Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10502
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Michael Jibson 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.
Michael Jibson appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Michael. 1917 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, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, horror, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Edgar Wright, Sam Mendes, Rian Johnson and others, Michael Jibson 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.
1917 (2019) as Lieutenant Hutton · Last Night in Soho (2021) as Male Detective · The Physician (2013) as Stratford Monk
Career snapshot
Ranked #10502 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2008–2021
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
1917
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
1917
Most frequent director
Edgar Wright
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Edgar Wright
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
2h 1m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Last Night in Soho, To Olivia — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.1
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. The Bank Job.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 6.91 film | 7.05 films | 7.12 films |
| Action | — | 6.53 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.91 film | 6.22 films | 7.31 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.51 film | — |
| Crime | 6.91 film | 5.51 film | — |
| Romance | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 7.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Bank Job
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Eddie Burton.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
20191917
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
2021To Olivia
The current state of the argument, as Pete Perkins.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Lieutenant Hutton
Directed by Sam Mendes
as Male Detective
Directed by Edgar Wright
as Stratford Monk
Directed by Philipp Stölzl
as Foreman
Directed by Tom Hooper
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
Lieutenant Hutton
1917 (2019)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lieutenant Hutton gives Michael Jibson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Male Detective
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Performance score7.2
Last Night in Soho asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Male Detective is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Stratford Monk
The Physician (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Physician asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Stratford Monk is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Foreman
Les Misérables (2012)
Performance score7.2
Les Misérables asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Foreman 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 Lieutenant Hutton
Start here. 1917 is the clearest statement of what Michael Jibson does — accessible, 119 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Michael 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.
Les Misérables (2012)
Keeps the drama register of 1917 but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Physician (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Les Misérables but asks for a colder reading of it.
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The Physician but asks for a colder reading of it.
To Olivia (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Last Night in Soho but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bank Job
Ricky Gervais
Director
1 film together
Notably Cemetery Junction
Tom Hooper
Director
1 film together
Notably Les Misérables
Philipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together
Notably The Physician
Henrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together
Notably Good People
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Riot Club
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably Beauty and the Beast
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together
Notably 1917
Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Last Night in Soho
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
1917Edgar Wright
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Last Night in SohoPhilipp Stölzl
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PhysicianTom Hooper
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Les MisérablesRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Last JediBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beauty and the BeastRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bank JobRicky Gervais
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cemetery JunctionLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Riot ClubHenrik Ruben Genz
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good PeopleSix 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
1917
as Lieutenant Hutton
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Les Misérables
as Foreman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
1917
as Lieutenant Hutton
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Kylo's Shuttle Pilot
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
1917
as Lieutenant Hutton
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. Michael Jibson 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
8 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
1917
as Lieutenant Hutton
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Last Night in Soho
as Male Detective
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Beauty and the Beast
as Tavern Keeper
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Last Night in Soho
as Male Detective
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Kylo's Shuttle Pilot
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Kylo's Shuttle Pilot
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Physician
as Stratford Monk
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Kylo's Shuttle Pilot
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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