Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#44764
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Ramsey Faragallah represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 29 years in, and Ramsey is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ramsey Faragallah appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ramsey. Uptown Girls is the clearest case: a film rated 7.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, action, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rupert Wyatt, Sydney Pollack, Boaz Yakin and others, Ramsey Faragallah 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.
Uptown Girls (2003) as Limo Driver · Our Son (2023) as Judge Reynolds · The Interpreter (2005) as Polygraph Technician
Career snapshot
Ranked #44764 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1997–2026
Career length
29 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.0
Uptown Girls
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.0
Uptown Girls
Most frequent director
Rupert Wyatt
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Rupert Wyatt
Most common genre
Drama
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
6.4
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
2000s
6.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. The Greatest, The Interpreter, Uptown Girls — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.2
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.2
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 Peacemaker.
Most productive era
2000s
4 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 | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.13 films | 6.31 film |
| Action | 6.11 film | — | 5.81 film |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 5.82 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1997The Peacemaker
Where our catalogue meets this career, as New York Cabbie.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2003Uptown Girls
7.0 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
2026Desert Warrior
The current state of the argument, as Ibn Qabisah.
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 Limo Driver
Directed by Boaz Yakin
as Ibn Qabisah
Directed by Rupert Wyatt
as Polygraph Technician
Directed by Sydney Pollack
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
Limo Driver
Uptown Girls (2003)
Performance score6.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Limo Driver gives Ramsey Faragallah a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ibn Qabisah
Desert Warrior (2026)
Performance score6.5
Desert Warrior asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ibn Qabisah is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Judge Reynolds
Our Son (2023)
Performance score6.5
Our Son asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Judge Reynolds is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dr. Shamban
The Greatest (2009)
Performance score6.5
The Greatest asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Shamban 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 Limo Driver
Start here. Uptown Girls is the clearest statement of what Ramsey Faragallah does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ramsey 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 Interpreter (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Uptown Girls — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Greatest (2009)
A deliberate change of key after The Interpreter — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Our Son (2023)
Same director as The Greatest, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Desert Warrior (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Our Son — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mimi Leder
Director
1 film together
Notably The Peacemaker
Daniel Algrant
Director
1 film together
Notably People I Know
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together
Notably Uptown Girls
Sydney Pollack
Director
1 film together
Notably The Interpreter
Rupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together
Notably Desert Warrior
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Uptown GirlsSydney Pollack
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InterpreterMimi Leder
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PeacemakerRupert Wyatt
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Desert WarriorDaniel Algrant
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
People I KnowSix 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
Uptown Girls
as Limo Driver
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 Greatest
as Dr. Shamban
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Uptown Girls
as Limo Driver
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Interpreter
as Polygraph Technician
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Uptown Girls
as Limo Driver
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. Ramsey Faragallah 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
29 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.
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
Uptown Girls
as Limo Driver
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Interpreter
as Polygraph Technician
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Greatest
as Dr. Shamban
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Interpreter
as Polygraph Technician
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Peacemaker
as New York Cabbie
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Peacemaker
as New York Cabbie
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Desert Warrior
as Ibn Qabisah
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Peacemaker
as New York Cabbie
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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