Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#7093
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Stephen Bogaert represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 26 years in, and Stephen is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Stephen Bogaert appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Stephen. American Psycho is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Roland Emmerich, Andy Muschietti, Mark Williams and others, Stephen Bogaert 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.
American Psycho (2000) as Harold Carnes · It (2017) as Mr. Marsh · It Chapter Two (2019) as Alvin Marsh
Career snapshot
Ranked #7093 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2000–2026
Career length
26 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
American Psycho
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
American Psycho
Most frequent director
Andy Muschietti
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Andy Muschietti
Most common genre
Horror
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 59m
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
2000s
7.6 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. American Psycho — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.6
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.4
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. American Psycho.
Most productive era
2010s
4 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 | 7.61 film | 6.93 films | — |
| Action | — | 6.51 film | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | 7.61 film | 7.02 films | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.71 film |
| Crime | 7.61 film | — | — |
| Horror | — | 7.02 films | 2.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2000American Psycho
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Harold Carnes. 7.6 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
2026Ivan
The current state of the argument, as Jim.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Harold Carnes
Directed by Mary Harron
as Mr. Marsh
Directed by Andy Muschietti
as Alvin Marsh
Directed by Andy Muschietti
as HR Manager
Directed by Mark Williams
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
Harold Carnes
American Psycho (2000)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Harold Carnes gives Stephen Bogaert a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mr. Marsh
It (2017)
Performance score7.1
It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Marsh is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Alvin Marsh
It Chapter Two (2019)
Performance score6.7
It Chapter Two asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Alvin Marsh is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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HR Manager
A Family Man (2016)
Performance score6.6
A Family Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. HR Manager 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 Harold Carnes
Start here. American Psycho is the clearest statement of what Stephen Bogaert does — accessible, 102 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Stephen 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 Family Man (2016)
Keeps the drama register of American Psycho but asks for a colder reading of it.
It (2017)
Keeps the drama register of A Family Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
It Chapter Two (2019)
Same director as It, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Ivan (2026)
Keeps the horror register of It Chapter Two but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together
Notably It
Mary Harron
Director
1 film together
Notably American Psycho
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably X-Men: Apocalypse
Mark Williams
Director
1 film together
Notably A Family Man
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Moonfall
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ItMary Harron
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American PsychoMark Williams
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Family ManBryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
X-Men: ApocalypseRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MoonfallSix 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
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Family Man
as HR Manager
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
X-Men: Apocalypse
as Pentagon General Hastings
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
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. Stephen Bogaert 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
26 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.
Horror Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in horror, 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
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Family Man
as HR Manager
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Moonfall
as NASA Director Albert Hutchings
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
American Psycho
as Harold Carnes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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