Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17375
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tim Perez 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.
Tim Perez appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tim. Ocean's Eleven 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 romance, comedy, tv movie. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Lucie Guest, Jessica Harmon, Elisabeth Röhm and others, Tim Perez 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.
Ocean's Eleven (2001) as Security Guard · Christmas at the Catnip Café (2025) as Ned · Tomorrowland (2015) as Deputy
Career snapshot
Ranked #17375 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2001–2025
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Ocean's Eleven
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Ocean's Eleven
Most frequent director
Lucie Guest
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Lucie Guest
Most common genre
Thriller
5 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
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
2000s
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. War, 88 Minutes, Ocean's Eleven — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.8
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. War, 88 Minutes, Ocean's Eleven.
Most productive era
2000s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 5.91 film | 6.31 film |
| Action | 6.51 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.73 films | 6.12 films | — |
| Comedy | — | — | 6.52 films |
| Crime | 7.02 films | — | 6.31 film |
| Romance | — | — | 6.52 films |
| Horror | — | 6.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2001Ocean's Eleven
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Security Guard. 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
2025Catch of the Day
The current state of the argument, as Javi.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Security Guard
Directed by Unknown
as Javi
Directed by Jessica Harmon
as Javier Garcia
Directed by Elisabeth Röhm
as Mr. Yorkes
Directed by Zack Whedon
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
Security Guard
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Security Guard gives Tim Perez a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ned
Christmas at the Catnip Café (2025)
Performance score6.5
Christmas at the Catnip Café asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ned is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Javi
Catch of the Day (2025)
Performance score6.5
Catch of the Day asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Javi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Javier Garcia
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024)
Performance score6.5
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Javier Garcia 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 Security Guard
Start here. Ocean's Eleven is the clearest statement of what Tim Perez does — accessible, 116 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tim 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.
Come and Find Me (2016)
Keeps the thriller register of Ocean's Eleven but asks for a colder reading of it.
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024)
Keeps the drama register of Come and Find Me but asks for a colder reading of it.
Christmas at the Catnip Café (2025)
Keeps the tv movie register of Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story but asks for a colder reading of it.
Catch of the Day (2025)
Keeps the romance register of Christmas at the Catnip Café but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Avnet
Director
1 film together
Notably 88 Minutes
Philip G. Atwell
Director
1 film together
Notably War
Ole Bornedal
Director
1 film together
Notably The Possession
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrowland
Zack Whedon
Director
1 film together
Notably Come and Find Me
Elisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together
Notably Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
Jessica Harmon
Director
1 film together
Notably Catch of the Day
Lucie Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably Christmas at the Catnip Café
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Lucie Guest
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Christmas at the Catnip CaféBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TomorrowlandPhilip G. Atwell
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WarJessica Harmon
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Catch of the DayElisabeth Röhm
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Husband Father Killer: The Alyssa Pladl StoryOle Bornedal
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 PossessionJon Avnet
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
88 MinutesZack Whedon
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Come and Find MeSix 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
Ocean's Eleven
as Security Guard
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Christmas at the Catnip Café
as Ned
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ocean's Eleven
as Security Guard
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
War
as Mexican Interpol Agent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Ocean's Eleven
as Security Guard
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. Tim Perez 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
24 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
Ocean's Eleven
as Security Guard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Ocean's Eleven
as Security Guard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Christmas at the Catnip Café
as Ned
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
88 Minutes
as Cabbie #1
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Ocean's Eleven
as Security Guard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
War
as Mexican Interpol Agent
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Christmas at the Catnip Café
as Ned
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Come and Find Me
as Mr. Yorkes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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