Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7222
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Roger Yuan represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 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 Yuan appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Roger. Dune: Part Two is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 sci-fi, adventure, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Denis Villeneuve, Michael Jai White, Niki Caro and others, Roger Yuan 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.
Dune: Part Two (2024) as Lanville · Dune: Part Two (2024) as Lanville · Dune (2021) as Lieutenant Lanville
Career snapshot
Ranked #7222 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
1991–2024
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Dune: Part Two
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
Dune: Part Two
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Action
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
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
6.9
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
7.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Dune: Part Two, Dune: Part Two, Outlaw Johnny Black — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Dune: Part Two, Dune: Part Two, Outlaw Johnny Black.
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 | — | 7.22 films | — | 9.01 film |
| Action | 5.84 films | 6.93 films | 6.83 films | 6.33 films |
| Thriller | 6.02 films | 6.41 film | 6.82 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.52 films | 6.33 films | 6.31 film | 6.12 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | — | 9.01 film |
| Crime | 6.52 films | 8.01 film | 6.31 film | — |
| Horror | 5.51 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kickboxer #2.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Dune: Part Two
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2024Dune: Part Two
The current state of the argument, as Lanville.
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.
19 of 19 films
as Lanville
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Lanville
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Lieutenant Lanville
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Hazmat Technician
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Severine's Bodyguard
Directed by Sam Mendes
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 18 of 18 titles · 18 total credits · active 1991–2024
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Lanville
Outlaw Johnny Black
2023 · Lee
Dune
2021 · Lieutenant Lanville
Mulan
2020 · Duba Tegin
The Paper Tigers
2020 · Sifu Cheung
Venom
2018 · Village Eel Shop Owner
Accident Man
2018 · Swordmaster
Skyfall
2012 · Severine's Bodyguard
Black Dynamite
2009 · Fiendish Dr. Wu
Batman Begins
2005 · Hazmat Technician
Syriana
2005 · Chinese Engineer
Home on the Range
2004 · Additional Voices (voice)
Bulletproof Monk
2003 · Master Monk
Shanghai Noon
2000 · Lo Fong
Lethal Weapon 4
1998 · Chu
Spawn
1997 · Korean Soldier (uncredited)
Double Dragon
1994 · Ninja Wraith
Showdown in Little Tokyo
1991 · Kickboxer #2
The defining work
#1
Lanville
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lanville gives Roger Yuan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lanville
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Performance score7.9
Dune: Part Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lanville is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lieutenant Lanville
Dune (2021)
Performance score7.8
Dune asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lieutenant Lanville is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hazmat Technician
Batman Begins (2005)
Performance score7.8
Batman Begins asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hazmat Technician 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 Lanville
Start here. Dune: Part Two is the clearest statement of what Roger Yuan does — accessible, 166 minutes, and rated 9.0 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.
Batman Begins (2005)
Keeps the drama register of Dune: Part Two but asks for a colder reading of it.
Skyfall (2012)
Keeps the action register of Batman Begins but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dune (2021)
Keeps the adventure register of Skyfall but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Same director as Dune, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
3 films together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Mark L. Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably Showdown in Little Tokyo
Richard Donner
Director
1 film together
Notably Lethal Weapon 4
Paul Hunter
Director
1 film together
Notably Bulletproof Monk
Will Finn
Director
1 film together
Notably Home on the Range
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Syriana
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman Begins
Sam Mendes
Director
1 film together
Notably Skyfall
Jesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Accident Man
Ruben Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Venom
Niki Caro
Director
1 film together
Notably Mulan
Michael Jai White
Director
1 film together
Notably Outlaw Johnny Black
Timothée Chalamet
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Zendaya
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Rebecca Ferguson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Javier Bardem
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Josh Brolin
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Austin Butler
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Stellan Skarsgård
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Charlotte Rampling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Dune: Part Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
3 films together · 8.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dune: Part TwoChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman BeginsSam Mendes
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SkyfallNiki Caro
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MulanRuben Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VenomRichard Donner
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lethal Weapon 4Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SyrianaMark L. Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Showdown in Little TokyoJesse V. Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Accident ManWill Finn
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Home on the RangeMichael Jai White
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Outlaw Johnny BlackPaul Hunter
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bulletproof MonkSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2025
Dune: Part Two
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Home on the Range
as Additional Voices (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Batman Begins
as Hazmat Technician
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
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 Yuan has known it for a long time.”
“Long live the fighters.”
“I will love you as long as I breathe.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.2 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #179 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Physical performance | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2024–2024 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Lanville — Dune: Part Two | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Dune: Part Two | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Best Space Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Timothée Chalamet · Florence Pugh
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
33 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
13 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
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Home on the Range
as Additional Voices (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Outlaw Johnny Black
as Lee
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Dune: Part Two
as Lanville
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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