Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#938
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tom Hollander represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 25 years in, and Tom is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tom Hollander appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tom. Pride & Prejudice is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, drama, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Greengrass, Charlie Mackesy, David Silverman and others, Tom Hollander 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.
Pride & Prejudice (2005) as Mr. Collins · Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) as Jim Beach · About Time (2013) as Harry
Career snapshot
Ranked #938 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
2001–2026
Career length
25 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Pride & Prejudice
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Most frequent director
Joe Wright
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Joe Wright
Most common genre
Drama
23 titles
Average runtime
1h 49m
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
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again, Holy Lands, Bohemian Rhapsody — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 15 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. The Soloist, Valkyrie, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Most productive era
2010s
15 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 | 6.610 films | 6.811 films | 3.92 films |
| Action | 6.83 films | 6.92 films | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | 6.44 films | 6.72 films | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 6.12 films | 6.92 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | — | 6.31 film | — |
| Romance | 6.57 films | 6.95 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2001Enigma
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Logie.
Highest rated performance
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2013About Time
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Uprising
The current state of the argument.
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.
34 of 34 films
as The Mole (voice)
Directed by Charlie Mackesy
as Harry
Directed by Richard Curtis
as Bloggs Blacker / David Blacker
Directed by Andy Serkis
From the library
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The defining work
#1
The Mole (voice)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The Mole (voice) gives Tom Hollander a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Harry
About Time (2013)
Performance score8.0
About Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Harry is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Collins
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Performance score7.9
Pride & Prejudice asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Collins is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jim Beach
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Performance score7.8
Bohemian Rhapsody asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jim Beach 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 The Mole (voice)
Start here. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is the clearest statement of what Tom Hollander does — accessible, 35 minutes, and rated 7.7 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.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Keeps the drama register of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse but asks for a colder reading of it.
About Time (2013)
Keeps the romance register of Pride & Prejudice but asks for a colder reading of it.
Breathe (2017)
Keeps the romance register of About Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Breathe but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joe Wright
Director
3 films together
Notably Pride & Prejudice
Gore Verbinski
Director
2 films together
Notably Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Andy Serkis
Director
2 films together
Notably Breathe
Bryan Singer
Director
2 films together
Notably Bohemian Rhapsody
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably Gosford Park
Michael Apted
Director
1 film together
Notably Enigma
Neil LaBute
Director
1 film together
Notably Possession
Paul Abascal
Director
1 film together
Notably Paparazzi
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably A Good Year
Shekhar Kapur
Director
1 film together
Notably Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Ralph Fiennes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Invisible Woman
Richard Curtis
Director
1 film together
Notably About Time
Lone Scherfig
Director
1 film together
Notably The Riot Club
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets Most Wanted
Christopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Terry George
Director
1 film together
Notably The Promise
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Tulip Fever
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Bird Box
Ed Bye
Director
1 film together
Notably Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Matt Lipsey
Director
1 film together
Notably Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Matthew Vaughn
Director
1 film together
Notably The King's Man
David Silverman
Director
1 film together
Notably Extinct
Charlie Mackesy
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably The Uprising
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Joe Wright
Director
3 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pride & PrejudiceBryan Singer
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Bohemian RhapsodyGore Verbinski
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ChestAndy Serkis
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
BreatheRichard Curtis
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
About TimeCharlie Mackesy
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 Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the HorseEd Bye
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet AgainChristopher McQuarrie
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible - Rogue NationTerry George
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PromiseSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bird BoxRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gosford ParkMatthew Vaughn
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 King's ManShekhar Kapur
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Elizabeth: The Golden AgeRidley Scott
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 Good YearJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tulip FeverMatt Lipsey
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for ChristmasJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets Most WantedMichael Apted
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EnigmaDavid Silverman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ExtinctNeil LaBute
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PossessionLone Scherfig
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Riot ClubRalph Fiennes
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Invisible WomanPaul Abascal
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PaparazziPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The UprisingSix 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
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Collins
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Collins
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pride & Prejudice
as Mr. Collins
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Muppets Most Wanted
as Theater Manager
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
as The Mole (voice)
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 Hollander 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
25 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
23 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
About Time
as Harry
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Timekeepers of Eternity
as Harker (archive footage)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
as The Mole (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gosford Park
as Anthony Meredith
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Cutler Beckett
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The King's Man
as King George / Kaiser Wilhelm / Tsar Nicholas
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
as The Mole (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Cutler Beckett
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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