Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3828
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Philip Granger 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.
Philip Granger appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Philip. Backrooms is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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 mystery, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kane Parsons, Justin Kurzel, James Clayton and others, Philip Granger 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.
Backrooms (2026) as Meterman · The Order (2024) as Sheriff Loftlin · The Cases of Mystery Lane (2023) as Milton Tomblinski
Career snapshot
Ranked #3828 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
2016–2027
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Backrooms
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Backrooms
Most frequent director
James Clayton
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With James Clayton
Most common genre
Mystery
3 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
6.1
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
6.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Monster Trucks — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
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. Monster Trucks.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | — | 4.43 films |
| Action | 6.11 film | 5.72 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.23 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 6.51 film |
| Crime | — | 6.03 films |
| Romance | — | 6.51 film |
| Horror | — | 7.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2016Monster Trucks
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Used Car Lot Owner.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Backrooms
7.3 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
2027Harmonia
The current state of the argument, as Officer Mike Greene.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Meterman
Directed by Kane Parsons
as Milton Tomblinski
Directed by Mike Rohl
as Sheriff Loftlin
Directed by Justin Kurzel
as Vic
Directed by James Clayton
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
Meterman
Backrooms (2026)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Meterman gives Philip Granger a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Milton Tomblinski
The Cases of Mystery Lane (2023)
Performance score6.7
The Cases of Mystery Lane asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Milton Tomblinski is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sheriff Loftlin
The Order (2024)
Performance score6.6
The Order asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sheriff Loftlin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Officer Mike Greene
Harmonia (2027)
Performance score6.5
Harmonia asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Mike Greene 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 Meterman
Start here. Backrooms is the clearest statement of what Philip Granger does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Philip 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 Cases of Mystery Lane (2023)
Keeps the mystery register of Backrooms but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Order (2024)
Keeps the drama register of The Cases of Mystery Lane but asks for a colder reading of it.
Get Fast (2024)
Keeps the crime register of The Order but asks for a colder reading of it.
Harmonia (2027)
Keeps the thriller register of Get Fast but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
James Clayton
Director
2 films together
Notably Get Fast
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Trucks
Mike Rohl
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cases of Mystery Lane
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Order
Kane Parsons
Director
1 film together
Notably Backrooms
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
James Clayton
Director
2 films together · 5.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Get FastKane Parsons
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BackroomsJustin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OrderMike Rohl
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cases of Mystery LaneChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster TrucksSix 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
Backrooms
as Meterman
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 Cases of Mystery Lane
as Milton Tomblinski
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Backrooms
as Meterman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Order
as Sheriff Loftlin
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Backrooms
as Meterman
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. Philip Granger 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.
Mystery Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in mystery, 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
Backrooms
as Meterman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Backrooms
as Meterman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Cases of Mystery Lane
as Milton Tomblinski
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Backrooms
as Meterman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Backrooms
as Meterman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Monster Trucks
as Used Car Lot Owner
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Order
as Sheriff Loftlin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Backrooms
as Meterman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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