Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2276
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tyrese Gibson 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.
Tyrese Gibson appears in 34 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tyrese. Fast X 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, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, western, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gabriel Sabloff, Louis Leterrier, Daniel Espinosa and others, Tyrese Gibson 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.
Fast X (2023) as Roman · Furious 7 (2015) as Roman Pearce · Fast Five (2011) as Roman Pearce
Career snapshot
Ranked #2276 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
34
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Fast X
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Fast Five
Most frequent director
Justin Lin
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Justin Lin
Most common genre
Action
28 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
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
6.3
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
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Fate of the Furious, Ride Along 2, Furious 7 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Death Race, Transformers.
Most productive era
2020s
21 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 | 6.91 film | — | 3.83 films |
| Action | 6.66 films | 6.67 films | 5.815 films |
| Thriller | 6.42 films | 7.04 films | 6.214 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.31 film | 6.32 films |
| Crime | 6.72 films | 7.04 films | 6.96 films |
| Horror | — | 5.91 film | 6.03 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
20032 Fast 2 Furious
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Roman Pearce.
Highest rated performance
2011Fast Five
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2022The System
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Straight Shot
The current state of the argument, as Hunter.
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 Terry Savage
Directed by Unknown
as Roman
Directed by Louis Leterrier
as Roman Pearce
Directed by Justin Lin
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
Terry Savage
The System (2022)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Terry Savage gives Tyrese Gibson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Roman
Fast X (2023)
Performance score7.6
Fast X asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mercer
1992 (2024)
Performance score7.5
1992 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mercer is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roman Pearce
F9 (2021)
Performance score7.4
F9 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roman Pearce 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 Terry Savage
Start here. The System is the clearest statement of what Tyrese Gibson does — accessible, 97 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tyrese 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.
Furious 7 (2015)
Keeps the action register of The System but asks for a colder reading of it.
F9 (2021)
Keeps the action register of Furious 7 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast X (2023)
Keeps the action register of F9 but asks for a colder reading of it.
1992 (2024)
Keeps the action register of Fast X but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Justin Lin
Director
4 films together
Notably Fast Five
Michael Bay
Director
3 films together
Notably Transformers
John Singleton
Director
2 films together
Notably Four Brothers
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Death Race
Scott Stewart
Director
1 film together
Notably Legion
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Furious 7
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Ride Along 2
F. Gary Gray
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fate of the Furious
Chris Columbus
Director
1 film together
Notably The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
David Hackl
Director
1 film together
Notably Dangerous
Daniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably Morbius
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
Gabriel Sabloff
Director
1 film together
Notably Straight Shot
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Justin Lin
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fast FiveMichael Bay
Director
3 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
TransformersJohn Singleton
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Four BrothersLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Furious 7F. Gary Gray
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 Fate of the FuriousChris Columbus
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Christmas Chronicles: Part TwoTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ride Along 2Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death RaceDavid Hackl
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DangerousDaniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MorbiusScott Stewart
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LegionGabriel Sabloff
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Straight ShotSix 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
Fast Five
as Roman Pearce
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 Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
as Bob Booker
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Fast Five
as Roman Pearce
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Vampires of the Velvet Lounge
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The System
as Terry Savage
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. Tyrese Gibson 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
23 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
28 catalogue titles in action, 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
Fast Five
as Roman Pearce
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fast X
as Roman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
as Bob Booker
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Fast & Furious 6
as Roman Pearce
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
F9
as Roman Pearce
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Oscar Shaw
as Ray Jay
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Come Out Fighting
as Sergeant Warran Crecy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fast X
as Roman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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