise KingdomKenneth Lonergan
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Manchester by the SeaJonah Hill
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
mid90sGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lady BirdJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Labor DayAlma Har'el
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Honey BoyJoel Edgerton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Boy ErasedEva Victor
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sorry, BabyJohn Ridley
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShirleyMichael Cuesta
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kill the MessengerTerry Gilliam
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Zero TheoremAzazel Jacobs
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
French ExitSix 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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Labor Day
as Richard
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Dan in Real Life
as Lilly's Dance Partner
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
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. Lucas Hedges 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
17 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
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Labor Day
as Richard
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kill the Messenger
as Ian Webb
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
as Robbie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Moonrise Kingdom
as Redford
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Lady Bird
as Danny O'Neill
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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