Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1937
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sam Hazeldine 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.
Sam Hazeldine appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sam. The Last Duel is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 Padraic McKinley, Michiel van Erp, Ridley Scott and others, Sam Hazeldine 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.
The Last Duel (2021) as Thomin Dubois · A Beautiful Imperfection (2024) as Jamieson · Elizabeth Is Missing (2019) as Tom Horsham
Career snapshot
Ranked #1937 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
The Last Duel
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Last Duel
Most frequent director
Padraic McKinley
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Padraic McKinley
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.3
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
2000s
6.2 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.2
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.2
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. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.63 films | 5.34 films |
| Action | — | 6.05 films | 5.11 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.93 films | 3.72 films |
| Comedy | 6.21 film | 6.52 films | 5.11 film |
| Crime | — | 5.93 films | 0.01 film |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 5.91 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Journalist.
Highest rated performance
2021The Last Duel
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Weight
The current state of the argument, as Amis.
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.
14 of 14 films
as William Hawkin
Directed by Unknown
as Thomin Dubois
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Tom Horsham
Directed by Aisling Walsh
as Garrett
Directed by Patrick Hughes
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
Jamieson
A Beautiful Imperfection (2024)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jamieson gives Sam Hazeldine a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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William Hawkin
The War Below (2021)
Performance score7.4
The War Below asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. William Hawkin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thomin Dubois
The Last Duel (2021)
Performance score7.2
The Last Duel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thomin Dubois is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tom Horsham
Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Performance score7.2
Elizabeth Is Missing asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tom Horsham 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 Jamieson
Start here. A Beautiful Imperfection is the clearest statement of what Sam Hazeldine does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sam 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 Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
A deliberate change of key after A Beautiful Imperfection — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Hitman's Bodyguard — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The War Below (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Elizabeth Is Missing but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Last Duel (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The War Below but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolfman
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Monuments Men
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Grimsby
Dennis Gansel
Director
1 film together
Notably Mechanic: Resurrection
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Huntsman: Winter's War
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hitman's Bodyguard
Aisling Walsh
Director
1 film together
Notably Elizabeth Is Missing
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Duel
Michiel van Erp
Director
1 film together
Notably A Beautiful Imperfection
Padraic McKinley
Director
1 film together
Notably The Weight
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last DuelMichiel van Erp
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Beautiful ImperfectionAisling Walsh
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Elizabeth Is MissingPatrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hitman's BodyguardCedric Nicolas-Troyan
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Huntsman: Winter's WarDennis Gansel
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mechanic: ResurrectionGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Monuments MenLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GrimsbyJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WolfmanPadraic McKinley
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WeightSix 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 Last Duel
as Thomin Dubois
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 Last Duel
as Thomin Dubois
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 Last Duel
as Thomin Dubois
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Journalist
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Beautiful Imperfection
as Jamieson
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. Sam Hazeldine 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
22 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
7 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
Elizabeth Is Missing
as Tom Horsham
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as Garrett
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Last Duel
as Thomin Dubois
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Elizabeth Is Missing
as Tom Horsham
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as Garrett
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as Leifr
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Last Duel
as Thomin Dubois
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The War Below
as William Hawkin
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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