Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6987
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Robert Maillet 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.
Robert Maillet appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robert. Deadpool 2 is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, horror. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Cody Calahan, Kyle Newacheck, David Leitch and others, Robert Maillet 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 2 (2018) as Sluggo · Sherlock Holmes (2009) as Dredger · 300 (2007) as Uber Immortal (Giant)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6987 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2007–2021
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Deadpool 2
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Deadpool 2
Most frequent director
David Leitch
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Action
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2000s
7.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Sherlock Holmes, 300 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.2
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. Sherlock Holmes, 300.
Most productive era
2010s
8 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 | — | 6.52 films | — |
| Action | 7.42 films | 6.76 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.83 films | 6.41 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.41 film |
| Horror | — | — | 6.42 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007300
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Uber Immortal (Giant).
Career peak
2009Sherlock Holmes
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2018Deadpool 2
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2021Vicious Fun
The current state of the argument, as Mike.
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 Sluggo
Directed by David Leitch
as Dredger
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Uber Immortal (Giant)
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Sluggo
Directed by David Leitch
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
Sluggo
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Sluggo gives Robert Maillet a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dredger
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Performance score7.5
Sherlock Holmes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dredger is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Uber Immortal (Giant)
300 (2007)
Performance score7.2
300 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Uber Immortal (Giant) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky
Pacific Rim (2013)
Performance score7.1
Pacific Rim asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky 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 Sluggo
Start here. Deadpool 2 is the clearest statement of what Robert Maillet does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Robert 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.
300 (2007)
Keeps the action register of Deadpool 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Keeps the action register of 300 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Pacific Rim (2013)
Keeps the action register of Sherlock Holmes but asks for a colder reading of it.
Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)
Keeps the action register of Pacific Rim but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably 300
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Sherlock Holmes
Tarsem Singh
Director
1 film together
Notably Immortals
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
1 film together
Notably The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Thor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together
Notably Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Pacific Rim
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Hercules
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Over, Man!
Cody Calahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Vicious Fun
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sherlock HolmesZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
300Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pacific RimJean-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. SpivetCody Calahan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Vicious FunThor Freudenthal
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Percy Jackson: Sea of MonstersTarsem Singh
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ImmortalsBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HerculesKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game Over, Man!Six 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 2
as Sluggo
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 Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Giant Hobo
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 2
as Sluggo
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
300
as Uber Immortal (Giant)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Deadpool 2
as Sluggo
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. Robert Maillet 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in action, 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
Sherlock Holmes
as Dredger
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Sherlock Holmes
as Dredger
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
as Giant Hobo
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Sherlock Holmes
as Dredger
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool 2
as Sluggo
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Deadpool 2
as Sluggo
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
300
as Uber Immortal (Giant)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Game Over, Man!
as Chet
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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