Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#14426
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Richard Grieco represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 30 years in, and Richard is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Richard Grieco appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Richard. The Devil’s Trap 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 thriller, horror, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Robert LaSardo, Jared Cohn, Tony Schiena and others, Richard Grieco 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.
The Devil’s Trap (2024) as Hospital Orderly · 22 Jump Street (2014) as Booker · A Night at the Roxbury (1998) as Richard Grieco
Career snapshot
Ranked #14426 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
1998–2028
Career length
30 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
The Devil’s Trap
Average Nutevio score
3.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
The Devil’s Trap
Most frequent director
Robert LaSardo
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Robert LaSardo
Most common genre
Horror
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 24m
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
6.3
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. 22 Jump Street — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
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. A Night at the Roxbury.
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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Action | — | 6.81 film | 3.84 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 2.43 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 6.81 film | 4.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film | — |
| Romance | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 4.35 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Richard Grieco.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024The Devil’s Trap
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
2028Manson's War
The current state of the argument, as Crowe.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Hospital Orderly
Directed by Unknown
as Nicholas
Directed by Noah Luke
as Booker
Directed by Phil Lord
as Richard Grieco
Directed by John Fortenberry
as Crowe
Directed by Robert LaSardo
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
Hospital Orderly
The Devil’s Trap (2024)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hospital Orderly gives Richard Grieco a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Nicholas
Jungle Run (2021)
Performance score6.7
Jungle Run asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nicholas is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Booker
22 Jump Street (2014)
Performance score6.7
22 Jump Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Booker is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Richard Grieco
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Performance score6.7
A Night at the Roxbury asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Richard Grieco 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 Hospital Orderly
Start here. The Devil’s Trap is the clearest statement of what Richard Grieco does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Richard 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 Night at the Roxbury (1998)
A deliberate change of key after The Devil’s Trap — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
22 Jump Street (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of A Night at the Roxbury but asks for a colder reading of it.
Jungle Run (2021)
Keeps the action register of 22 Jump Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
Manson's War (2028)
A deliberate change of key after Jungle Run — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Fortenberry
Director
1 film together
Notably A Night at the Roxbury
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably 22 Jump Street
Noah Luke
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungle Run
Tony Schiena
Director
1 film together
Notably The Weapon
Jared Cohn
Director
1 film together
Notably Vanished
Robert LaSardo
Director
1 film together
Notably Manson's War
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
22 Jump StreetJohn Fortenberry
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Night at the RoxburyNoah Luke
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jungle RunTony Schiena
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WeaponRobert LaSardo
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Manson's WarJared Cohn
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VanishedSix 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
The Devil’s Trap
as Hospital Orderly
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Night at the Roxbury
as Richard Grieco
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Devil’s Trap
as Hospital Orderly
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
22 Jump Street
as Booker
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Devil’s Trap
as Hospital Orderly
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. Richard Grieco 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
30 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in horror, 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
The Devil’s Trap
as Hospital Orderly
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Devil’s Trap
as Hospital Orderly
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Night at the Roxbury
as Richard Grieco
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Fort
as Aamon
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
22 Jump Street
as Booker
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jungle Run
as Nicholas
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Time Pirates
as Blackbeard
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Sanctus House
as Amare
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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