Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2471
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Rory Cochrane represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Rory is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rory Cochrane appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rory. Tyson's Run 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, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kim Bass, Scott Cooper, Yann Demange and others, Rory Cochrane 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.
Tyson's Run (2022) as Bobby Hollerman · Argo (2012) as Lee Schatz · Dazed and Confused (1993) as Slater
Career snapshot
Ranked #2471 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1993–2025
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Tyson's Run
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Tyson's Run
Most frequent director
Scott Cooper
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Scott Cooper
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 52m
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
6.7
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
1990s
6.9 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Empire Records, Dazed and Confused — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.9
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.0
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. Empire Records, Dazed and Confused.
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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.92 films | 6.62 films | 6.57 films | 6.84 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.81 film | 7.31 film | 6.63 films |
| Comedy | 6.92 films | — | — | — |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film | 6.34 films | 6.72 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.51 film | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Slater.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Tyson's Run
7.7 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
2025King Ivory
The current state of the argument, as Beatty.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Bobby Hollerman
Directed by Kim Bass
as Lee Schatz
Directed by Ben Affleck
as Master Sergeant Thomas Metz
Directed by Scott Cooper
as Beatty
Directed by Unknown
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
Bobby Hollerman
Tyson's Run (2022)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Bobby Hollerman gives Rory Cochrane a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Slater
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Performance score7.4
Dazed and Confused asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Slater is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lee Schatz
Argo (2012)
Performance score7.2
Argo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lee Schatz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Master Sergeant Thomas Metz
Hostiles (2017)
Performance score7.1
Hostiles asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Master Sergeant Thomas Metz 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 Bobby Hollerman
Start here. Tyson's Run is the clearest statement of what Rory Cochrane does — accessible, 103 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rory 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.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Keeps the drama register of Tyson's Run but asks for a colder reading of it.
Argo (2012)
Keeps the drama register of Dazed and Confused but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hostiles (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Argo but asks for a colder reading of it.
King Ivory (2025)
Keeps the drama register of Hostiles but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Scott Cooper
Director
3 films together
Notably Hostiles
Richard Linklater
Director
2 films together
Notably Dazed and Confused
Allan Moyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Empire Records
Gregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together
Notably Hart's War
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Public Enemies
Ben Affleck
Director
1 film together
Notably Argo
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Parkland
Mike Flanagan
Director
1 film together
Notably Oculus
Tommy O'Haver
Director
1 film together
Notably The Most Hated Woman in America
Yann Demange
Director
1 film together
Notably White Boy Rick
Kim Bass
Director
1 film together
Notably Tyson's Run
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Scott Cooper
Director
3 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
HostilesRichard Linklater
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Dazed and ConfusedKim Bass
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tyson's RunBen Affleck
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ArgoMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Public EnemiesAllan Moyle
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Empire RecordsMike Flanagan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OculusYann Demange
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Boy RickGregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hart's WarTommy O'Haver
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 Most Hated Woman in AmericaPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParklandSix 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
Tyson's Run
as Bobby Hollerman
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Empire Records
as Lucas
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Tyson's Run
as Bobby Hollerman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Black Mass
as Stephen Flemmi
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Tyson's Run
as Bobby Hollerman
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. Rory Cochrane 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
15 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
Tyson's Run
as Bobby Hollerman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
King Ivory
as Beatty
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Empire Records
as Lucas
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Outsider
as Anthony Panetti
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hostiles
as Master Sergeant Thomas Metz
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hostiles
as Master Sergeant Thomas Metz
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Empire Records
as Lucas
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Public Enemies
as Agent Carter Baum
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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