Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7206
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Pat Healy represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Pat is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Pat Healy appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pat. Dinner in America is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 crime, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Martin Scorsese, Aaron B. Koontz, Cory Finley and others, Pat Healy 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.
Dinner in America (2020) as Norman · Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) as Scientist #1 · Magnolia (1999) as Sir Edmund William Godfrey / Young Pharmacy Kid
Career snapshot
Ranked #7206 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1997–2023
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Dinner in America
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Magnolia
Most frequent director
Martin Scorsese
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Martin Scorsese
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
2h 1m
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
2000s
6.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Snow Angels, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Rescue Dawn — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.9
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Magnolia, Home Alone 3.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.71 film | 6.94 films | 6.64 films | 7.32 films |
| Action | — | — | 7.71 film | — |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.41 film | 7.21 film |
| Comedy | 5.61 film | 7.11 film | 6.01 film | 7.71 film |
| Crime | — | 6.51 film | 6.71 film | 7.41 film |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film | — | 7.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | 5.41 film | 5.94 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997Home Alone 3
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Agent Rogers.
Highest rated performance
1999Magnolia
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2023The Mill
The current state of the argument, as Guard.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Scientist #1
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Sir Edmund William Godfrey / Young Pharmacy Kid
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
as Agent John Burger
Directed by Martin Scorsese
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
Norman
Dinner in America (2020)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Norman gives Pat Healy a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mailman
Run (2020)
Performance score7.6
Run asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mailman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Scientist #1
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Performance score7.5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Scientist #1 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sir Edmund William Godfrey / Young Pharmacy Kid
Magnolia (1999)
Performance score7.5
Magnolia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sir Edmund William Godfrey / Young Pharmacy Kid 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 Norman
Start here. Dinner in America is the clearest statement of what Pat Healy does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pat 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.
Magnolia (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Dinner in America — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Magnolia — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Run (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Captain America: The Winter Soldier — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Run but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Raja Gosnell
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Alone 3
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Magnolia
Terry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost World
Werner Herzog
Director
1 film together
Notably Rescue Dawn
Andrew Dominik
Director
1 film together
Notably The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Snow Angels
Abe Sylvia
Director
1 film together
Notably Dirty Girl
Ivan Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Draft Day
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Post
Cory Finley
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Education
Aaron B. Koontz
Director
1 film together
Notably The Pale Door
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably Killers of the Flower Moon
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: The Winter SoldierPaul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MagnoliaMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killers of the Flower MoonAndrew Dominik
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordTerry Zwigoff
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost WorldSteven Spielberg
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 PostWerner Herzog
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rescue DawnCory Finley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad EducationIvan Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Draft DayDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snow AngelsAbe Sylvia
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dirty GirlRaja Gosnell
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Alone 3Aaron B. Koontz
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Pale DoorSix 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
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Scientist #1
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 Post
as Phil Geyelin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Magnolia
as Sir Edmund William Godfrey / Young Pharmacy Kid
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Draft Day
as Jeff Carson
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dinner in America
as Norman
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. Pat Healy 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
26 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
11 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
Dinner in America
as Norman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Run
as Mailman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Post
as Phil Geyelin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Man from Perlack
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Scientist #1
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Scientist #1
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rescue Dawn
as Norman
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Home Alone 3
as Agent Rogers
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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