Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#22375
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Tim Rose represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 42 years in, and Tim is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tim Rose appears in 7 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tim. Return of the Jedi 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 documentary, action, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Chris Chapman, Rian Johnson, J.J. Abrams and others, Tim Rose 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.
Return of the Jedi (1983) as Admiral Ackbar · Return to Narnia (2025) as Self · Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as Admiral Ackbar
Career snapshot
Ranked #22375 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
7
1983–2025
Career length
42 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Return of the Jedi
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Return to Narnia
Most frequent director
Chris Chapman
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Chris Chapman
Most common genre
Adventure
5 titles
Average runtime
2h 3m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.0
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
2020s
8.0 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Return to Narnia — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.0
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. Howard the Duck, Return to Oz, Return of the Jedi.
Most productive era
1980s
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 | 1980s | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.21 film | — | — |
| Action | 8.11 film | — | 7.32 films | — |
| Comedy | 5.51 film | 7.21 film | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Admiral Ackbar. 8.1 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
2025Return to Narnia
The current state of the argument, as Self.
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.
7 of 7 films
as Self
Directed by Chris Chapman
as Admiral Ackbar
Directed by Richard Marquand
as Admiral Ackbar
Directed by J.J. Abrams
as Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
Directed by Brian Henson
as Admiral Ackbar
Directed by Rian Johnson
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
Self
Return to Narnia (2025)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Tim Rose a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Admiral Ackbar
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Performance score7.8
Return of the Jedi asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Admiral Ackbar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Admiral Ackbar
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Performance score7.3
Star Wars: The Force Awakens asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Admiral Ackbar is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Performance score7.1
The Muppet Christmas Carol asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Additional Muppet Performer (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 Self
Start here. Return to Narnia is the clearest statement of what Tim Rose does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 8.0 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.
Return of the Jedi (1983)
A deliberate change of key after Return to Narnia — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
A deliberate change of key after Return of the Jedi — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
A deliberate change of key after The Muppet Christmas Carol — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
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.
Richard Marquand
Director
1 film together
Notably Return of the Jedi
Walter Murch
Director
1 film together
Notably Return to Oz
Willard Huyck
Director
1 film together
Notably Howard the Duck
Brian Henson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Muppet Christmas Carol
J.J. Abrams
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Rian Johnson
Director
1 film together
Notably Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Chris Chapman
Director
1 film together
Notably Return to Narnia
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Marquand
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return of the JediChris Chapman
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return to NarniaJ.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 AwakensBrian Henson
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Muppet Christmas CarolRian Johnson
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Star Wars: The Last JediWalter Murch
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return to OzWillard Huyck
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Howard the DuckSix 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
Return of the Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
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 Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Return of the Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Return to Narnia
as Self
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 Rose 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
42 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.
Adventure Legend
Awarded
5 catalogue titles in adventure, 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
Return of the Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Return of the Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Return to Oz
as Tik Tok
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Return of the Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Muppet Christmas Carol
as Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Admiral Ackbar
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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