Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2443
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Noel Gugliemi 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.
Noel Gugliemi appears in 44 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Noel. Mi Canción is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicolas Harvard, Chuck Russell, Demetrius Navarro and others, Noel Gugliemi 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.
Mi Canción (2021) as Homie G · The Dark Knight Rises (2012) as Ex-Prisoner at River · Training Day (2001) as Moreno
Career snapshot
Ranked #2443 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
44
2001–2025
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Mi Canción
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Mi Canción
Most frequent director
David Ayer
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Ayer
Most common genre
Action
25 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Soloist, Gamer, Street Kings — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 14 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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 Soloist, Gamer, Street Kings.
Most productive era
2020s
19 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 | 6.95 films | 6.66 films | 5.84 films |
| Action | 6.49 films | 6.75 films | 5.611 films |
| Thriller | 6.56 films | 6.77 films | 5.510 films |
| Comedy | 6.36 films | 5.81 film | — |
| Crime | 6.77 films | 6.77 films | 5.67 films |
| Romance | 5.51 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 4.32 films | 4.95 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Hector.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Mi Canción
8.3 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
2025Evil Nun
The current state of the argument, as Father Hector.
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.
44 of 44 films
as Homie G
Directed by Demetrius Navarro
as Ex-Prisoner at River
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Moreno
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
as Mechanic
Directed by Rob Reiner
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
Homie G
Mi Canción (2021)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Homie G gives Noel Gugliemi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ex-Prisoner at River
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Performance score7.8
The Dark Knight Rises asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ex-Prisoner at River is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Moreno
Training Day (2001)
Performance score7.4
Training Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Moreno is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hector
Furious 7 (2015)
Performance score7.1
Furious 7 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hector 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 Homie G
Start here. Mi Canción is the clearest statement of what Noel Gugliemi does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Noel 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.
Training Day (2001)
Keeps the crime register of Mi Canción but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Bucket List (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Training Day but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Keeps the drama register of The Bucket List but asks for a colder reading of it.
Furious 7 (2015)
Keeps the action register of The Dark Knight Rises but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Ayer
Director
3 films together
Notably Street Kings
Todd Phillips
Director
2 films together
Notably Old School
Brian Taylor
Director
2 films together
Notably Crank
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Training Day
Rob Cohen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fast and the Furious
Clark Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably S.W.A.T.
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably National Security
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Bruce Almighty
Mitch Rouse
Director
1 film together
Notably Employee of the Month
Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bucket List
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably The Soloist
Jonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together
Notably Small Apartments
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dark Knight Rises
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Furious 7
Clint Eastwood
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mule
Glenn Plummer
Director
1 film together
Notably 7 Deadly Sins
Ben Hernandez Bray
Director
1 film together
Notably El Chicano
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mustang
Rob Zombie
Director
1 film together
Notably 3 from Hell
Demetrius Navarro
Director
1 film together
Notably Mi Canción
Chuck Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Paradise City
Nicolas Harvard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Locksmith
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Ayer
Director
3 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Street KingsBrian Taylor
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
CrankTodd Phillips
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Old SchoolDemetrius Navarro
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mi CanciónChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dark Knight RisesAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Training DayJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furious 7Rob Reiner
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bucket ListRob Cohen
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fast and the FuriousLaure de Clermont-Tonnerre
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 MustangClint Eastwood
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 MuleTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bruce AlmightyJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SoloistBen Hernandez Bray
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
El ChicanoClark Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
S.W.A.T.Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
National SecurityNicolas Harvard
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 LocksmithRob Zombie
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
3 from HellJonas Åkerlund
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Small ApartmentsMitch Rouse
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Employee of the MonthChuck Russell
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Paradise CityGlenn Plummer
Director
1 film together · 2.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
7 Deadly SinsSix 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
Training Day
as Moreno
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 Soloist
as Winston Street Cop
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Mi Canción
as Homie G
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Dark Knight Rises
as Ex-Prisoner at River
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mi Canción
as Homie G
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. Noel Gugliemi 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
25 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
Mi Canción
as Homie G
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Dark Knight Rises
as Ex-Prisoner at River
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Soloist
as Winston Street Cop
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Cleaner
as Hector
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Dark Knight Rises
as Ex-Prisoner at River
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
3 from Hell
as Bullet
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Small Apartments
as Dog Walker
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dark Knight Rises
as Ex-Prisoner at River
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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