Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Peter Hudson appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Peter. The Last Duel is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 horror, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Chaves, Ridley Scott, Pablo Larraín and others, Peter Hudson 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 Last Duel (2021) as Magistrate · The Nun II (2023) as Father Ridley · Jackie (2016) as Admiral George Burkley
Career snapshot
A Nutevio catalogue profile for Peter Hudson.
Films in Nutevio
5
2010–2023
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
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Unknown
Oscar nominations
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Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Last Duel
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Last Duel
Most frequent director
Luc Besson
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Luc Besson
Most common genre
Drama
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
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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
6.4
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
2020s
7.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Nun II, The Last Duel — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
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. Jackie, The Family, Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds.
Most productive era
2010s
3 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 | 6.51 film | 7.41 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 7.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | — |
| Crime | 6.51 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds
Where our catalogue meets this career, as General Montgomery.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The Last Duel
7.4 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
2023The Nun II
The current state of the argument, as Father Ridley.
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.
5 of 5 films
as Magistrate
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Father Ridley
Directed by Michael Chaves
as Admiral George Burkley
Directed by Pablo Larraín
as Giovanni's Lawyer Court House
Directed by Luc Besson
as General Montgomery
Directed by Luc Besson
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
Magistrate
The Last Duel (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Magistrate gives Peter Hudson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Father Ridley
The Nun II (2023)
Performance score6.6
The Nun II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father Ridley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Admiral George Burkley
Jackie (2016)
Performance score6.5
Jackie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Admiral George Burkley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Giovanni's Lawyer Court House
The Family (2013)
Performance score6.5
The Family asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Giovanni's Lawyer Court House 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 Magistrate
Start here. The Last Duel is the clearest statement of what Peter Hudson does — accessible, 153 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Peter 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.
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)
A deliberate change of key after The Last Duel — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Family (2013)
Same director as Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Jackie (2016)
A deliberate change of key after The Family — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Nun II (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Jackie — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Luc Besson
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Family
Ridley Scott
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 Last DuelMichael Chaves
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Nun IIPablo Larraín
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
JackieSix 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 Last Duel
as Magistrate
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 Last Duel
as Magistrate
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 Last Duel
as Magistrate
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Family
as Giovanni's Lawyer Court House
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Last Duel
as Magistrate
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. Peter Hudson 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
2 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
The Last Duel
as Magistrate
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Nun II
as Father Ridley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Last Duel
as Magistrate
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds
as General Montgomery
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Family
as Giovanni's Lawyer Court House
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Family
as Giovanni's Lawyer Court House
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Last Duel
as Magistrate
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds
as General Montgomery
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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