Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1669
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Robert Pralgo 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 Pralgo appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Robert. Avengers: Infinity War is the clearest case: a film rated 8.5 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 comedy, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Michael Tiddes, Rachel Feldman, David Frankel and others, Robert Pralgo 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.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Thanos Reader · The Blind Side (2009) as Lemming's Associate · Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) as Tyler's Dad
Career snapshot
Ranked #1669 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.5
Avengers: Infinity War
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Avengers: Infinity War
Most frequent director
Michael Tiddes
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Michael Tiddes
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.5
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
2020s
7.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Scary Movie, Lilly, Jerry & Marge Go Large — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.0
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.9
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. 12 Rounds, The Blind Side.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | 7.71 film | 6.36 films | 7.12 films |
| Action | 5.91 film | 7.14 films | 7.41 film |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | 5.94 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.27 films | 7.12 films |
| Crime | 5.91 film | 7.12 films | — |
| Romance | — | 7.11 film | 6.71 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
200912 Rounds
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Camouflaged Agent.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.5 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
2026Scary Movie
The current state of the argument, as Psych Ward Doctor.
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.
22 of 22 films
as Thanos Reader
Directed by Anthony Russo
as Lemming's Associate
Directed by John Lee Hancock
as Ross Agent
Directed by Cate Shortland
as St. Luke's Doctor
Directed by Clint Eastwood
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
Thanos Reader
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Thanos Reader gives Robert Pralgo a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lemming's Associate
The Blind Side (2009)
Performance score7.5
The Blind Side asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lemming's Associate is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tyler's Dad
Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)
Performance score7.2
Jerry & Marge Go Large asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tyler's Dad is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ross Agent
Black Widow (2021)
Performance score7.2
Black Widow asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ross Agent 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 Thanos Reader
Start here. Avengers: Infinity War is the clearest statement of what Robert Pralgo does — accessible, 149 minutes, and rated 8.5 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.
The Blind Side (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Avengers: Infinity War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Sully (2016)
Keeps the drama register of The Blind Side but asks for a colder reading of it.
Black Widow (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Sully — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Black Widow — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Clint Eastwood
Director
2 films together
Notably Sully
Michael Tiddes
Director
2 films together
Notably Scary Movie
John Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together
Notably The Blind Side
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably 12 Rounds
Derrick Borte
Director
1 film together
Notably The Joneses
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Furious 7
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boss
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Ride Along 2
Richie Keen
Director
1 film together
Notably Fist Fight
Doug Liman
Director
1 film together
Notably American Made
Lawrence Sher
Director
1 film together
Notably Father Figures
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Avengers: Infinity War
Dawn Wilkinson
Director
1 film together
Notably A Nashville Christmas Carol
Cate Shortland
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Widow
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably Jerry & Marge Go Large
Rachel Feldman
Director
1 film together
Notably Lilly
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Tiddes
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Scary MovieClint Eastwood
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SullyAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Avengers: Infinity WarJohn Lee Hancock
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Blind SideDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jerry & Marge Go LargeCate Shortland
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black WidowJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furious 7Doug Liman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American MadeRachel Feldman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LillyDawn Wilkinson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Nashville Christmas CarolTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ride Along 2Derrick Borte
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 JonesesRichie Keen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fist FightRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
12 RoundsLawrence Sher
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Father FiguresBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The BossSix 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
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
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 Leisure Seeker
as Phillip
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
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 Pralgo 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
9 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
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Leisure Seeker
as Phillip
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Full Count
as Dr Adams
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos Reader
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Black Widow
as Ross Agent
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Made
as Gary (Cubicle Mate)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Scary Movie
as Psych Ward Doctor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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