Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2452
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Roger Cross represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Roger is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Roger Cross appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roger. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest case: a film rated 7.9 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, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Joachim Rønning, Dolph Lundgren, Jeff Wamester and others, Roger Cross 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.
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice) · War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) as Captain · DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020) as Foreman (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2452 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1993–2025
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.9
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Most frequent director
Joachim Rønning
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Joachim Rønning
Most common genre
Action
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 36m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
6.6
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
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. TRON: Ares, Wanted Man, Justice League: Warworld — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 6 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
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Double Jeopardy, Look Who's Talking Now!.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.02 films | 7.21 film | — |
| Action | — | 6.14 films | — | 6.96 films |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 5.53 films | — | — |
| Comedy | 5.41 film | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Crime | 6.61 film | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Romance | 5.41 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Pilot.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
7.9 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
2025TRON: Ares
The current state of the argument, as Cross.
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.
16 of 16 films
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
Directed by Matt Peters
as Captain
Directed by Matt Reeves
as Foreman (voice)
Directed by Brandon Vietti
as Foreman (voice)
Directed by Butch Lukic
as Oval Office Agent Cartwright
Directed by Bryan Singer
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
John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice) gives Roger Cross a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Performance score7.1
War for the Planet of the Apes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Foreman (voice)
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
Performance score7.0
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Foreman (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Foreman (voice)
DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020)
Performance score6.9
DC Showcase: Adam Strange asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Foreman (voice) 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 John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
Start here. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the clearest statement of what Roger Cross does — accessible, 90 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Roger 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.
X2 (2003)
Keeps the action register of Justice League Dark: Apokolips War but asks for a colder reading of it.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Keeps the science fiction register of X2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)
A deliberate change of key after War for the Planet of the Apes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020)
Keeps the action register of DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Bruce Beresford
Director
1 film together
Notably Double Jeopardy
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X2
David Twohy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Chronicles of Riddick
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably World Trade Center
Scott Derrickson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Stood Still
Callie Khouri
Director
1 film together
Notably Mad Money
Matt Reeves
Director
1 film together
Notably War for the Planet of the Apes
Butch Lukic
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Adam Strange
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Jeff Wamester
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: Warworld
Dolph Lundgren
Director
1 film together
Notably Wanted Man
Joachim Rønning
Director
1 film together
Notably TRON: Ares
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Peters
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League Dark: Apokolips WarMatt Reeves
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War for the Planet of the ApesBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilyBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X2Jeff Wamester
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: WarworldDavid Twohy
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Chronicles of RiddickBruce Beresford
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Double JeopardyJoachim Rønning
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TRON: AresDolph Lundgren
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wanted ManCallie Khouri
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mad MoneyButch Lukic
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: Adam StrangeOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
World Trade CenterScott Derrickson
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day the Earth Stood StillSix 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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
World Trade Center
as Will's Doctor
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
World Trade Center
as Will's Doctor
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (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. Roger Cross 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
32 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
10 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
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
World Trade Center
as Will's Doctor
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Double Jeopardy
as Hotel Manager
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice) / Swamp Thing (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
War for the Planet of the Apes
as Captain
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
World Trade Center
as Will's Doctor
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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