Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10888
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Robert Moloney represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Robert is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Robert Moloney appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robert. Mystery 101: Playing Dead is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 romance, comedy, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gail Harvey, Swinton O. Scott III, Stacey K. Black and others, Robert Moloney 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.
Mystery 101: Playing Dead (2019) as Vincent Cuddahy · The Revenant (2015) as Dave Chapman · The Age of Adaline (2015) as 1950s Financial Advisor
Career snapshot
Ranked #10888 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1998–2023
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Revenant
Most frequent director
Gail Harvey
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Gail Harvey
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.5
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
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mystery 101: Playing Dead, Brain on Fire, Power Rangers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
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. Disturbing Behavior.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | — | 7.33 films | 5.22 films |
| Action | — | 6.52 films | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.32 films |
| Romance | — | 7.51 film | 6.21 film |
| Horror | 5.81 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ferry Guy.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015The Revenant
7.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Quinn Lewis.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Dave Chapman
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
as 1950s Financial Advisor
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
as News Show Host
Directed by Zack Snyder
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
Vincent Cuddahy
Mystery 101: Playing Dead (2019)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vincent Cuddahy gives Robert Moloney a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dave Chapman
The Revenant (2015)
Performance score7.3
The Revenant asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dave Chapman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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1950s Financial Advisor
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Performance score7.3
The Age of Adaline asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. 1950s Financial Advisor is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Dr. Ryan
Brain on Fire (2017)
Performance score6.9
Brain on Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Ryan 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 Vincent Cuddahy
Start here. Mystery 101: Playing Dead is the clearest statement of what Robert Moloney does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.5 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.
Man of Steel (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Mystery 101: Playing Dead — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Revenant (2015)
Keeps the adventure register of Man of Steel but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Keeps the drama register of The Revenant but asks for a colder reading of it.
Brain on Fire (2017)
Keeps the drama register of The Age of Adaline but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Nutter
Director
1 film together
Notably Disturbing Behavior
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Man of Steel
Lee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together
Notably The Age of Adaline
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Revenant
Dean Israelite
Director
1 film together
Notably Power Rangers
Stacey K. Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Highway to Heaven
Swinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together
Notably Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Gail Harvey
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas on Cherry Lane
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The RevenantLee Toland Krieger
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Age of AdalineZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Man of SteelSwinton O. Scott III
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Diary of a Wimpy KidGail Harvey
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas on Cherry LaneDean Israelite
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Power RangersDavid Nutter
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Disturbing BehaviorStacey K. Black
Director
1 film together · 4.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Highway to HeavenSix 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 Age of Adaline
as 1950s Financial Advisor
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 Age of Adaline
as 1950s Financial Advisor
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 Revenant
as Dave Chapman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Man of Steel
as News Show Host
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
as Vincent Cuddahy
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 Moloney 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
25 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
5 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
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
as Vincent Cuddahy
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
as Vincent Cuddahy
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Age of Adaline
as 1950s Financial Advisor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
as Vincent Cuddahy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Revenant
as Dave Chapman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Man of Steel
as News Show Host
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Christmas on Cherry Lane
as Quinn Lewis
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
as Joshie (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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