Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#194
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Maurice Compte represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Maurice is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Maurice Compte appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Maurice. The Odyssey is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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, thriller, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Isaac Florentine, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and others, Maurice Compte 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 Odyssey (2026) as Steward of Menelaus · Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) as Land Pirate Maurice · End of Watch (2012) as Big Evil
Career snapshot
Ranked #194 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
The Odyssey
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
The Odyssey
Most frequent director
David Ayer
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Ayer
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
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
6.4
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
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Hellfire, The Odyssey, Dominique — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.4
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. Showtime, Before Night Falls.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 6.74 films | 6.32 films |
| Action | 5.61 film | 5.94 films | 6.47 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.56 films | 5.94 films |
| Comedy | 5.61 film | 6.04 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.54 films | 5.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Nicolas Abreu.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026The Odyssey
8.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Steward of Menelaus.
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 Steward of Menelaus
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Land Pirate Maurice
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Big Evil
Directed by David Ayer
as Rosco
Directed by Unknown
as Benny 'Borracho' Magalon
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
Steward of Menelaus
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Steward of Menelaus gives Maurice Compte a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Land Pirate Maurice
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Performance score7.4
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Land Pirate Maurice is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Big Evil
End of Watch (2012)
Performance score7.2
End of Watch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Big Evil is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rosco
Born a Champion (2021)
Performance score7.1
Born a Champion asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rosco 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 Steward of Menelaus
Start here. The Odyssey is the clearest statement of what Maurice Compte does — accessible, 173 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Maurice 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.
End of Watch (2012)
A deliberate change of key after The Odyssey — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Den of Thieves (2018)
Keeps the crime register of End of Watch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Keeps the thriller register of Den of Thieves but asks for a colder reading of it.
Born a Champion (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Ayer
Director
2 films together
Notably End of Watch
Scott Frank
Director
1 film together
Notably A Walk Among the Tombstones
Jeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together
Notably True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Robb Cullen
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time in Venice
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Isaac Florentine
Director
1 film together
Notably Hellfire
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Ayer
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
End of WatchChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OdysseyQuentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time... in HollywoodScott Frank
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Walk Among the TombstonesJeff Wadlow
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
True Memoirs of an International AssassinIsaac Florentine
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HellfireRobb Cullen
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time in VeniceSix 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 Odyssey
as Steward of Menelaus
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Before Night Falls
as Nicolas Abreu
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 Odyssey
as Steward of Menelaus
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Land Pirate Maurice
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Odyssey
as Steward of Menelaus
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. Maurice Compte 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
26 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
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
12 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 Odyssey
as Steward of Menelaus
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
End of Watch
as Big Evil
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Before Night Falls
as Nicolas Abreu
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Walk Among the Tombstones
as Danny Ortiz
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Odyssey
as Steward of Menelaus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Steward of Menelaus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
End of Watch
as Big Evil
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Land Pirate Maurice
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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