Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4371
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Todd Terry represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 27 years in, and Todd is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Todd Terry appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Todd. Just One More is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 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 drama, western, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jon Gunn, Rod Lurie, Justin Baldoni and others, Todd Terry 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.
Just One More (2026) as Dr. Henley · Five Feet Apart (2019) as Surgeon · The Unbreakable Boy (2025) as Dick (Scott's Dad)
Career snapshot
Ranked #4371 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
1999–2026
Career length
27 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Just One More
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Just One More
Most frequent director
Jon Gunn
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jon Gunn
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 33m
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
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Arlington Road — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Arlington Road.
Most productive era
2020s
7 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 | 1990s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.94 films | 5.84 films |
| Action | — | — | 4.31 film |
| Thriller | 7.01 film | 7.11 film | 2.12 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.41 film | — |
| Crime | 7.01 film | 6.82 films | 0.01 film |
| Romance | — | 8.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1999Arlington Road
Where our catalogue meets this career, as 2nd Camp Official.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2026Just One More
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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. The current state of the argument, as Dr. Henley.
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 Dr. Henley
Directed by Unknown
as Surgeon
Directed by Justin Baldoni
as SAC Ramey
Directed by Vince Gilligan
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
Dr. Henley
Just One More (2026)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Henley gives Todd Terry a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Surgeon
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Performance score7.9
Five Feet Apart asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Surgeon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dick (Scott's Dad)
The Unbreakable Boy (2025)
Performance score7.5
The Unbreakable Boy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dick (Scott's Dad) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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SAC Ramey
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Performance score7.0
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. SAC Ramey 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 Dr. Henley
Start here. Just One More is the clearest statement of what Todd Terry does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Todd 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.
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Just One More but asks for a colder reading of it.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Five Feet Apart but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Unbreakable Boy (2025)
Keeps the drama register of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Senior (2025)
Keeps the drama register of The Unbreakable Boy but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Mark Pellington
Director
1 film together
Notably Arlington Road
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Old Man & the Gun
Vince Gilligan
Director
1 film together
Notably El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together
Notably Five Feet Apart
Rod Lurie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Senior
Jon Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unbreakable Boy
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Justin Baldoni
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Five Feet ApartJon Gunn
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Unbreakable BoyVince Gilligan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
El Camino: A Breaking Bad MovieMark Pellington
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Arlington RoadRod Lurie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SeniorDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Old Man & the GunSix 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
Five Feet Apart
as Surgeon
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Five Feet Apart
as Surgeon
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Just One More
as Dr. Henley
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Old Man & the Gun
as FBI Agent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Just One More
as Dr. Henley
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. Todd Terry 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
27 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
9 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
Just One More
as Dr. Henley
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Just One More
as Dr. Henley
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Five Feet Apart
as Surgeon
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Arlington Road
as 2nd Camp Official
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Just One More
as Dr. Henley
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Jurassic Games: Extinction
as The Manager
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Old Man & the Gun
as FBI Agent
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
as SAC Ramey
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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