Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17122
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Scotty Leavenworth works on quiet performance 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.
Scotty Leavenworth appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Scotty. The Green Mile is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, fantasy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Richard Kelly, Frank Darabont, Irwin Winkler and others, Scotty Leavenworth 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 Green Mile (1999) as Hammersmith's Son · Donnie Darko (2001) as David · Erin Brockovich (2000) as Matthew Brown
Career snapshot
Ranked #17122 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1998–2001
Career length
3 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
The Green Mile
Average Nutevio score
7.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.5
The Green Mile
Most frequent director
Frank Darabont
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Frank Darabont
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
2h 12m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
2000s
7.3 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Donnie Darko, The Majestic, Life as a House — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.3
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.3
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. The Green Mile, Babe: Pig in the City, Simon Birch.
Most productive era
2000s
4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.13 films | 7.34 films |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | — |
| Crime | 8.81 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Character Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
1999The Green Mile
8.8 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
2001Life as a House
The current state of the argument, as Ryan Kimball.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Hammersmith's Son
Directed by Frank Darabont
as David
Directed by Richard Kelly
as Matthew Brown
Directed by Unknown
as Ryan Kimball
Directed by Irwin Winkler
as Junior Lamb
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
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
Hammersmith's Son
The Green Mile (1999)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hammersmith's Son gives Scotty Leavenworth a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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David
Donnie Darko (2001)
Performance score7.7
Donnie Darko asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. David is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Matthew Brown
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Performance score7.2
Erin Brockovich asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Matthew Brown is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ryan Kimball
Life as a House (2001)
Performance score7.0
Life as a House asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ryan Kimball 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 Hammersmith's Son
Start here. The Green Mile is the clearest statement of what Scotty Leavenworth does — accessible, 189 minutes, and rated 8.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Scotty 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.
Simon Birch (1998)
Keeps the drama register of The Green Mile but asks for a colder reading of it.
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Keeps the drama register of Simon Birch but asks for a colder reading of it.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Keeps the drama register of Erin Brockovich but asks for a colder reading of it.
Life as a House (2001)
Keeps the drama register of Donnie Darko but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together
Notably The Green Mile
Mark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Simon Birch
George Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Babe: Pig in the City
Irwin Winkler
Director
1 film together
Notably Life as a House
Richard Kelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Donnie Darko
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Frank Darabont
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Green MileRichard Kelly
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Donnie DarkoIrwin Winkler
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Life as a HouseMark Steven Johnson
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Simon BirchGeorge Miller
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Babe: Pig in the CitySix 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 Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
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 Majestic
as Joey
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 Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Simon Birch
as Junior Lamb
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
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. Scotty Leavenworth 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.
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
The Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Majestic
as Joey
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Donnie Darko
as David
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Babe: Pig in the City
as Additional Character Voices (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Green Mile
as Hammersmith's Son
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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