Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#41344
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Richard Jutras represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 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 Jutras appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Richard. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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 comedy, drama, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kristoffer Borgli, Lee Daniels, Edward Zwick and others, Richard Jutras 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 Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) as Lecturer · Dream Scenario (2023) as Jean · Pawn Sacrifice (2015) as Referee - Santa Monica
Career snapshot
Ranked #41344 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Average Nutevio score
5.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.9
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Most frequent director
Kristoffer Borgli
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kristoffer Borgli
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
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
2000s
6.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. I'm Not There, Secret Window, The Whole Nine Yards — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.6
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
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. I'm Not There, Secret Window, The Whole Nine Yards.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 6.51 film | 6.82 films | 4.23 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.71 film | — |
| Comedy | 6.61 film | 6.11 film | 3.42 films |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Agent Morrissey.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2013The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
6.8 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
2026Les oubliés
The current state of the argument, as Curé.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Lecturer
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
as Jean
Directed by Kristoffer Borgli
as Referee - Santa Monica
Directed by Edward Zwick
as Motel Manager
Directed by David Koepp
as Agent Morrissey
Directed by Jonathan Lynn
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
Lecturer
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lecturer gives Richard Jutras a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jean
Dream Scenario (2023)
Performance score6.6
Dream Scenario asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jean is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Referee - Santa Monica
Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
Performance score6.6
Pawn Sacrifice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Referee - Santa Monica is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Motel Manager
Secret Window (2004)
Performance score6.6
Secret Window asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Motel Manager 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 Lecturer
Start here. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is the clearest statement of what Richard Jutras does — accessible, 105 minutes, and rated 6.8 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.
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
A deliberate change of key after The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Secret Window (2004)
A deliberate change of key after The Whole Nine Yards — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
Keeps the thriller register of Secret Window but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dream Scenario (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Pawn Sacrifice — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Whole Nine Yards
David Koepp
Director
1 film together
Notably Secret Window
Todd Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably I'm Not There
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Mirror Mirror
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Pawn Sacrifice
Lee Daniels
Director
1 film together
Notably The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Kristoffer Borgli
Director
1 film together
Notably Dream Scenario
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Young and Prodigious T.S. SpivetKristoffer Borgli
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dream ScenarioEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pawn SacrificeDavid Koepp
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Secret WindowJonathan Lynn
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Whole Nine YardsLee Daniels
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The United States vs. Billie HolidayTodd Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
I'm Not ThereTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mirror MirrorSix 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 United States vs. Billie Holiday
as Uptown Restaurant Maître d'
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 United States vs. Billie Holiday
as Uptown Restaurant Maître d'
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 Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Lecturer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
I'm Not There
as Reporter #1
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Lecturer
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 Jutras 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
26 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
6 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
Secret Window
as Motel Manager
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Secret Window
as Motel Manager
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
as Uptown Restaurant Maître d'
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Secret Window
as Motel Manager
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Lecturer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Lecturer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
as Uptown Restaurant Maître d'
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Death of a Ladies' Man
as Donny the Bartender
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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