Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2306
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Simon Helberg 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 Helberg appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Simon. Good Night, and Good Luck. is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for romance, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Amy Landecker, Kyra Sedgwick, Mayim Bialik and others, Simon Helberg 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.
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) as CBS Page · Annette (2021) as The Accompanist · Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) as Cosmé McMoon
Career snapshot
Ranked #2306 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Most frequent director
Amy Landecker
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Amy Landecker
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Florence Foster Jenkins — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Evan Almighty, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, For Your Consideration.
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.11 film | 6.71 film | 5.74 films |
| Comedy | 6.25 films | 6.71 film | 5.43 films |
| Romance | 6.61 film | — | 5.74 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Old School
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Jerry.
Highest rated performance
2005Good Night, and Good Luck.
7.1 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
2026For Worse
The current state of the argument, as Mediator.
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
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
The Accompanist
Annette (2021)
Performance score7.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Accompanist gives Simon Helberg a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Cosmé McMoon
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Performance score7.1
Florence Foster Jenkins asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cosmé McMoon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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CBS Page
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Performance score7.0
Good Night, and Good Luck. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. CBS Page is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dreidel L'Chaim
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Performance score6.6
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dreidel L'Chaim 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 The Accompanist
Start here. Annette is the clearest statement of what Simon Helberg does — accessible, 140 minutes, and rated 6.7 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.
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Keeps the romance register of Annette but asks for a colder reading of it.
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
A deliberate change of key after A Cinderella Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Good Night, and Good Luck. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably Old School
Mark Rosman
Director
1 film together
Notably A Cinderella Story
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably Good Night, and Good Luck.
Christopher Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably For Your Consideration
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Tom Shadyac
Director
1 film together
Notably Evan Almighty
Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together
Notably Florence Foster Jenkins
Mayim Bialik
Director
1 film together
Notably As They Made Us
Kyra Sedgwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Oddity
Amy Landecker
Director
1 film together
Notably For Worse
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Clooney
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Good Night, and Good Luck.Stephen Frears
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Florence Foster JenkinsJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryMark Rosman
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Cinderella StoryTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Old SchoolKyra Sedgwick
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space OddityChristopher Guest
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For Your ConsiderationTom Shadyac
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Evan AlmightyMayim Bialik
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
As They Made UsAmy Landecker
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
For WorseSix 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
Annette
as The Accompanist
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as CBS Page
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as CBS Page
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Old School
as Jerry
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Annette
as The Accompanist
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 Helberg 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
23 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
9 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
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as CBS Page
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as CBS Page
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Annette
as The Accompanist
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Evan Almighty
as Staffer
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as CBS Page
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Old School
as Jerry
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
For Worse
as Mediator
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Space Oddity
as Dimitry
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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