Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17949
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Randall Newsome 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.
Randall Newsome appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Randall. Hidden Figures is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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 drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jon Erwin, Regina King, Dean Devlin and others, Randall Newsome 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.
Hidden Figures (2016) as Russian Scientist · One Night in Miami... (2020) as Myron Cohen · Jesus Revolution (2023) as Roger Hersh
Career snapshot
Ranked #17949 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2002–2023
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Hidden Figures
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Hidden Figures
Most frequent director
Jon Erwin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jon Erwin
Most common genre
Drama
8 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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Jesus Revolution, One Night in Miami... — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. Love Happens, W., Big Fat Liar.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.02 films | 6.74 films | 7.02 films |
| Action | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 6.32 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.41 film | — |
| Romance | 5.81 film | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Big Fat Liar
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Photographer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Hidden Figures
8.2 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
2023Jesus Revolution
The current state of the argument, as Roger Hersh.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Russian Scientist
Directed by Theodore Melfi
as Roger Hersh
Directed by Jon Erwin
as Vice President Miller
Directed by Dean Devlin
as TV Host
Directed by Ken Kwapis
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
Russian Scientist
Hidden Figures (2016)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Russian Scientist gives Randall Newsome a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Myron Cohen
One Night in Miami... (2020)
Performance score6.9
One Night in Miami... asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Myron Cohen is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roger Hersh
Jesus Revolution (2023)
Performance score6.8
Jesus Revolution asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roger Hersh is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vice President Miller
Geostorm (2017)
Performance score6.5
Geostorm asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vice President Miller 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 Russian Scientist
Start here. Hidden Figures is the clearest statement of what Randall Newsome does — accessible, 127 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Randall 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.
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Hidden Figures but asks for a colder reading of it.
Geostorm (2017)
A deliberate change of key after A Walk in the Woods — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
One Night in Miami... (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Geostorm — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jesus Revolution (2023)
Keeps the drama register of One Night in Miami... but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Big Fat Liar
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably W.
Glenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together
Notably I Love You Phillip Morris
Rod Lurie
Director
1 film together
Notably Straw Dogs
Ken Kwapis
Director
1 film together
Notably A Walk in the Woods
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together
Notably Hidden Figures
Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Geostorm
Regina King
Director
1 film together
Notably One Night in Miami...
Jon Erwin
Director
1 film together
Notably Jesus Revolution
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Theodore Melfi
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hidden FiguresRegina King
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Night in Miami...Jon Erwin
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jesus RevolutionGlenn Ficarra
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I Love You Phillip MorrisOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
W.Dean Devlin
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GeostormKen Kwapis
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Walk in the WoodsRod Lurie
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Straw DogsShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Big Fat LiarSix 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
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I Love You Phillip Morris
as Cop
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
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. Randall Newsome 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
21 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
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
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
One Night in Miami...
as Myron Cohen
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Geostorm
as Vice President Miller
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
I Love You Phillip Morris
as Cop
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hidden Figures
as Russian Scientist
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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