Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7928
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Michael Wildman 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 Wildman appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Michael. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Balda, Kenji Kamiyama, David Leitch and others, Michael Wildman 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.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) as Centaur · The Sheep Detectives (2026) as Frank the County Police Officer · Ready Player One (2018) as Sixer Drill Instructor
Career snapshot
Ranked #7928 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
The Sheep Detectives
Most frequent director
Kyle Balda
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kyle Balda
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 59m
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
6.6
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
7.2 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Sheep Detectives, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
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 Bourne Ultimatum, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, WΔZ.
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 | 6.72 films | — | — |
| Action | 7.51 film | 6.76 films | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | 6.72 films | 6.43 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | 7.81 film |
| Crime | 5.91 film | 6.01 film | — |
| Horror | 5.91 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as CRI Agent.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7.9 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 Frank the County Police Officer.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Frank the County Police Officer
Directed by Kyle Balda
as Sixer Drill Instructor
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as CRI Agent
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as U.K. Police Leader
Directed by David Leitch
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
Centaur
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Centaur gives Michael Wildman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Frank the County Police Officer
The Sheep Detectives (2026)
Performance score7.6
The Sheep Detectives asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frank the County Police Officer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sixer Drill Instructor
Ready Player One (2018)
Performance score7.6
Ready Player One asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sixer Drill Instructor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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CRI Agent
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Performance score7.3
The Bourne Ultimatum asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. CRI Agent 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 Centaur
Start here. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the clearest statement of what Michael Wildman does — accessible, 138 minutes, and rated 7.9 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.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ready Player One (2018)
Keeps the action register of The Bourne Ultimatum but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Keeps the action register of Ready Player One but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Sheep Detectives (2026)
Keeps the comedy register of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tom Shankland
Director
1 film together
Notably WΔZ
David Yates
Director
1 film together
Notably Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bourne Ultimatum
Nick Love
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sweeney
Bharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together
Notably Spooks: The Greater Good
Babak Najafi
Director
1 film together
Notably London Has Fallen
Michael Cuesta
Director
1 film together
Notably American Assassin
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Ready Player One
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Kenji Kamiyama
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sheep Detectives
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Yates
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sheep DetectivesSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ready Player OnePaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bourne UltimatumDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawKenji Kamiyama
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the RohirrimMichael Cuesta
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American AssassinBabak Najafi
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
London Has FallenBharat Nalluri
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spooks: The Greater GoodNick Love
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SweeneyTom Shankland
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WΔZSix 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
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
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 Wildman 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 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
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Bourne Ultimatum
as CRI Agent
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Centaur
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Sheep Detectives
as Frank the County Police Officer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ready Player One
as Sixer Drill Instructor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ready Player One
as Sixer Drill Instructor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as General Targg (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
WΔZ
as O'Hare
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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