Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3473
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Patrick Schwarzenegger 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 Schwarzenegger appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Patrick. Midnight Sun is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yulin Kuang, Florian Zeller, Alec Griffen Roth and others, Patrick Schwarzenegger 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.
Midnight Sun (2018) as Charlie Reed · Stuck in Love (2013) as Glen · Moxie (2021) as Mitchell Wilson
Career snapshot
Ranked #3473 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2013–2027
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Midnight Sun
Average Nutevio score
4.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Midnight Sun
Most frequent director
Yulin Kuang
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yulin Kuang
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 23m
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
6.2
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Daniel Isn't Real, Midnight Sun, Grown Ups 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
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
2010s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Daniel Isn't Real, Midnight Sun, Grown Ups 2.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.62 films | 2.65 films |
| Action | — | 5.92 films |
| Thriller | — | 3.02 films |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 3.62 films |
| Crime | — | 5.81 film |
| Romance | 7.62 films | 0.02 films |
| Horror | 6.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2013Grown Ups 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Frat Boy Cooper.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2018Midnight Sun
7.8 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
2027Bunker
The current state of the argument.
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 Charlie Reed
Directed by Scott Speer
as Mitchell Wilson
Directed by Amy Poehler
as Glen
Directed by Josh Boone
as Lance Zutterland
Directed by Seth Savoy
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
Charlie Reed
Midnight Sun (2018)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Charlie Reed gives Patrick Schwarzenegger a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mitchell Wilson
Moxie (2021)
Performance score7.3
Moxie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mitchell Wilson is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Glen
Stuck in Love (2013)
Performance score7.2
Stuck in Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Glen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lance Zutterland
Echo Boomers (2020)
Performance score6.6
Echo Boomers asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lance Zutterland 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 Charlie Reed
Start here. Midnight Sun is the clearest statement of what Patrick Schwarzenegger does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.8 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.
Stuck in Love (2013)
Keeps the romance register of Midnight Sun but asks for a colder reading of it.
Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Stuck in Love — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Echo Boomers (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Daniel Isn't Real — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Moxie (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Echo Boomers but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuck in Love
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Grown Ups 2
Scott Speer
Director
1 film together
Notably Midnight Sun
Seth Savoy
Director
1 film together
Notably Echo Boomers
Amy Poehler
Director
1 film together
Notably Moxie
Rachel Morrison
Director
1 film together
Notably Love of Your Life
Alec Griffen Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Billy Knight
Florian Zeller
Director
1 film together
Notably Bunker
Yulin Kuang
Director
1 film together
Notably Beach Read
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Scott Speer
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Midnight SunJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stuck in LoveAmy Poehler
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoxieDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grown Ups 2Seth Savoy
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Echo BoomersYulin Kuang
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beach ReadFlorian Zeller
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BunkerAlec Griffen Roth
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Billy KnightRachel Morrison
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love of Your LifeSix 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
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Grown Ups 2
as Frat Boy Cooper
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
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 Schwarzenegger 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.
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
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Daniel Isn't Real
as Daniel
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Midnight Sun
as Charlie Reed
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Stowaway
as Michael
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Moxie
as Mitchell Wilson
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Echo Boomers
as Lance Zutterland
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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