Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4213
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Nick Mohammed 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.
Nick Mohammed appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nick. The Martian 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, comedy, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tom Kingsley, John Slattery, Josh Ruben and others, Nick Mohammed 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 Martian (2015) as Tim Grimes · Christopher Robin (2018) as Piglet (voice) · Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) as Dr Fry (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4213 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2015–2025
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
The Martian
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
The Martian
Most frequent director
Tom Kingsley
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tom Kingsley
Most common genre
Comedy
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 38m
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
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Kid Who Would Be King, Christopher Robin, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Kid Who Would Be King, Christopher Robin, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.22 films | — |
| Action | 6.21 film | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 6.33 films | 6.44 films |
| Crime | — | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015The Martian
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tim Grimes. 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
2025Deep Cover
The current state of the argument, as Hugh.
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 Tim Grimes
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Piglet (voice)
Directed by Marc Forster
as Hugh
Directed by Tom Kingsley
as Dr Fry (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Deputy KB Reddy
Directed by John Slattery
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
Tim Grimes
The Martian (2015)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tim Grimes gives Nick Mohammed a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Piglet (voice)
Christopher Robin (2018)
Performance score7.4
Christopher Robin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Piglet (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hugh
Deep Cover (2025)
Performance score7.1
Deep Cover asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hugh is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr Fry (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
Performance score6.8
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr Fry (voice) 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 Tim Grimes
Start here. The Martian is the clearest statement of what Nick Mohammed does — accessible, 141 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Nick 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.
Christopher Robin (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of The Martian but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Christopher Robin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Maggie Moore(s) (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget but asks for a colder reading of it.
Deep Cover (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Maggie Moore(s) but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Martian
Mandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Christopher Robin
Joe Cornish
Director
1 film together
Notably The Kid Who Would Be King
Josh Ruben
Director
1 film together
Notably Death to 2021
John Slattery
Director
1 film together
Notably Maggie Moore(s)
Tom Kingsley
Director
1 film together
Notably Deep Cover
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MartianMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christopher RobinTom Kingsley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deep CoverJoe Cornish
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 Kid Who Would Be KingJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nutcracker and the Four RealmsJosh Ruben
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death to 2021John Slattery
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maggie Moore(s)Mandie Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieSix 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 Martian
as Tim Grimes
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Short Butler
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 Martian
as Tim Grimes
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Ariyaratna
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Martian
as Tim Grimes
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. Nick Mohammed 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in comedy, 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 Martian
as Tim Grimes
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Deep Cover
as Hugh
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
as Short Butler
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Maggie Moore(s)
as Deputy KB Reddy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Martian
as Tim Grimes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Kid Who Would Be King
as Mr. Hyde
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Ariyaratna
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Martian
as Tim Grimes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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