Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#13606
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Philip Philmar represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Philip is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Philip Philmar appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Philip. No Time to Die 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 comedy, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Burton, Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Cary Joji Fukunaga and others, Philip Philmar 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.
No Time to Die (2021) as Spectre Agent · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) as Mr. Fogg · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) as Slugworth
Career snapshot
Ranked #13606 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1999–2024
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
No Time to Die
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
No Time to Die
Most frequent director
Tim Burton
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Tim Burton
Most common genre
Adventure
7 titles
Average runtime
2h 6m
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
6.6
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
7.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.2
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.51 film | 7.21 film | 5.91 film | 6.41 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | — | 6.22 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 6.52 films |
| Comedy | — | 7.21 film | — | 6.72 films |
| Romance | — | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Horror | — | 7.21 film | — | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Where our catalogue meets this career, as an english judge.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021No Time to Die
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
2024Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
The current state of the argument, as Officer Gilbraith.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Spectre Agent
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
as Slugworth
Directed by Tim Burton
as Hooded Pagan
Directed by Tim Burton
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The defining work
#1
Spectre Agent
No Time to Die (2021)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Spectre Agent gives Philip Philmar a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mr. Fogg
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Performance score7.1
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Fogg is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Slugworth
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Performance score7.1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Slugworth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hooded Pagan
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Performance score6.8
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hooded Pagan 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 Spectre Agent
Start here. No Time to Die is the clearest statement of what Philip Philmar does — accessible, 163 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.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Keeps the adventure register of No Time to Die but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Same director as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Same director as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Same director as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tim Burton
Director
4 films together
Notably Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together
Notably John Carter
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack the Giant Slayer
Patty Jenkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Wonder Woman 1984
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably No Time to Die
Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Director
1 film together
Notably Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tim Burton
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetCary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
No Time to DieLuc Besson
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 Messenger: The Story of Joan of ArcPatty 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 1984Andrew Stanton
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John CarterBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack the Giant SlayerRhys Frake-Waterfield
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2Six 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
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Mr. Fogg
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Magic Mike's Last Dance
as Lead Bureaucrat
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Slugworth
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as an english judge
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
No Time to Die
as Spectre Agent
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 Philmar 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
25 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Slugworth
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
No Time to Die
as Spectre Agent
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Magic Mike's Last Dance
as Lead Bureaucrat
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
as Mr. Archer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
No Time to Die
as Spectre Agent
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
No Time to Die
as Spectre Agent
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Magic Mike's Last Dance
as Lead Bureaucrat
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
as Slugworth
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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