Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1159
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Scott Speedman 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.
Scott Speedman appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Scott. The Vow is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 horror, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Cronenberg, Lena Dunham, Lina Roessler and others, Scott Speedman 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 Vow (2012) as Jeremy · Barney's Version (2010) as Boogie · Underworld (2003) as Michael Corvin
Career snapshot
Ranked #1159 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2000–2024
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
The Vow
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
The Vow
Most frequent director
Len Wiseman
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Len Wiseman
Most common genre
Drama
10 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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Barefoot, The Captive, Underworld: Awakening — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Underworld: Evolution, My Life Without Me, Underworld.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 6.03 films | 6.74 films | 5.13 films |
| Action | 6.82 films | 6.31 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.63 films | 5.91 film | 5.92 films |
| Comedy | 5.71 film | 6.82 films | 5.62 films |
| Crime | 6.31 film | 5.91 film | — |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 7.02 films | 4.91 film |
| Horror | — | 6.31 film | 5.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2000Duets
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Billy.
Career peak
2003Underworld
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2012The Vow
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2024Cellar Door
The current state of the argument, as John.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Jeremy
Directed by Michael Sucsy
as Michael Corvin
Directed by Len Wiseman
as Jay Wheeler
Directed by Andrew Fleming
as Boogie
Directed by Richard J. Lewis
as Michael Corvin
Directed by Len Wiseman
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
Jeremy
The Vow (2012)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Jeremy gives Scott Speedman a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Michael Corvin
Underworld (2003)
Performance score7.3
Underworld asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Michael Corvin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jay Wheeler
Barefoot (2014)
Performance score7.1
Barefoot asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jay Wheeler is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boogie
Barney's Version (2010)
Performance score7.1
Barney's Version asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boogie 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 Jeremy
Start here. The Vow is the clearest statement of what Scott Speedman does — accessible, 104 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Scott 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.
Underworld (2003)
A deliberate change of key after The Vow — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Same director as Underworld, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Barney's Version (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Underworld: Evolution — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Barefoot (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Barney's Version but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Len Wiseman
Director
2 films together
Notably Underworld
Bruce Paltrow
Director
1 film together
Notably Duets
Ron Shelton
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Blue
Isabel Coixet
Director
1 film together
Notably My Life Without Me
Richard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together
Notably Barney's Version
Michael Sucsy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Vow
Björn Stein
Director
1 film together
Notably Underworld: Awakening
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Captive
Andrew Fleming
Director
1 film together
Notably Barefoot
Ricky Tollman
Director
1 film together
Notably Run This Town
Lina Roessler
Director
1 film together
Notably Best Sellers
Lena Dunham
Director
1 film together
Notably Sharp Stick
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Crimes of the Future
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Len Wiseman
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
UnderworldMichael Sucsy
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VowRichard J. Lewis
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Barney's VersionAndrew Fleming
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarefootLina Roessler
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Best SellersBjörn Stein
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Underworld: AwakeningRon Shelton
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark BlueIsabel Coixet
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Life Without MeDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crimes of the FutureAtom Egoyan
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 CaptiveBruce Paltrow
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DuetsLena Dunham
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sharp StickRicky Tollman
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Run This TownSix 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
Barney's Version
as Boogie
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 Vow
as Jeremy
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 Vow
as Jeremy
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Underworld: Awakening
as Michael (archive footage) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Vow
as Jeremy
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. Scott Speedman 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
24 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
10 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
Underworld
as Michael Corvin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Underworld
as Michael Corvin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Vow
as Jeremy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Dark Blue
as Bobby Keough
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Underworld
as Michael Corvin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Underworld: Awakening
as Michael (archive footage) (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Barefoot
as Jay Wheeler
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Captive
as Jeffrey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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