Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4358
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rick Gonzalez 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.
Rick Gonzalez appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rick. Predator: Killer of Killers is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 action, science fiction, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dan Trachtenberg, Steven Conrad, Gavin O'Connor and others, Rick Gonzalez 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.
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) as Torres (voice) · Coach Carter (2005) as Timo Cruz · In the Valley of Elah (2007) as Phone Technician
Career snapshot
Ranked #4358 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2001–2025
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Predator: Killer of Killers
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Predator: Killer of Killers
Most frequent director
Dan Trachtenberg
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Dan Trachtenberg
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
7.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Predator: Killer of Killers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.8
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 Promotion, Pride and Glory, In the Valley of Elah.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 2000s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.36 films | — |
| Action | 6.31 film | 7.81 film |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 7.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.74 films | — |
| Crime | 6.52 films | — |
| Romance | 5.91 film | — |
| Horror | 5.11 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gang Banger.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2025Predator: Killer of Killers
7.8 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. The current state of the argument, as Torres (voice).
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.
12 of 12 films
as Torres (voice)
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg
as Timo Cruz
Directed by Thomas Carter
as Vincent
Directed by Steven Spielberg
as Phone Technician
Directed by Paul Haggis
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
Torres (voice)
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Torres (voice) gives Rick Gonzalez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Timo Cruz
Coach Carter (2005)
Performance score7.6
Coach Carter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Timo Cruz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vincent
War of the Worlds (2005)
Performance score6.8
War of the Worlds asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vincent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Phone Technician
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Performance score6.7
In the Valley of Elah asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Phone Technician 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 Torres (voice)
Start here. Predator: Killer of Killers is the clearest statement of what Rick Gonzalez does — accessible, 85 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rick 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.
Old School (2003)
A deliberate change of key after Predator: Killer of Killers — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Coach Carter (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Old School — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
War of the Worlds (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Coach Carter — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Keeps the thriller register of War of the Worlds but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Simon Wincer
Director
1 film together
Notably Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Lisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together
Notably Laurel Canyon
Reggie Rock Bythewood
Director
1 film together
Notably Biker Boyz
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Old School
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably War of the Worlds
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably Coach Carter
Christopher Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably For Your Consideration
Paul Haggis
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Valley of Elah
Gavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together
Notably Pride and Glory
Steven Conrad
Director
1 film together
Notably The Promotion
Dan Trachtenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Predator: Killer of Killers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dan Trachtenberg
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Predator: Killer of KillersThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Coach CarterPaul Haggis
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Valley of ElahSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War of the WorldsTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old SchoolGavin O'Connor
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pride and GloryReggie Rock Bythewood
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Biker BoyzLisa Cholodenko
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Laurel CanyonChristopher Guest
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Your ConsiderationSteven Conrad
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PromotionSimon Wincer
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crocodile Dundee in Los AngelesSix 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
Coach Carter
as Timo Cruz
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Coach Carter
as Timo Cruz
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Torres (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
For Your Consideration
as Chillaxin' Host
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Torres (voice)
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. Rick Gonzalez 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
24 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
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Torres (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Torres (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Laurel Canyon
as Wyatt
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
In the Valley of Elah
as Phone Technician
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Torres (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Predator: Killer of Killers
as Torres (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Coach Carter
as Timo Cruz
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
For Your Consideration
as Chillaxin' Host
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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