Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2773
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Max Minghella 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.
Max Minghella appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Max. The Social Network 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 science fiction, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with James Watkins, Damien Chazelle, Darren Lynn Bousman and others, Max Minghella 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 Social Network (2010) as Divya Narendra · Babylon (2022) as Irving Thalberg · Agora (2009) as Davus
Career snapshot
Ranked #2773 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Social Network
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Social Network
Most frequent director
James Watkins
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With James Watkins
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Agora, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Art School Confidential — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. Agora, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Art School Confidential.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 6.44 films | 6.46 films | 7.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.41 film | 6.31 film | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.02 films | 6.03 films | 7.31 film |
| Romance | 6.52 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 3.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Cold Mountain
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Young Confederate Soldier (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.4 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
2026Clayface
The current state of the argument, as John Borrelli.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Irving Thalberg
Directed by Damien Chazelle
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
Divya Narendra
The Social Network (2010)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Divya Narendra gives Max Minghella a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Davus
Agora (2009)
Performance score7.4
Agora asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Davus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Irving Thalberg
Babylon (2022)
Performance score7.2
Babylon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Irving Thalberg is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lee Tourneau
Horns (2013)
Performance score6.8
Horns asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lee Tourneau 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 Divya Narendra
Start here. The Social Network is the clearest statement of what Max Minghella does — accessible, 121 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Max 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.
Art School Confidential (2006)
Keeps the drama register of The Social Network but asks for a colder reading of it.
Agora (2009)
Keeps the drama register of Art School Confidential but asks for a colder reading of it.
Horns (2013)
Same director as Agora, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Babylon (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Horns but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Mountain
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Syriana
Terry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Art School Confidential
Robert B. Weide
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
David Fincher
Director
1 film together
Notably The Social Network
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ides of March
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Internship
Jesse Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably About Alex
Patricia Rozema
Director
1 film together
Notably Into the Forest
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together
Notably Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Damien Chazelle
Director
1 film together
Notably Babylon
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Clayface
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Fincher
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Social NetworkDamien Chazelle
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BabylonAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold MountainGeorge Clooney
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 Ides of MarchStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SyrianaShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InternshipJesse Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
About AlexTerry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Art School ConfidentialRobert B. Weide
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleDarren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spiral: From the Book of SawPatricia Rozema
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Into the ForestJames Watkins
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ClayfaceSix 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 Social Network
as Divya Narendra
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cold Mountain
as Young Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
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 Social Network
as Divya Narendra
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Babylon
as Irving Thalberg
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Social Network
as Divya Narendra
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. Max Minghella 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
23 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
11 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
The Social Network
as Divya Narendra
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
as Detective William Schenk
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cold Mountain
as Young Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
as Detective William Schenk
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Agora
as Davus
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Agora
as Davus
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Vincent Lepak
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Ides of March
as Ben Harpen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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