Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2541
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Ted Raimi represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 44 years in, and Ted is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Ted Raimi appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Ted. Spider-Man is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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 mystery, horror, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bruce Campbell, Josh Becker, Sam Raimi and others, Ted Raimi 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.
Spider-Man (2002) as Hoffman · Spider-Man 2 (2004) as Hoffman · Evil Dead II (1987) as Possessed Henrietta
Career snapshot
Ranked #2541 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
1982–2026
Career length
44 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Spider-Man
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Evil Dead II
Most frequent director
Sam Raimi
11 films together
Longest collaboration
11×
With Sam Raimi
Most common genre
Horror
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
6.6
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
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Drag Me to Hell, The Midnight Meat Train, Spider-Man 3 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.7
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. Intruder, Evil Dead II, Crimewave.
Most productive era
1990s
8 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 | — | 6.65 films | 7.21 film | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.64 films | 7.33 films | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 6.65 films | 6.22 films | — | 0.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.52 films | 6.92 films | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Crime | 5.51 film | 6.62 films | — | — | — |
| Romance | — | 6.41 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | 6.74 films | 7.02 films | 6.23 films | — | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1982The Evil Dead
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Fake Shemp.
Career peak
1987Evil Dead II
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2002Spider-Man
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Ernie and Emma
The current state of the argument, as Persnickety Dance Instructor.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Possessed Henrietta
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Hoffman
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Hoffman
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Cowardly Warrior / Second Supportive Villager / S-Mart Clerk
Directed by Sam Raimi
as Fake Shemp
Directed by Sam Raimi
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
Possessed Henrietta
Evil Dead II (1987)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Possessed Henrietta gives Ted Raimi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Hoffman
Spider-Man (2002)
Performance score7.5
Spider-Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hoffman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hoffman
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Performance score7.3
Spider-Man 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hoffman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cowardly Warrior / Second Supportive Villager / S-Mart Clerk
Army of Darkness (1992)
Performance score7.2
Army of Darkness asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cowardly Warrior / Second Supportive Villager / S-Mart Clerk 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 Possessed Henrietta
Start here. Evil Dead II is the clearest statement of what Ted Raimi does — accessible, 84 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Ted 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.
The Evil Dead (1982)
Same director as Evil Dead II, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Army of Darkness (1992)
Same director as The Evil Dead, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Spider-Man (2002)
Same director as Army of Darkness, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Same director as Spider-Man, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Sam Raimi
Director
11 films together
Notably Spider-Man
Phillip Noyce
Director
2 films together
Notably Clear and Present Danger
Scott Spiegel
Director
1 film together
Notably Intruder
Mike Nichols
Director
1 film together
Notably Postcards from the Edge
Bernard Rose
Director
1 film together
Notably Candyman
John Woo
Director
1 film together
Notably Hard Target
Takashi Shimizu
Director
1 film together
Notably The Grudge
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably Reign Over Me
Ryuhei Kitamura
Director
1 film together
Notably The Midnight Meat Train
Josh Becker
Director
1 film together
Notably Warpath
Bruce Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably Ernie and Emma
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Sam Raimi
Director
11 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 11 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Spider-ManPhillip Noyce
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Clear and Present DangerMike Binder
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Reign Over MeBernard Rose
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CandymanMike Nichols
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Postcards from the EdgeJohn Woo
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hard TargetScott Spiegel
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IntruderRyuhei Kitamura
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Midnight Meat TrainTakashi Shimizu
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GrudgeJosh Becker
Director
1 film together · 3.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WarpathBruce Campbell
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ernie and EmmaSix 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
Spider-Man
as Hoffman
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
For Love of the Game
as Gallery Doorman
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Spider-Man
as Hoffman
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
For Love of the Game
as Gallery Doorman
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Evil Dead II
as Possessed Henrietta
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. Ted Raimi 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
44 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
10 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
Spider-Man
as Hoffman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Evil Dead
as Fake Shemp
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
For Love of the Game
as Gallery Doorman
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Midnight Meat Train
as Randle Cooper
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Spider-Man 2
as Hoffman
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Spider-Man 2
as Hoffman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Patriot Games
as CIA Technician
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man
as Hoffman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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