Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3710
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Simon Sinn represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Simon is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Simon Sinn appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Simon. Ready or Not: Here I Come is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 comedy, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Rose Troche, Kyle Newacheck and others, Simon Sinn 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.
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026) as Older Patient · John Q (2002) as Fong · Murder Mystery (2019) as Captain Wong
Career snapshot
Ranked #3710 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1995–2026
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Ready or Not: Here I Come
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Ready or Not: Here I Come
Most frequent director
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
6.5
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
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Ready or Not: Here I Come, My Fake Boyfriend, Halloween Party — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.5
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. Johnny Mnemonic.
Most productive era
2000s
3 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.62 films | — | — |
| Action | 5.81 film | — | 6.01 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.62 films | 6.01 film | 7.51 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | 6.31 film | 6.72 films |
| Crime | — | 7.11 film | 6.31 film | — |
| Romance | — | — | — | 5.91 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.72 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Johnny Mnemonic
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Man in Hotel Lobby.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
7.5 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. The current state of the argument, as Older Patient.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Older Patient
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
as Fong
Directed by Nick Cassavetes
as Andy on Plane
Directed by Unknown
as Captain Wong
Directed by Kyle Newacheck
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
Older Patient
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Older Patient gives Simon Sinn a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Fong
John Q (2002)
Performance score7.0
John Q asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Fong is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Jiang
My Fake Boyfriend (2022)
Performance score6.5
My Fake Boyfriend asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Jiang is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Andy on Plane
Halloween Party (2020)
Performance score6.5
Halloween Party asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Andy on Plane 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 Older Patient
Start here. Ready or Not: Here I Come is the clearest statement of what Simon Sinn does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 7.5 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.
John Q (2002)
Keeps the thriller register of Ready or Not: Here I Come but asks for a colder reading of it.
Murder Mystery (2019)
Keeps the crime register of John Q but asks for a colder reading of it.
Halloween Party (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Murder Mystery — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My Fake Boyfriend (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Halloween Party — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Longo
Director
1 film together
Notably Johnny Mnemonic
Nick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together
Notably John Q
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Where the Truth Lies
Len Wiseman
Director
1 film together
Notably Total Recall
Kyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together
Notably Murder Mystery
Rose Troche
Director
1 film together
Notably My Fake Boyfriend
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together
Notably Ready or Not: Here I Come
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ready or Not: Here I ComeNick Cassavetes
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John QKyle Newacheck
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Murder MysteryAtom Egoyan
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Where the Truth LiesLen Wiseman
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Total RecallRose Troche
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My Fake BoyfriendRobert Longo
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Johnny MnemonicSix 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
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Older Patient
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
My Fake Boyfriend
as Mr. Jiang
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Older Patient
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
John Q
as Fong
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Older Patient
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 Sinn 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
31 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
4 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
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Older Patient
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Older Patient
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
My Fake Boyfriend
as Mr. Jiang
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Where the Truth Lies
as Stanley
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as Older Patient
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Johnny Mnemonic
as Man in Hotel Lobby
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
John Q
as Fong
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Rocker
as Mr. Lee
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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