Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#62935
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Pierre Deladonchamps 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.
Pierre Deladonchamps appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Pierre. A Place for Her is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, adventure, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Christophe Barratier, Jean-Paul Salomé, Martin Bourboulon and others, Pierre Deladonchamps 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.
A Place for Her (2026) as Alexandre · Little Tickles (2018) as Gilbert Miguié · La Syndicaliste (2023) as Chief Warrant Officer Nicolas Brémont
Career snapshot
Ranked #62935 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2018–2027
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
A Place for Her
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
A Place for Her
Most frequent director
Christophe Barratier
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Christophe Barratier
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 16m
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
7.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Little Tickles — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.4
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.4
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. Little Tickles.
Most productive era
2020s
11 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 | 7.41 film | 5.67 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.33 films |
| Comedy | 7.41 film | 5.62 films |
| Crime | — | 4.03 films |
| Romance | — | 5.73 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2018Little Tickles
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gilbert Miguié.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026A Place for Her
8.3 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
2027Les Enfants de la Résistance : L'escalade
The current state of the argument, as Mayor.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Gilbert Miguié
Directed by Andréa Bescond
as Le maire
Directed by Christophe Barratier
as Chief Warrant Officer Nicolas Brémont
Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé
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
Alexandre
A Place for Her (2026)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Alexandre gives Pierre Deladonchamps a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gilbert Miguié
Little Tickles (2018)
Performance score7.5
Little Tickles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gilbert Miguié is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Le maire
The Children of the Resistance (2026)
Performance score7.0
The Children of the Resistance asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Le maire is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Djé
Rascal (2021)
Performance score7.0
Rascal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Djé 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 Alexandre
Start here. A Place for Her is the clearest statement of what Pierre Deladonchamps does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Pierre 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.
Little Tickles (2018)
Keeps the drama register of A Place for Her but asks for a colder reading of it.
Rascal (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Little Tickles — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
La Syndicaliste (2023)
Keeps the thriller register of Rascal but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Children of the Resistance (2026)
Keeps the drama register of La Syndicaliste but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christophe Barratier
Director
2 films together
Notably The Children of the Resistance
Andréa Bescond
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Tickles
Sylvie Verheyde
Director
1 film together
Notably Madame Claude
Martin Bourboulon
Director
1 film together
Notably Eiffel
Jean-Paul Salomé
Director
1 film together
Notably La Syndicaliste
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christophe Barratier
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
The Children of the ResistanceAndréa Bescond
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little TicklesJean-Paul Salomé
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
La SyndicalisteMartin Bourboulon
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EiffelSylvie Verheyde
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Madame ClaudeSix 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
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
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 Children of the Resistance
as Le maire
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
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. Pierre Deladonchamps 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 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
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Children of the Resistance
as Le maire
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
La Syndicaliste
as Chief Warrant Officer Nicolas Brémont
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
A Place for Her
as Alexandre
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Children of the Resistance
as Le maire
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Children of the Resistance
as Le maire
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Little Lesson in Love
as Mathieu
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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