Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6784
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tim Plester 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 Plester appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tim. Bohemian Rhapsody is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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 fantasy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ben Gregor, Uta Briesewitz, Charles Martin Smith and others, Tim Plester 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.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) as RT Baker · Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) as Servant · Control (2007) as Earnest
Career snapshot
Ranked #6784 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2002–2026
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Bohemian Rhapsody
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Bohemian Rhapsody
Most frequent director
Ben Gregor
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ben Gregor
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
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
6.4
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. Bohemian Rhapsody, 55 Steps, Cuban Fury — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.0
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. Control, Below.
Most productive era
2010s
6 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 | 7.51 film | 7.24 films | 4.95 films |
| Action | — | 7.11 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | — | 5.61 film |
| Comedy | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.52 films | — |
| Romance | — | 6.11 film | — |
| Horror | 6.01 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2002Below
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Motormac.
Career peak
2010Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Virtue
The current state of the argument, as David.
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.
14 of 14 films
as Danil
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
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
RT Baker
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. RT Baker gives Tim Plester a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Servant
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Performance score7.8
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Servant is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Earnest
Control (2007)
Performance score7.3
Control asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Earnest is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Danil
Kick-Ass (2010)
Performance score7.0
Kick-Ass asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Danil 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 RT Baker
Start here. Bohemian Rhapsody is the clearest statement of what Tim Plester does — accessible, 135 minutes, and rated 8.1 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.
Control (2007)
Keeps the drama register of Bohemian Rhapsody but asks for a colder reading of it.
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Keeps the drama register of Control but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kick-Ass (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
55 Steps (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Kick-Ass — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Twohy
Director
1 film together
Notably Below
Toby Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol
William Monahan
Director
1 film together
Notably London Boulevard
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably Kick-Ass
James Griffiths
Director
1 film together
Notably Cuban Fury
Bille August
Director
1 film together
Notably 55 Steps
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together
Notably Bohemian Rhapsody
Charles Martin Smith
Director
1 film together
Notably A Christmas Gift from Bob
Uta Briesewitz
Director
1 film together
Notably American Sweatshop
Ben Gregor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Magic Faraway Tree
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Bryan Singer
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bohemian RhapsodyToby Haynes
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Doctor Who: A Christmas CarolMatthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kick-AssCharles Martin Smith
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Christmas Gift from BobBille August
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
55 StepsBen Gregor
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 Magic Faraway TreeJames Griffiths
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cuban FuryDavid Twohy
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BelowWilliam Monahan
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
London BoulevardUta Briesewitz
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American SweatshopSix 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
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Magic Faraway Tree
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
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 Plester 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.
Drama Legend
Awarded
10 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
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Kick-Ass
as Danil
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Below
as Motormac
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Kick-Ass
as Danil
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bohemian Rhapsody
as RT Baker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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