Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#15094
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Slash represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 38 years in, and Slash is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Slash appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Slash. Ozzy: No Escape from Now is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 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 horror, documentary, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Oliver Schwabe, James Rogan, Tom Scharpling and others, Slash 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.
Ozzy: No Escape from Now (2025) as Self · Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011) as Self (uncredited) · Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #15094 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1988–2026
Career length
38 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
Average Nutevio score
4.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.4
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
Most frequent director
Oliver Schwabe
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Oliver Schwabe
Most common genre
Documentary
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
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
2000s
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Anvil! The Story of Anvil — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.6
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. The Dead Pool.
Most productive era
2020s
5 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action | 6.31 film | 5.61 film | — | 7.11 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | — | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | — | 5.61 film | — | 7.11 film | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 5.61 film | — | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1988The Dead Pool
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Musician at Funeral (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.4 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
2026Black Zombie
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Self (uncredited)
Directed by Dan Povenmire
as Self
Directed by Unknown
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
Self
Ozzy: No Escape from Now (2025)
Performance score8.1
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Slash a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self (uncredited)
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
Performance score7.0
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (uncredited) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
Performance score7.0
Anvil! The Story of Anvil asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (2022)
Performance score6.6
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Self
Start here. Ozzy: No Escape from Now is the clearest statement of what Slash does — accessible, 120 minutes, and rated 8.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Slash 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.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
Keeps the documentary register of Ozzy: No Escape from Now but asks for a colder reading of it.
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Anvil! The Story of Anvil — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Black Zombie (2026)
Keeps the documentary register of Freddie Mercury: The Final Act but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Buddy Van Horn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dead Pool
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Director
1 film together
Notably Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together
Notably Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Tom Scharpling
Director
1 film together
Notably The Postal Service Zoom Auditions
James Rogan
Director
1 film together
Notably Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Oliver Schwabe
Director
1 film together
Notably Beth Hart - Bad Woman Blues
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd DimensionSacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anvil! The Story of AnvilJames Rogan
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Freddie Mercury: The Final ActBuddy Van Horn
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Dead PoolFran Rubel Kuzui
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Buffy the Vampire SlayerOliver Schwabe
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beth Hart - Bad Woman BluesTom Scharpling
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Postal Service Zoom AuditionsSix 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
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
as Self
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
as Self
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as DJ (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
as Self
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. Slash 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
38 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.
Documentary Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in documentary, 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
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
as Self
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
as Self
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Dead Pool
as Musician at Funeral (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ozzy: No Escape from Now
as Self
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Self (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Self (uncredited)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dead Pool
as Musician at Funeral (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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