Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9240
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Stuart Hughes works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Stuart Hughes appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Stuart. Frankenstein 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, fantasy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Guillermo del Toro, Valerie Buhagiar, Ali Abbasi and others, Stuart Hughes 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.
Frankenstein (2025) as Old Hunter #2 · It (2017) as Officer Bowers · The Apprentice (2024) as Mike Wallace
Career snapshot
Ranked #9240 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2005–2025
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Frankenstein
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Frankenstein
Most frequent director
Guillermo del Toro
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Guillermo del Toro
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
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
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. It, Lavender — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
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. Where the Truth Lies.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 6.11 film | 6.42 films | 5.84 films |
| Action | — | — | 5.21 film |
| Thriller | 6.11 film | 6.42 films | 6.61 film |
| Comedy | — | — | 5.24 films |
| Romance | — | — | 6.02 films |
| Horror | — | 7.21 film | 7.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as 1st Journalist.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Frankenstein
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
2025The Dogs
The current state of the argument, as Art Sinclair.
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 Old Hunter #2
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
as Officer Bowers
Directed by Andy Muschietti
as Art Sinclair
Directed by Valerie Buhagiar
as Mike Wallace
Directed by Ali Abbasi
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
Old Hunter #2
Frankenstein (2025)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Old Hunter #2 gives Stuart Hughes a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Officer Bowers
It (2017)
Performance score7.1
It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Bowers is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Art Sinclair
The Dogs (2025)
Performance score6.8
The Dogs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Art Sinclair is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mike Wallace
The Apprentice (2024)
Performance score6.8
The Apprentice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mike Wallace 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 Old Hunter #2
Start here. Frankenstein is the clearest statement of what Stuart Hughes does — accessible, 150 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Stuart 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.
It (2017)
Keeps the horror register of Frankenstein but asks for a colder reading of it.
A Christmas Carousel (2020)
A deliberate change of key after It — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Apprentice (2024)
A deliberate change of key after A Christmas Carousel — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Dogs (2025)
A deliberate change of key after The Apprentice — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Atom Egoyan
Director
1 film together
Notably Where the Truth Lies
Ed Gass-Donnelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Lavender
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably It
Don McCutcheon
Director
1 film together
Notably A Christmas Carousel
Ali Abbasi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Apprentice
Valerie Buhagiar
Director
1 film together
Notably The Dogs
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together
Notably Frankenstein
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Guillermo del Toro
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FrankensteinAndy Muschietti
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ItAli Abbasi
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The ApprenticeDon McCutcheon
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Christmas CarouselValerie Buhagiar
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DogsAtom 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 LiesEd Gass-Donnelly
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LavenderSix 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
Frankenstein
as Old Hunter #2
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Apprentice
as Mike Wallace
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Frankenstein
as Old Hunter #2
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Frankenstein
as Old Hunter #2
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Frankenstein
as Old Hunter #2
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. Stuart Hughes 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
20 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
7 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
Frankenstein
as Old Hunter #2
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
It
as Officer Bowers
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Apprentice
as Mike Wallace
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Dogs
as Art Sinclair
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Frankenstein
as Old Hunter #2
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Die in a Gunfight
as Henry Gibbon
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Apprentice
as Mike Wallace
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Apprentice
as Mike Wallace
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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