Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2417
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rob Delaney 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.
Rob Delaney appears in 25 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rob. Deadpool & Wolverine 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 comedy, adventure, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Peter Atencio, Jacob Sluka, Sian Heder and others, Rob Delaney 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.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) as Peter · Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) as Andrew (voice) · Wrath of Man (2021) as Boss Blake Halls
Career snapshot
Ranked #2417 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
25
2014–2027
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
Deadpool & Wolverine
Average Nutevio score
5.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Ron's Gone Wrong
Most frequent director
David Leitch
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Comedy
16 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Bombshell, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Last Christmas — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 6 catalogue films 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
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bombshell, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Last Christmas.
Most productive era
2020s
19 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | 5.66 films |
| Action | 7.13 films | 7.13 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.84 films |
| Comedy | 6.85 films | 5.811 films |
| Crime | — | 7.61 film |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.82 films |
| Horror | 5.51 film | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2014Life After Beth
Where our catalogue meets this career, as News Anchor.
Career peak
2021Ron's Gone Wrong
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
7.8 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2027Animal Friends
The current state of the argument.
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.
25 of 25 films
as Andrew (voice)
Directed by Jean-Philippe Vine
as Peter
Directed by Shawn Levy
as Boss Blake Halls
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as JSOC
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
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
Andrew (voice)
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Andrew (voice) gives Rob Delaney a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Peter
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Performance score7.6
Deadpool & Wolverine asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Peter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Andrew Sullivan
Love at First Sight (2023)
Performance score7.6
Love at First Sight asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Andrew Sullivan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boss Blake Halls
Wrath of Man (2021)
Performance score7.4
Wrath of Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boss Blake Halls 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 Andrew (voice)
Start here. Ron's Gone Wrong is the clearest statement of what Rob Delaney does — accessible, 107 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rob 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.
Wrath of Man (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Ron's Gone Wrong — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love at First Sight (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Wrath of Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Love at First Sight — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Keeps the action register of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
3 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Paul Feig
Director
2 films together
Notably Last Christmas
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably Bombshell
Wallace Wolodarsky
Director
1 film together
Notably The Good House
Dan Mazer
Director
1 film together
Notably Home Sweet Home Alone
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Wrath of Man
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Tom & Jerry
Jean-Philippe Vine
Director
1 film together
Notably Ron's Gone Wrong
Judd Apatow
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bubble
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Deadpool & Wolverine
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Argylle
Chris Foggin
Director
1 film together
Notably Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
Travis Knight
Director
1 film together
Notably Wildwood
Sian Heder
Director
1 film together
Notably Being Heumann
Jacob Sluka
Director
1 film together
Notably Afternoon Super
Peter Atencio
Director
1 film together
Notably Animal Friends
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Paul Feig
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Last ChristmasShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deadpool & WolverineJean-Philippe Vine
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ron's Gone WrongGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wrath of ManChristopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part OneChris Foggin
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan RangerTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tom & JerryJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BombshellWallace Wolodarsky
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 Good HouseMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArgylleDan Mazer
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home Sweet Home AloneJudd Apatow
Director
1 film together · 4.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BubblePeter Atencio
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Animal FriendsJacob Sluka
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Afternoon SuperSian Heder
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Being HeumannTravis Knight
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WildwoodSix 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
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Peter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Love at First Sight
as Andrew Sullivan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Peter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Argylle
as Deputy Director Powell
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ron's Gone Wrong
as Andrew (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. Rob Delaney 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
16 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Peter
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Wrath of Man
as Boss Blake Halls
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Love at First Sight
as Andrew Sullivan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Wrath of Man
as Boss Blake Halls
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
as JSOC
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
as JSOC
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Good House
as Peter Newbold
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Peter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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