Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7228
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mark Camacho represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Mark is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Mark Camacho appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mark. Arrival is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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 family, animation, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Damián Szifron, Kate Miles Melville, Denis Villeneuve and others, Mark Camacho 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.
Arrival (2016) as Richard Riley · Arrival (2016) as Richard Riley · X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) as President Richard Nixon
Career snapshot
Ranked #7228 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Arrival
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Arrival
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.8
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Good Sam, Arrival, Arrival — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 7 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
2010s
1 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Good Sam, Arrival, Arrival.
Most productive era
2000s
8 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.46 films | 7.35 films | 6.63 films |
| Action | — | 5.83 films | 7.51 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 6.24 films | — | 6.42 films |
| Comedy | — | 5.52 films | 6.33 films | 6.53 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | 9.11 film | — |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 6.53 films | — | 6.91 film |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Snake Eyes
Where our catalogue meets this career, as C.J..
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Arrival
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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
The current state of the argument, as Cheese Seller / Sailor (voice).
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.
21 of 21 films
as Richard Riley
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Richard Riley
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as President Richard Nixon
Directed by Bryan Singer
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 25 titles · 25 total credits · active 1992–2026
Lydia and the Mist Rider
2026 · Cheese Seller / Sailor (voice)
To Catch a Killer
2023 · Chief Karl Jackson
Plan B
2023 · TV · Louis
Office Games
2022 · Bruce
Peace by Chocolate
2021 · Frank
All My Friends Are Dead
2020 · Additional Voices (voice)
Good Sam
2019 · David Dyal
Arrival
2016 · Richard Riley
Nine Lives
2016 · Josh Boone
The Walk
2015 · Guy Tozolli
Between
2015 · TV · Dr. Evans
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · President Richard Nixon
Ascension
2014 · TV · Martin Carillo
Barney's Version
2010 · T / U Productions Executive #1
I'm Not There
2007 · Norman
Wicker Park
2004 · Bartender
Shattered Glass
2003 · Glass' Lawyer
Abandon
2002 · Detective Rigney
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002 · Robot Holding Cell Clerk
The Score
2001 · Sapperstein's Cousin
Heist
2001 · Jewelry Store Guard
The Whole Nine Yards
2000 · Interrogator #1
Snake Eyes
1998 · C.J.
Arthur
1996 · TV · Oliver Frensky (voice)
The defining work
#1
Richard Riley
Arrival (2016)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Richard Riley gives Mark Camacho a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Richard Riley
Arrival (2016)
Performance score7.4
Arrival asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Richard Riley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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President Richard Nixon
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Performance score7.3
X-Men: Days of Future Past asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. President Richard Nixon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Frank
Peace by Chocolate (2021)
Performance score7.2
Peace by Chocolate asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frank 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 Richard Riley
Start here. Arrival is the clearest statement of what Mark Camacho does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mark 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.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Arrival — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Arrival (2016)
Keeps the science fiction register of X-Men: Days of Future Past but asks for a colder reading of it.
Peace by Chocolate (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Arrival but asks for a colder reading of it.
Office Games (2022)
Same director as Peace by Chocolate, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Arrival
Brian De Palma
Director
1 film together
Notably Snake Eyes
Jonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Nine Yards
David Mamet
Director
1 film together
Notably Heist
Frank Oz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Score
Ron Underwood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Abandon
Paul McGuigan
Director
1 film together
Notably Wicker Park
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Not There
Richard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together
Notably Barney's Version
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Days of Future Past
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably The Walk
Barry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together
Notably Nine Lives
Kate Miles Melville
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Sam
Damián Szifron
Director
1 film together
Notably To Catch a Killer
Amy Adams
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Jeremy Renner
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Forest Whitaker
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Michael Stuhlbarg
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Mark O'Brien
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Tzi Ma
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Abigail Pniowsky
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Julia Scarlett Dan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Jadyn Malone
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Frank Schorpion
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Lucas Chartier-Dessert
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Christian Jadah
Actor
1 film together
Notably Arrival
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ArrivalBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: Days of Future PastRobert Zemeckis
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 WalkRichard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barney's VersionDamián Szifron
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Catch a KillerPaul McGuigan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wicker ParkFrank Oz
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 ScoreTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Not ThereJonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Whole Nine YardsDavid Mamet
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HeistBrian De Palma
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snake EyesKate Miles Melville
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good SamBarry Sonnenfeld
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nine LivesStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AbandonRon Underwood
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 Adventures of Pluto NashSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2017
Arrival
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Arrival
as Richard Riley
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 Walk
as Guy Tozolli
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Arrival
as Richard Riley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
All My Friends Are Dead
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Arrival
as Richard Riley
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. Mark Camacho has known it for a long time.”
“If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?”
“Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #277 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Rewatchability, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2016–2016 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Richard Riley — Arrival | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Arrival | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Best Time Travel Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Best Movies of the 2010s, Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
Arrival
as Richard Riley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Arrival
as Richard Riley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Walk
as Guy Tozolli
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Arrival
as Richard Riley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Arrival
as Richard Riley
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as President Richard Nixon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Good Sam
as David Dyal
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Arrival
as Richard Riley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 11 Nutevio collections
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