Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#11439
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Stoney Westmoreland represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Stoney is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Stoney Westmoreland appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Stoney. Perfect Victim is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 drama, documentary, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Todd Phillips, Jay Roach, Oliver Stone and others, Stoney Westmoreland 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.
Perfect Victim (2026) as Audience Member · War Dogs (2016) as Vegas X Supplier · Matchstick Men (2003) as Man in Line
Career snapshot
Ranked #11439 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Perfect Victim
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Perfect Victim
Most frequent director
Todd Phillips
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Todd Phillips
Most common genre
Drama
5 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.7
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
7.3 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Perfect Victim, My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
7.3
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.3
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. Godzilla.
Most productive era
2000s
2 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 | — | 6.72 films | 6.82 films | 8.01 film |
| Action | 5.91 film | — | — | — |
| Thriller | 5.91 film | 6.72 films | — | — |
| Comedy | — | 7.01 film | 7.01 film | — |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | 7.01 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998Godzilla
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Tunnel Guard.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Perfect Victim
8.0 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 Audience Member.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Audience Member
Directed by Unknown
as Vegas X Supplier
Directed by Todd Phillips
as Man in Line
Directed by Ridley Scott
as Rep. James Corman
Directed by Jay Roach
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
Audience Member
Perfect Victim (2026)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Audience Member gives Stoney Westmoreland a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Vegas X Supplier
War Dogs (2016)
Performance score6.9
War Dogs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vegas X Supplier is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Man in Line
Matchstick Men (2003)
Performance score6.9
Matchstick Men asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Man in Line is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rep. James Corman
All the Way (2016)
Performance score6.6
All the Way asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rep. James Corman 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 Audience Member
Start here. Perfect Victim is the clearest statement of what Stoney Westmoreland does — accessible, 6 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Stoney 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.
Matchstick Men (2003)
Keeps the drama register of Perfect Victim but asks for a colder reading of it.
War Dogs (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of Matchstick Men but asks for a colder reading of it.
All the Way (2016)
Keeps the drama register of War Dogs but asks for a colder reading of it.
My Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys (2020)
A deliberate change of key after All the Way — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Roland Emmerich
Director
1 film together
Notably Godzilla
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Matchstick Men
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably World Trade Center
Jay Roach
Director
1 film together
Notably All the Way
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably War Dogs
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War DogsRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Matchstick MenJay Roach
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the WayOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
World Trade CenterRoland Emmerich
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GodzillaSix 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
Matchstick Men
as Man in Line
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
World Trade Center
as Paddy McGee
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Perfect Victim
as Audience Member
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Godzilla
as Tunnel Guard
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Perfect Victim
as Audience Member
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. Stoney Westmoreland 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
28 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
Perfect Victim
as Audience Member
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Matchstick Men
as Man in Line
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
World Trade Center
as Paddy McGee
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Matchstick Men
as Man in Line
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Perfect Victim
as Audience Member
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Godzilla
as Tunnel Guard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
War Dogs
as Vegas X Supplier
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Godzilla
as Tunnel Guard
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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