Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8890
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tom Aldredge 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.
Tom Aldredge appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tom. Taking Chance is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 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 war, tv movie, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ross Katz, Andrew Dominik, Steven Zaillian and others, Tom Aldredge 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.
Taking Chance (2009) as Charlie Fitts · The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) as Major George Hite · Rounders (1998) as Judge Marinacci
Career snapshot
Ranked #8890 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
1987–2009
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Taking Chance
Average Nutevio score
6.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Taking Chance
Most frequent director
Ross Katz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ross Katz
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
2h 0m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.8 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Taking Chance, My Sassy Girl, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.8
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. *batteries not included.
Most productive era
2000s
5 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 | 2000s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.53 films | 6.73 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.71 film | — | 6.81 film |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.31 film | 6.82 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sid Hogenson.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
2009Taking Chance
7.2 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 Charlie Fitts.
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 Charlie Fitts
Directed by Ross Katz
as Old Man
Directed by Unknown
as Major George Hite
Directed by Andrew Dominik
as Blind Man
Directed by Anthony Minghella
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
Charlie Fitts
Taking Chance (2009)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Charlie Fitts gives Tom Aldredge a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Old Man
My Sassy Girl (2008)
Performance score7.0
My Sassy Girl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Old Man is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Major George Hite
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Performance score7.0
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Major George Hite is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Judge Marinacci
Rounders (1998)
Performance score6.9
Rounders asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Judge Marinacci 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 Charlie Fitts
Start here. Taking Chance is the clearest statement of what Tom Aldredge does — accessible, 77 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tom 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.
Rounders (1998)
Keeps the drama register of Taking Chance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cold Mountain (2003)
A deliberate change of key after Rounders — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
A deliberate change of key after Cold Mountain — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
My Sassy Girl (2008)
A deliberate change of key after The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matthew Robbins
Director
1 film together
Notably *batteries not included
Stephen Sommers
Director
1 film together
Notably The Adventures of Huck Finn
John Dahl
Director
1 film together
Notably Rounders
Luis Mandoki
Director
1 film together
Notably Message in a Bottle
Anthony Minghella
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Mountain
Steven Zaillian
Director
1 film together
Notably All the King's Men
Andrew Dominik
Director
1 film together
Notably The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together
Notably Taking Chance
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ross Katz
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Taking ChanceAndrew Dominik
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordJohn Dahl
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoundersAnthony Minghella
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold MountainMatthew Robbins
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
*batteries not includedLuis Mandoki
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Message in a BottleStephen Sommers
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 Adventures of Huck FinnSteven Zaillian
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the King's MenSix 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
Rounders
as Judge Marinacci
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cold Mountain
as Blind Man
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Taking Chance
as Charlie Fitts
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rounders
as Judge Marinacci
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Taking Chance
as Charlie Fitts
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. Tom Aldredge 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
22 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
6 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
Taking Chance
as Charlie Fitts
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Rounders
as Judge Marinacci
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Cold Mountain
as Blind Man
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Rounders
as Judge Marinacci
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Major George Hite
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Major George Hite
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Major George Hite
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
as Major George Hite
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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