Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3131
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Fabian 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.
Patrick Fabian appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. The Death of Superman is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 comedy, music, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jesse Eisenberg, Sara Zandieh, Christopher Berkeley and others, Patrick Fabian 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 Death of Superman (2019) as Hank Henshaw (voice) · The Other Zoey (2023) as Matt MacLaren · Reign of the Supermen (2019) as Hank Henshaw (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #3131 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Death of Superman
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Death of Superman
Most frequent director
Jake Castorena
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jake Castorena
Most common genre
Drama
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
6.3 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Reign of the Supermen, Eat Brains Love, The Death of Superman — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.3
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.3
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. Must Love Dogs.
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 | — | 6.64 films | 4.33 films |
| Action | — | 6.84 films | 6.32 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 5.32 films | 4.33 films |
| Romance | 5.91 film | 6.11 film | 7.01 film |
| Horror | — | 4.61 film | 5.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Must Love Dogs
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Donald.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.5 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
2026The Debut
The current state of the argument, as Howard.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Matt MacLaren
Directed by Sara Zandieh
as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Directed by Christopher Berkeley
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
Directed by Jake Castorena
as Jake Wind
Directed by Andrew Stevens
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Hank Henshaw (voice)
The Death of Superman (2019)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hank Henshaw (voice) gives Patrick Fabian a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Matt MacLaren
The Other Zoey (2023)
Performance score7.1
The Other Zoey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Matt MacLaren is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
Performance score7.1
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hank Henshaw (voice)
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Performance score6.9
Reign of the Supermen asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hank Henshaw (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 Hank Henshaw (voice)
Start here. The Death of Superman is the clearest statement of what Patrick Fabian does — accessible, 81 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Patrick 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.
Reign of the Supermen (2019)
Same director as The Death of Superman, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Send It! (2021)
Keeps the action register of Reign of the Supermen but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Other Zoey (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of Send It! but asks for a colder reading of it.
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
A deliberate change of key after The Other Zoey — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together
Notably The Death of Superman
Gary David Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Must Love Dogs
Rodman Flender
Director
1 film together
Notably Eat Brains Love
Andrew Stevens
Director
1 film together
Notably Send It!
Christopher Berkeley
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Sara Zandieh
Director
1 film together
Notably The Other Zoey
Jesse Eisenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Debut
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jake Castorena
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Death of SupermanSara Zandieh
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 Other ZoeyChristopher Berkeley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: The Doom That Came to GothamAndrew Stevens
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Send It!Gary David Goldberg
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Must Love DogsRodman Flender
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Eat Brains LoveJesse Eisenberg
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DebutSix 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 Death of Superman
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
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 Other Zoey
as Matt MacLaren
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 Death of Superman
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Must Love Dogs
as Donald
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Death of Superman
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
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. Patrick Fabian 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
21 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
7 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
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Other Zoey
as Matt MacLaren
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Harvey Dent / Two-Face (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Death of Superman
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Death and Return of Superman
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Other Zoey
as Matt MacLaren
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Death of Superman
as Hank Henshaw (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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