Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9208
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Reese Alexander 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.
Reese Alexander appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Reese. He's Not Worth Dying For is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 horror, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alejandro Brugués, J.C. Lee, Susanna Fogel and others, Reese Alexander 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.
He's Not Worth Dying For (2022) as Mark · Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021) as Dennis · Winner (2024) as Colin
Career snapshot
Ranked #9208 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2008–2024
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
He's Not Worth Dying For
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
He's Not Worth Dying For
Most frequent director
Martin Wood
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Martin Wood
Most common genre
Drama
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
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
6.2
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
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Inheritance, Bad Genius, Winner — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
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. The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Most productive era
2010s
14 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 | 5.71 film | 5.86 films | 7.14 films |
| Action | — | 5.57 films | — |
| Thriller | 5.71 film | 6.18 films | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | — | 5.44 films | 6.43 films |
| Crime | — | — | 7.41 film |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film | 6.43 films |
| Horror | — | 6.02 films | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2008The Day the Earth Stood Still
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sergeant.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.5 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
2024Winner
The current state of the argument, as Colin.
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.
24 of 24 films
as Dennis
Directed by Martin Wood
as Colin
Directed by Susanna Fogel
as Sheriff Metzger
Directed by Pat Williams
as Preston Brown
Directed by J.C. Lee
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
Mark
He's Not Worth Dying For (2022)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mark gives Reese Alexander a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dennis
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021)
Performance score7.2
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dennis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Colin
Winner (2024)
Performance score6.9
Winner asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Colin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sheriff Metzger
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2021)
Performance score6.8
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sheriff Metzger 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 Mark
Start here. He's Not Worth Dying For is the clearest statement of what Reese Alexander does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Reese 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.
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021)
Keeps the mystery register of He's Not Worth Dying For but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2021)
Keeps the mystery register of Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part but asks for a colder reading of it.
Winner (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bad Genius (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Winner but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Uwe Boll
Director
2 films together
Notably Assault on Wall Street
David Hackl
Director
2 films together
Notably Life on the Line
Martin Wood
Director
2 films together
Notably Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Stood Still
Evan Goldberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Interview
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Fifty Shades of Grey
Taran Killam
Director
1 film together
Notably Killing Gunther
Jim Donovan
Director
1 film together
Notably Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story
Jonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together
Notably Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls
Adam Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably Freaks
Joe Zanetti
Director
1 film together
Notably Killbird
Pat Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
Aubrey Arnason
Director
1 film together
Notably Baking Spirits Bright
Kevin Fair
Director
1 film together
Notably He's Not Worth Dying For
Susanna Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Winner
J.C. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Genius
Alejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together
Notably The Inheritance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Wood
Director
2 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us PartDavid Hackl
Director
2 films together · 5.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Life on the LineUwe Boll
Director
2 films together · 4.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Assault on Wall StreetKevin Fair
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
He's Not Worth Dying ForSusanna Fogel
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WinnerPat Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen MysteryJ.C. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad GeniusAdam Stein
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreaksJim Donovan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Abducted: The Mary Stauffer StoryEvan Goldberg
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InterviewSam Taylor-Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fifty Shades of GreyAubrey Arnason
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Baking Spirits BrightAlejandro Brugués
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InheritanceJoe Zanetti
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KillbirdScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day the Earth Stood StillTaran Killam
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killing GuntherJonathan A. Rosenbaum
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking BallsSix 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
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Mark
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Fifty Shades of Grey
as Elevator Business Man
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Mark
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Assault on Wall Street
as Broker
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Mark
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. Reese Alexander 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
11 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
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Mark
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Dennis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Fifty Shades of Grey
as Elevator Business Man
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
as Dennis
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
He's Not Worth Dying For
as Mark
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds
as Soldier #3
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Winner
as Colin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fifty Shades of Grey
as Elevator Business Man
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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