Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#29608
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Simón Andreu represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 37 years in, and Simón is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Simón Andreu appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Simón. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the clearest case: a film rated 6.8 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 mystery, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Patrick Hughes, Andrew Adamson, Miloš Forman and others, Simón Andreu 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 Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) as Lord Scythley · Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) as Lawyer · Goya's Ghosts (2006) as Asylum Director
Career snapshot
Ranked #29608 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
1985–2022
Career length
37 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.8
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.6
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Most frequent director
Patrick Hughes
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Patrick Hughes
Most common genre
Thriller
6 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
6.4
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
1980s
6.6 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. Flesh + Blood — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
6.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1980s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Flesh + Blood.
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 | 1980s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.61 film | 6.22 films | — | — |
| Action | — | 5.82 films | 5.41 film | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 5.82 films | 2.72 films | 6.32 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | — | 6.61 film |
| Crime | — | 5.51 film | — | 6.61 film |
| Romance | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1985Flesh + Blood
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Miel.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2008The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
6.8 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
The current state of the argument, as Octavio Machuca.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Lord Scythley
Directed by Andrew Adamson
as Lawyer
Directed by Patrick Hughes
as Asylum Director
Directed by Miloš Forman
as Miel
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
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The defining work
#1
Lord Scythley
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Performance score6.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Lord Scythley gives Simón Andreu a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Lawyer
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
Performance score6.6
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lawyer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Asylum Director
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Performance score6.6
Goya's Ghosts asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Asylum Director is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Miel
Flesh + Blood (1985)
Performance score6.6
Flesh + Blood asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Miel 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 Lord Scythley
Start here. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the clearest statement of what Simón Andreu does — accessible, 150 minutes, and rated 6.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Simón 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.
Flesh + Blood (1985)
Keeps the adventure register of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian but asks for a colder reading of it.
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Keeps the drama register of Flesh + Blood but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Goya's Ghosts — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Man from Rome (2022)
Keeps the thriller register of Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Paul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together
Notably Flesh + Blood
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably Die Another Day
Miloš Forman
Director
1 film together
Notably Goya's Ghosts
Andrew Adamson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andrew Adamson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince CaspianPatrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hitman's Wife's BodyguardMiloš Forman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goya's GhostsPaul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flesh + BloodLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Die Another DaySix 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
Flesh + Blood
as Miel
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 Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Lord Scythley
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 Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Lord Scythley
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 Mr. Santiago
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Lord Scythley
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. Simón Andreu 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
37 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in thriller, 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 Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Lord Scythley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
as Lawyer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Lord Scythley
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Man from Rome
as Octavio Machuca
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
as Lawyer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Die Another Day
as Dr. Alvarez
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Goya's Ghosts
as Asylum Director
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as Lord Scythley
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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