Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#29927
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Nick Tate represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 47 years in, and Nick is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Nick Tate appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Nick. The Great Gatsby 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 romance, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Baz Luhrmann, Steven Spielberg, Richard Attenborough and others, Nick Tate 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 Great Gatsby (2013) as Taxi Driver · Cry Freedom (1987) as Pilot · A Man for All Seasons (1966) as Master at Arms (uncredited)
Career snapshot
Ranked #29927 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
1966–2013
Career length
47 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Great Gatsby
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Great Gatsby
Most frequent director
Baz Luhrmann
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Baz Luhrmann
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
2h 13m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
7.0
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
1960s
7.0 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. A Man for All Seasons — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. A Man for All Seasons.
Most productive era
1980s
2 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 | 1960s | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.92 films | — | 7.41 film |
| Action | — | — | — | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 6.31 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.91 film | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | 7.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Master at Arms (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2013The Great Gatsby
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. The current state of the argument, as Taxi Driver.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Taxi Driver
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
as Pilot
Directed by Richard Attenborough
as Master at Arms (uncredited)
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
as Noodler
Directed by Steven Spielberg
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
Taxi Driver
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Taxi Driver gives Nick Tate a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Pilot
Cry Freedom (1987)
Performance score6.9
Cry Freedom asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pilot is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Master at Arms (uncredited)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Performance score6.9
A Man for All Seasons asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Master at Arms (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Noodler
Hook (1991)
Performance score6.8
Hook asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Noodler 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 Taxi Driver
Start here. The Great Gatsby is the clearest statement of what Nick Tate does — accessible, 143 minutes, and rated 7.4 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.
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Keeps the drama register of The Great Gatsby but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cry Freedom (1987)
Keeps the drama register of A Man for All Seasons but asks for a colder reading of it.
Evil Angels (1988)
Keeps the drama register of Cry Freedom but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hook (1991)
A deliberate change of key after Evil Angels — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Baz Luhrmann
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 Great GatsbyRichard Attenborough
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cry FreedomFred Zinnemann
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Man for All Seasons
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HookSix 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 Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
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 Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
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 Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Evil Angels
as Charlwood
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
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 Tate 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
47 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
4 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 Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Killer Elite
as Commander B
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Hook
as Noodler
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Killer Elite
as Commander B
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Killer Elite
as Commander B
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Great Gatsby
as Taxi Driver
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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