Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1481
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Garrow 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 Garrow appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Hunting Grounds is the clearest case: a film rated 6.9 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, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with R.T. Thorne, Derek Barnes, Patrick Hughes and others, Patrick Garrow 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.
Hunting Grounds (2025) as Mick · 40 Acres (2025) as Lewis The Man With Glasses · Chaos Walking (2021) as Ivan
Career snapshot
Ranked #1481 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2006–2025
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.9
Hunting Grounds
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.8
Hunting Grounds
Most frequent director
R.T. Thorne
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With R.T. Thorne
Most common genre
Thriller
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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. Blindness, 16 Blocks — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.5
Across 2 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. Blindness, 16 Blocks.
Most productive era
2020s
9 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 | 6.51 film | 5.81 film | 6.23 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 5.91 film | 6.55 films |
| Thriller | 6.52 films | 5.83 films | 6.16 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.13 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | — | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | 5.42 films | 5.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
200616 Blocks
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Touhey.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025Hunting Grounds
6.9 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. The current state of the argument, as Mick.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Mick
Directed by Derek Barnes
as Lewis The Man With Glasses
Directed by R.T. Thorne
as Ivan
Directed by Doug Liman
as Jim Needles
Directed by Robin Pront
as Mickey
Directed by Unknown
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
Mick
Hunting Grounds (2025)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mick gives Patrick Garrow a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lewis The Man With Glasses
40 Acres (2025)
Performance score6.6
40 Acres asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lewis The Man With Glasses is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ivan
Chaos Walking (2021)
Performance score6.6
Chaos Walking asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ivan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jim Needles
The Silencing (2020)
Performance score6.6
The Silencing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jim Needles 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 Mick
Start here. Hunting Grounds is the clearest statement of what Patrick Garrow does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 6.9 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.
The Silencing (2020)
Keeps the action register of Hunting Grounds but asks for a colder reading of it.
Chaos Walking (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Silencing — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
40 Acres (2025)
Keeps the fantasy register of Chaos Walking but asks for a colder reading of it.
Peak Everything (2025)
Keeps the drama register of 40 Acres but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably 16 Blocks
Fernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together
Notably Blindness
José Padilha
Director
1 film together
Notably RoboCop
Robin Pront
Director
1 film together
Notably The Silencing
Alan Ritchson
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Web: Cicada 3301
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably Chaos Walking
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man from Toronto
Derek Barnes
Director
1 film together
Notably Hunting Grounds
R.T. Thorne
Director
1 film together
Notably 40 Acres
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Derek Barnes
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hunting GroundsR.T. Thorne
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
40 AcresDoug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chaos WalkingFernando Meirelles
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlindnessRichard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
16 BlocksPatrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man from TorontoRobin Pront
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SilencingAlan Ritchson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark Web: Cicada 3301José Padilha
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoboCopSix 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
40 Acres
as Lewis The Man With Glasses
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Peak Everything
as Mickey
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hunting Grounds
as Mick
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Blindness
as Hotel Assistant Manager
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hunting Grounds
as Mick
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 Garrow 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Blindness
as Hotel Assistant Manager
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hunting Grounds
as Mick
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Peak Everything
as Mickey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blindness
as Hotel Assistant Manager
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hunting Grounds
as Mick
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
16 Blocks
as Touhey
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Peak Everything
as Mickey
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hunting Grounds
as Mick
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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