Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#8234
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vince Pisani 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.
Vince Pisani appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vince. The Good Lie is the clearest case: a film rated 7.5 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 action, science fiction, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Anthony Russo, Alex Garland, Richard LaGravenese and others, Vince Pisani 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.
The Good Lie (2014) as INS Boston · The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) as Father Newman · Jungle Cruise (2021) as Boat Tourist
Career snapshot
Ranked #8234 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
2012–2025
Career length
13 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.5
The Good Lie
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
The Good Lie
Most frequent director
Anthony Russo
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Anthony Russo
Most common genre
Comedy
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2020s
6.6 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Electric State, Civil War, A Family Affair — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.6
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Jumanji: The Next Level, Stuber, Tag.
Most productive era
2020s
12 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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.51 film | 6.76 films |
| Action | 6.72 films | 6.73 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.02 films |
| Comedy | 6.45 films | 6.35 films |
| Romance | — | 6.52 films |
| Horror | — | 7.02 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2012American Reunion
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Male Alum.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2014The Good Lie
7.5 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
The current state of the argument, as Science Professor.
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.
18 of 18 films
as Father Newman
Directed by Michael Chaves
as Boat Tourist
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
as Professor Rossencomb
Directed by Unknown
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
INS Boston
The Good Lie (2014)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. INS Boston gives Vince Pisani a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Father Newman
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Performance score7.2
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father Newman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boat Tourist
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Performance score7.2
Jungle Cruise asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boat Tourist is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hotel Manager
After We Collided (2020)
Performance score7.1
After We Collided asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hotel Manager 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 INS Boston
Start here. The Good Lie is the clearest statement of what Vince Pisani does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 7.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vince 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.
After We Collided (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Good Lie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
A deliberate change of key after After We Collided — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jungle Cruise (2021)
A deliberate change of key after The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Burial (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Jungle Cruise — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jon Hurwitz
Director
1 film together
Notably American Reunion
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Christmas Party
Jeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together
Notably Tag
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Stuber
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumanji: The Next Level
Jon Stewart
Director
1 film together
Notably Irresistible
Craig Zobel
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunt
Roger Kumble
Director
1 film together
Notably After We Collided
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Glorias
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Jungle Cruise
Michael Chaves
Director
1 film together
Notably The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Tim Story
Director
1 film together
Notably Dashing Through the Snow
Damian Kulash
Director
1 film together
Notably The Beanie Bubble
Richard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together
Notably A Family Affair
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Civil War
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably The Electric State
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Michael Chaves
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do ItJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jungle CruiseRoger Kumble
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
After We CollidedAlex Garland
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Civil WarJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jumanji: The Next LevelCraig Zobel
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 HuntJeff Tomsic
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TagMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StuberAnthony Russo
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 Electric StateJulie Taymor
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 GloriasDamian Kulash
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 Beanie BubbleJon Hurwitz
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
American ReunionTim Story
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dashing Through the SnowJon Stewart
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IrresistibleRichard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Family AffairJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office Christmas PartySix 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
Jungle Cruise
as Boat Tourist
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
After We Collided
as Hotel Manager
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Good Lie
as INS Boston
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Burial
as Professor Rossencomb
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Good Lie
as INS Boston
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. Vince Pisani 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.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
10 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
as Father Newman
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
as Father Newman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Burial
as Professor Rossencomb
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
as Father Newman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Electric State
as Science Professor
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Electric State
as Science Professor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
After We Collided
as Hotel Manager
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Civil War
as Concierge
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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