Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2952
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Steven Weber represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 34 years in, and Steven is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Steven Weber appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Steven. Leaving Las Vegas is the clearest case: a film rated 7.3 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, science fiction, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Tim Aslin, Alfred Gimeno, David Frankel and others, Steven Weber 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.
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) as Marc Nussbaum · The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021) · Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) as Simeon / Slave Trader (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2952 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1987–2021
Career length
34 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.3
Leaving Las Vegas
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Leaving Las Vegas
Most frequent director
Tim Aslin
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Tim Aslin
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 17m
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Leaving Las Vegas, Single White Female — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.8
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. Hamburger Hill.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.51 film | 7.31 film | 6.82 films | 6.41 film | — |
| Action | 6.51 film | — | — | 6.41 film | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.31 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.61 film | 6.22 films | 0.01 film |
| Romance | — | 7.31 film | — | 6.41 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1987Hamburger Hill
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sfc. Dennis Worcester.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.3 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
2021The War of the Worlds 2021
The current state of the argument.
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
Directed by Unknown
as Sfc. Dennis Worcester
Directed by John Irvin
as Simeon / Slave Trader (voice)
Directed by Robert C. Ramirez
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
Marc Nussbaum
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Marc Nussbaum gives Steven Weber a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The War of the Worlds 2021
The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021)
Performance score7.1
The War of the Worlds 2021 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sfc. Dennis Worcester
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Performance score7.0
Hamburger Hill asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sfc. Dennis Worcester is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Simeon / Slave Trader (voice)
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
Performance score6.8
Joseph: King of Dreams asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Simeon / Slave Trader (voice) 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 Marc Nussbaum
Start here. Leaving Las Vegas is the clearest statement of what Steven Weber does — accessible, 111 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Steven 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.
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Keeps the drama register of Leaving Las Vegas but asks for a colder reading of it.
Single White Female (1992)
A deliberate change of key after Hamburger Hill — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
A deliberate change of key after Single White Female — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Joseph: King of Dreams — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Irvin
Director
1 film together
Notably Hamburger Hill
Barbet Schroeder
Director
1 film together
Notably Single White Female
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together
Notably Leaving Las Vegas
Robert C. Ramirez
Director
1 film together
Notably Joseph: King of Dreams
Richard Loncraine
Director
1 film together
Notably My One and Only
Nicole Kassell
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Bit of Heaven
David Frankel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Big Year
Alfred Gimeno
Director
1 film together
Notably Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
Tim Aslin
Director
1 film together
Notably 2 Timers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Mike Figgis
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Leaving Las VegasRobert C. Ramirez
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Joseph: King of DreamsRichard Loncraine
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
My One and OnlyJohn Irvin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hamburger HillAlfred Gimeno
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marvel Rising: Chasing GhostsNicole Kassell
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little Bit of HeavenBarbet Schroeder
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Single White FemaleDavid Frankel
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Big YearTim Aslin
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
2 TimersSix 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
Leaving Las Vegas
as Marc Nussbaum
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Leaving Las Vegas
as Marc Nussbaum
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Leaving Las Vegas
as Marc Nussbaum
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Big Year
as Rick
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Leaving Las Vegas
as Marc Nussbaum
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. Steven Weber 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
34 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in drama, 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
Leaving Las Vegas
as Marc Nussbaum
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Single White Female
as Sam Rawson
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Joseph: King of Dreams
as Simeon / Slave Trader (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Single White Female
as Sam Rawson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
as Captain Stacy / Security Guard (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
as Captain Stacy / Security Guard (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
A Little Bit of Heaven
as Rob Randolph
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Little Bit of Heaven
as Rob Randolph
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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