Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4517
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Michael Landes 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 Landes appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Michael. Arthur the King is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 drama, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Simon Cellan Jones, Barbara Wiltshire, Michael Goi and others, Michael Landes 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.
Arthur the King (2024) as Broadrail Executive · Burlesque (2010) as Greg · Shot Caller (2017) as Steve
Career snapshot
Ranked #4517 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Arthur the King
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Arthur the King
Most frequent director
Ric Roman Waugh
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Ric Roman Waugh
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Last Chance Harvey, Final Destination 2, Hart's War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.3
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. Last Chance Harvey, Final Destination 2, Hart's War.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 6.32 films | 6.93 films | 3.82 films |
| Action | — | 6.61 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.24 films | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.31 film |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | 6.61 film |
| Romance | 6.31 film | 7.21 film | — |
| Horror | 6.31 film | 4.82 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Hart's War
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Maj. M.F. Giannetti.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Arthur the King
7.5 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
2026Sugar Beach
The current state of the argument, as Peter Fitzpatrick.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Broadrail Executive
Directed by Simon Cellan Jones
as Greg
Directed by Steve Antin
as Steve
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
as Binkert
Directed by Stephen Gaghan
as Thomas Burke
Directed by David R. Ellis
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
Broadrail Executive
Arthur the King (2024)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Broadrail Executive gives Michael Landes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Greg
Burlesque (2010)
Performance score7.1
Burlesque asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Greg is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Steve
Shot Caller (2017)
Performance score6.9
Shot Caller asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Steve is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Binkert
Gold (2016)
Performance score6.8
Gold asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Binkert 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 Broadrail Executive
Start here. Arthur the King is the clearest statement of what Michael Landes does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 7.5 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.
Final Destination 2 (2003)
A deliberate change of key after Arthur the King — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Burlesque (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Final Destination 2 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gold (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Burlesque but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shot Caller (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Gold but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
2 films together
Notably Shot Caller
Gregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together
Notably Hart's War
David R. Ellis
Director
1 film together
Notably Final Destination 2
Steve Antin
Director
1 film together
Notably Burlesque
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Gold
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disappointments Room
Michael Goi
Director
1 film together
Notably Mary
Barbara Wiltshire
Director
1 film together
Notably Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Simon Cellan Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Arthur the King
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ric Roman Waugh
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Shot CallerSimon Cellan Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Arthur the KingSteve Antin
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BurlesqueStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GoldGregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hart's WarBarbara Wiltshire
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miranda: My Such Fun CelebrationDavid R. Ellis
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Final Destination 2Michael Goi
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaryD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disappointments RoomSix 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
Arthur the King
as Broadrail Executive
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Burlesque
as Greg
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Arthur the King
as Broadrail Executive
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
as Newscaster
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Arthur the King
as Broadrail Executive
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 Landes 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
24 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
7 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
Arthur the King
as Broadrail Executive
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Shot Caller
as Steve
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Burlesque
as Greg
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Final Destination 2
as Thomas Burke
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Arthur the King
as Broadrail Executive
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Angel Has Fallen
as Sam Wilcox
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Burlesque
as Greg
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Shot Caller
as Steve
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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