Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6604
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Luis Da Silva, Jr. 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.
Luis Da Silva, Jr. appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Luis. Fast X is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Louis Leterrier, James Cullen Bressack, George Gallo and others, Luis Da Silva, Jr. 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.
Fast X (2023) as Diogo · Fast Five (2011) as Diogo · 21 Jump Street (2012) as One-Percenter #3 - Luis
Career snapshot
Ranked #6604 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2011–2025
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Fast X
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Fast Five
Most frequent director
Louis Leterrier
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Louis Leterrier
Most common genre
Action
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.2
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
5.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Poison Rose, The Fanatic, Trading Paint — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.8
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.8
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. The Poison Rose, The Fanatic, Trading Paint.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 5.65 films | 5.82 films |
| Action | 6.010 films | 5.79 films |
| Thriller | 5.77 films | 5.79 films |
| Comedy | 6.54 films | — |
| Crime | 6.011 films | 5.66 films |
| Romance | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2011Fast Five
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Diogo. 7.2 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
2025High Rollers
The current state of the argument, as Fernando.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Diogo
Directed by Louis Leterrier
as Diogo
Directed by Justin Lin
as One-Percenter #3 - Luis
Directed by Phil Lord
as Fernando
Directed by Unknown
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
Diogo
Fast X (2023)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Diogo gives Luis Da Silva, Jr. a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Diogo
Fast Five (2011)
Performance score7.1
Fast Five asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diogo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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One-Percenter #3 - Luis
21 Jump Street (2012)
Performance score6.8
21 Jump Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. One-Percenter #3 - Luis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dealer
The Heat (2013)
Performance score6.6
The Heat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dealer 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 Diogo
Start here. Fast X is the clearest statement of what Luis Da Silva, Jr. does — accessible, 142 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Luis 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.
Fast Five (2011)
Keeps the action register of Fast X but asks for a colder reading of it.
21 Jump Street (2012)
Keeps the action register of Fast Five but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Heat (2013)
Keeps the action register of 21 Jump Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
High Rollers (2025)
Keeps the action register of The Heat but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast Five
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably 21 Jump Street
John Hyams
Director
1 film together
Notably Dragon Eyes
Paul Feig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Heat
Niels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Man Down
Sarik Andreasyan
Director
1 film together
Notably American Heist
Paco Cabezas
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Right
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably I Am Wrath
John Hillcoat
Director
1 film together
Notably Triple 9
Kevin Connolly
Director
1 film together
Notably Gotti
Fred Durst
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fanatic
George Gallo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Poison Rose
James Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together
Notably Fortress
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast FivePhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
21 Jump StreetPaul Feig
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The HeatPaco Cabezas
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. RightNiels Arden Oplev
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Man DownJohn Hillcoat
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Triple 9Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Am WrathJames Cullen Bressack
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FortressKevin Connolly
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GottiJohn Hyams
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dragon EyesSarik Andreasyan
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American HeistGeorge Gallo
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Poison RoseFred Durst
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FanaticSix 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
Fast Five
as Diogo
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Taurus
as Lewis
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fast Five
as Diogo
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Heat
as Dealer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fast X
as Diogo
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. Luis Da Silva, Jr. 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
19 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
Fast Five
as Diogo
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fast X
as Diogo
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Taurus
as Lewis
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Stowaway
as Captain Lawson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Fast X
as Diogo
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Triple 9
as Luis Pinto
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mr. Right
as Espinoza
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fast X
as Diogo
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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