Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#22015
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Phaldut Sharma 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.
Phaldut Sharma appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Phaldut. Gravity is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 tv movie, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ashley Way, Charles Martin Smith, Armando Iannucci and others, Phaldut Sharma 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.
Gravity (2013) as Shariff (voice) · Children of Men (2006) as Ian · Gravity (2013) as Shariff (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #22015 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2006–2024
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Gravity
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Gravity
Most frequent director
Alfonso Cuarón
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Alfonso Cuarón
Most common genre
Drama
4 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
6.9
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
6.7
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
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Children of Men — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.6
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. Children of Men.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.82 films | 6.52 films |
| Action | 7.61 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 7.61 film | 7.82 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.41 film | — |
| Sci-Fi | — | 8.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Children of Men
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ian.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013Gravity
8.4 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
2024Men Up
The current state of the argument, as Peetham ‘Pete’ Shah.
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.
6 of 6 films
as Shariff (voice)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as Ian
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as Shariff (voice)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as Peetham ‘Pete’ Shah
Directed by Ashley Way
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 12 of 12 titles · 12 total credits · active 2001–2024
Men Up
2024 · Peetham ‘Pete’ Shah
Full Circle
2023 · TV · Garmen Harry
Sherwood
2022 · TV · Chief Constable Fraser
A Christmas Gift from Bob
2020 · Moody
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019 · Butcher
Hanna
2019 · TV · Tom
Unforgotten
2015 · TV · Ram Sidhu
Gravity
2013 · Shariff (voice)
Gavin & Stacey
2007 · TV · Achmed
Children of Men
2006 · Ian
Life on Mars
2006 · TV · Ravi Gandhi
The Office
2001 · TV · Sanj
The defining work
#1
Shariff (voice)
Gravity (2013)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shariff (voice) gives Phaldut Sharma a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ian
Children of Men (2006)
Performance score7.4
Children of Men asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ian is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shariff (voice)
Gravity (2013)
Performance score7.3
Gravity asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shariff (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Moody
A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)
Performance score7.1
A Christmas Gift from Bob asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Moody 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 Shariff (voice)
Start here. Gravity is the clearest statement of what Phaldut Sharma does — accessible, 91 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Phaldut 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.
Children of Men (2006)
Same director as Gravity, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Gravity (2013)
Same director as Children of Men, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Gravity but asks for a colder reading of it.
Men Up (2024)
Keeps the drama register of A Christmas Gift from Bob but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
3 films together
Notably Gravity
Armando Iannucci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Personal History of David Copperfield
Charles Martin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably A Christmas Gift from Bob
Ashley Way
Director
1 film together
Notably Men Up
Sandra Bullock
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
George Clooney
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Ed Harris
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Orto Ignatiussen
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Amy Warren
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Basher Savage
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
3 films together · 7.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
GravityCharles Martin Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Christmas Gift from BobArmando Iannucci
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 Personal History of David CopperfieldAshley Way
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Men UpSix 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
Gravity
as Shariff (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
A Christmas Gift from Bob
as Moody
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Personal History of David Copperfield
as Butcher
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Gravity
as Shariff (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. Phaldut Sharma has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.5 | 7.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #625 of 681 | #487 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | Unknown |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.4 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama |
| Directors | Alfonso Cuarón | Craig Gillespie, Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Quiet performance, Rewatchability | Screen presence, Transformation, Drama |
| Career timeline | 2013–2013 | 2023–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Shariff (voice) — Gravity | Isidor Rabi — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | Gravity | Oppenheimer |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Sci-Fi Movies, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
David Krumholtz edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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
4 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
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Christmas Gift from Bob
as Moody
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Children of Men
as Ian
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Gravity
as Shariff (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 6 Nutevio collections
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Works with the same directors — shared collaborators
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