Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#92
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Pedro Pascal 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.
Pedro Pascal appears in 27 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pedro. The Making of Gladiator II is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Tony Gilroy, Jon Favreau and others, Pedro Pascal 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 Making of Gladiator II (2024) as Self · The Wild Robot (2024) as Fink (voice) · The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) as The Mandalorian
Career snapshot
Ranked #92 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
27
2011–2027
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
The Making of Gladiator II
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
The Making of Gladiator II
Most frequent director
Anthony Russo
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Anthony Russo
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. If Beale Street Could Talk, The Equalizer 2, Prospect — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. If Beale Street Could Talk, The Equalizer 2, Prospect.
Most productive era
2020s
20 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 | 6.91 film | 5.36 films |
| Action | 6.63 films | 5.99 films |
| Thriller | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 5.97 films |
| Crime | 6.92 films | 6.34 films |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 6.32 films |
| Horror | 5.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Maitre D' Paul De Santo.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024The Making of Gladiator II
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
The current state of the argument, as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic.
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.
27 of 27 films
as Fink (voice)
Directed by Chris Sanders
as The Mandalorian
Directed by Jon Favreau
as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
Directed by Matt Shakman
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
Self
The Making of Gladiator II (2024)
Performance score9.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Pedro Pascal a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fink (voice)
The Wild Robot (2024)
Performance score8.6
The Wild Robot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fink (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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The Mandalorian
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
Performance score8.0
The Mandalorian and Grogu asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The Mandalorian is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
Performance score7.7
The Fantastic 4: First Steps asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic 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 Self
Start here. The Making of Gladiator II is the clearest statement of what Pedro Pascal does — accessible, 20 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pedro 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.
Making of The Last of Us (2023)
Same director as The Making of Gladiator II, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Wild Robot (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Making of The Last of Us — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
Keeps the science fiction register of The Wild Robot but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
Keeps the action register of The Fantastic 4: First Steps but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together
Notably Avengers: Doomsday
George Nolfi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adjustment Bureau
Zhang Yimou
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Wall
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably The Equalizer 2
Barry Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably If Beale Street Could Talk
Patty Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman 1984
Robert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together
Notably We Can Be Heroes
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bubble
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Janicza Bravo
Director
1 film together
Notably House Comes with a Bird
Pedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together
Notably Strange Way of Life
Ethan Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Drive-Away Dolls
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Gladiator II
Chris Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wild Robot
Ari Aster
Director
1 film together
Notably Eddington
Celine Song
Director
1 film together
Notably Materialists
Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Freaky Tales
Matt Shakman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Jon Favreau
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mandalorian and Grogu
Tony Gilroy
Director
1 film together
Notably Behemoth!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Anthony Russo
Director
2 films together · 3.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Avengers: DoomsdayChris Sanders
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wild RobotJon Favreau
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mandalorian and GroguMatt Shakman
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 Fantastic 4: First StepsMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kingsman: The Golden CircleBarry Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
If Beale Street Could TalkRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gladiator IITom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Unbearable Weight of Massive TalentAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Equalizer 2George Nolfi
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Adjustment BureauAri Aster
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EddingtonJanicza Bravo
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
House Comes with a BirdPatty Jenkins
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wonder Woman 1984Ryan Fleck
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Freaky TalesCeline Song
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaterialistsPedro Almodóvar
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Strange Way of LifeZhang Yimou
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Great WallRobert Rodriguez
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Can Be HeroesEthan Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Drive-Away DollsJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BubbleTony Gilroy
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Behemoth!Six 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 Making of Gladiator II
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
If Beale Street Could Talk
as Pietro Alvarez
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 Making of Gladiator II
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Adjustment Bureau
as Maitre D' Paul De Santo
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Making of Gladiator II
as Self
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. Pedro Pascal 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
12 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
The Making of Gladiator II
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Making of Gladiator II
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Materialists
as Harry
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Great Wall
as Tovar
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Making of Gladiator II
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Mandalorian and Grogu
as The Mandalorian
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Materialists
as Harry
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Avengers: Doomsday
as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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