Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2347
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Thomas Brodie-Sangster 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.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Thomas. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Wes Ball, Richard Curtis, J.J. Abrams and others, Thomas Brodie-Sangster 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.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as First Order Officer · The Maze Runner (2014) as Newt · Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014) as Ferb Fletcher (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #2347 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2003–2018
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Most frequent director
Wes Ball
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Wes Ball
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
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
2010s
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Red Nose Day Actually, Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. The Last Legion, Tristan & Isolde, Nanny McPhee.
Most productive era
2010s
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 | 2000s | 2010s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.02 films | — |
| Action | 5.61 film | 7.07 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.13 films |
| Comedy | 7.02 films | 6.84 films |
| Crime | — | 6.01 film |
| Romance | 7.02 films | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Love Actually
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sam.
Career peak
2014The Maze Runner
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7.5 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2018Maze Runner: The Death Cure
The current state of the argument, as Newt.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Newt
Directed by Wes Ball
as Ferb Fletcher (voice)
Directed by Robert Hughes
as Newt
Directed by Wes Ball
as Ferb Fletcher (voice)
Directed by Dan Povenmire
as First Order Officer
Directed by J.J. Abrams
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
Newt
The Maze Runner (2014)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Newt gives Thomas Brodie-Sangster a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ferb Fletcher (voice)
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
Performance score7.6
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ferb Fletcher (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Newt
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Performance score7.5
Maze Runner: The Death Cure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Newt is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ferb Fletcher (voice)
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
Performance score7.5
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ferb Fletcher (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 Newt
Start here. The Maze Runner is the clearest statement of what Thomas Brodie-Sangster does — accessible, 113 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Thomas 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.
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
Keeps the action register of The Maze Runner but asks for a colder reading of it.
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
Keeps the action register of Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension but asks for a colder reading of it.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Keeps the action register of Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars but asks for a colder reading of it.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Keeps the action register of Star Wars: The Force Awakens but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Ball
Director
3 films together
Notably The Maze Runner
Richard Curtis
Director
2 films together
Notably Love Actually
Kirk Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Nanny McPhee
Kevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together
Notably Tristan & Isolde
Doug Lefler
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Legion
Dan Povenmire
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Robert Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Ball
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Maze RunnerRichard Curtis
Director
2 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Love ActuallyJ.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Force AwakensRobert Hughes
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb: Star WarsDan Povenmire
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd DimensionKevin Reynolds
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tristan & IsoldeKirk Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nanny McPheeDoug Lefler
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last LegionSix 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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Tristan & Isolde
as Young Tristan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Maze Runner
as Newt
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. Thomas Brodie-Sangster 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.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in action, 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
The Maze Runner
as Newt
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Maze Runner
as Newt
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Tristan & Isolde
as Young Tristan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Maze Runner
as Newt
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
as Newt
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
as Ferb Fletcher (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as First Order Officer
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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