Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9489
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Simon Chin 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.
Simon Chin appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Simon. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 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 action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Adam Davidson, James Clayton, Jeff Fowler and others, Simon Chin 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.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) as Tavern Fish Butcher · The Unforgivable (2021) as Corrections Officer #2 · Adventures in Babysitting (2016) as Planetarium Guard
Career snapshot
Ranked #9489 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Most frequent director
Adam Davidson
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Adam Davidson
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.5
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
2020s
6.8 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. One Mile: Chapter Two, Get Fast, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.8
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. Chaos Theory, Just Friends.
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 | 6.41 film | — | 7.41 film |
| Action | — | 6.33 films | 6.74 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.23 films | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.32 films | 6.56 films | 7.02 films |
| Crime | — | 6.82 films | 6.73 films |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.61 film | — |
| Horror | — | 6.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Just Friends
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sound Engineer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021The Unforgivable
7.4 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 Guard/Bart.
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.
16 of 16 films
as Tavern Fish Butcher
Directed by Jeff Fowler
as Corrections Officer #2
Directed by Unknown
as Planetarium Guard
Directed by Unknown
as Inventor #1
Directed by Jonathan Judge
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
Tavern Fish Butcher
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Performance score7.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tavern Fish Butcher gives Simon Chin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Corrections Officer #2
The Unforgivable (2021)
Performance score7.2
The Unforgivable asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Corrections Officer #2 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Planetarium Guard
Adventures in Babysitting (2016)
Performance score7.1
Adventures in Babysitting asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Planetarium Guard is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Inventor #1
Swindle (2014)
Performance score6.9
Swindle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Inventor #1 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 Tavern Fish Butcher
Start here. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is the clearest statement of what Simon Chin does — accessible, 123 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Simon 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.
Swindle (2014)
Keeps the comedy register of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Adventures in Babysitting (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of Swindle but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Unforgivable (2021)
Same director as Adventures in Babysitting, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)
Keeps the crime register of The Unforgivable but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably Just Friends
Marcos Siega
Director
1 film together
Notably Chaos Theory
Jonathan Judge
Director
1 film together
Notably Swindle
Chris Wedge
Director
1 film together
Notably Monster Trucks
Nahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Always Be My Maybe
Lena Khan
Director
1 film together
Notably Flora & Ulysses
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Jeff Fowler
Director
1 film together
Notably Sonic the Hedgehog 2
James Clayton
Director
1 film together
Notably Get Fast
Adam Davidson
Director
1 film together
Notably One Mile: Chapter Two
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Fowler
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sonic the Hedgehog 2Jonathan Judge
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SwindleAdam Davidson
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Mile: Chapter TwoNahnatchka Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Always Be My MaybeLena Khan
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Flora & UlyssesRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe OriginsMarcos Siega
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chaos TheoryRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Just FriendsChris Wedge
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Monster TrucksJames Clayton
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Get FastSix 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
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Tavern Fish Butcher
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Chaos Theory
as Target of Frank's Attack
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 Unforgivable
as Corrections Officer #2
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Tavern Fish Butcher
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Tavern Fish Butcher
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. Simon Chin 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
21 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Tavern Fish Butcher
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Unforgivable
as Corrections Officer #2
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Chaos Theory
as Target of Frank's Attack
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Come to Daddy
as Dandy
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Tavern Fish Butcher
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
as Tavern Fish Butcher
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Chaos Theory
as Target of Frank's Attack
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Come to Daddy
as Dandy
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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