Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#962
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vincent Cassel represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 32 years in, and Vincent is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Vincent Cassel appears in 38 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vincent. Shrek is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 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 action, history, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Asghar Farhadi, David Cronenberg, Terry McDonough and others, Vincent Cassel 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.
Shrek (2001) as Monsieur Hood (voice) · La Haine (1995) as Vinz · The Specials (2019) as Bruno Haroche
Career snapshot
Ranked #962 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
38
1995–2027
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
Shrek
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
La Haine
Most frequent director
David Cronenberg
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Cronenberg
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
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
7.0 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Irreversible Odyssey, The Specials, Jason Bourne — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.0
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
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. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Guest House Paradiso, Elizabeth.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.14 films | 6.82 films | 7.34 films | 5.75 films |
| Action | 6.52 films | 6.12 films | 6.41 film | 4.26 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.68 films | 6.74 films | 5.73 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 6.92 films | 7.81 film | 3.84 films |
| Crime | 6.51 film | 6.86 films | 6.42 films | 5.61 film |
| Romance | 6.81 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.32 films | 7.71 film | 6.12 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1995La Haine
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Vinz. 8.0 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.
Most recent film
2027The Last Druid
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.
38 of 38 films
as Bruno Haroche
Directed by Olivier Nakache
as Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
as Monsieur Hood (voice)
Directed by Andrew Adamson
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
Vinz
La Haine (1995)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Vinz gives Vincent Cassel a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Bruno Haroche
The Specials (2019)
Performance score8.3
The Specials asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bruno Haroche is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman
Black Swan (2010)
Performance score8.0
Black Swan asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Monsieur Hood (voice)
Shrek (2001)
Performance score8.0
Shrek asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Monsieur Hood (voice) 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 Vinz
Start here. La Haine is the clearest statement of what Vincent Cassel does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vincent 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.
Shrek (2001)
A deliberate change of key after La Haine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Black Swan (2010)
A deliberate change of key after Shrek — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Specials (2019)
Keeps the drama register of Black Swan but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Irreversible Odyssey (2019)
A deliberate change of key after The Specials — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Cronenberg
Director
3 films together
Notably Eastern Promises
Mathieu Kassovitz
Director
2 films together
Notably La Haine
Martin Bourboulon
Director
2 films together
Notably The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Shekhar Kapur
Director
1 film together
Notably Elizabeth
Adrian Edmondson
Director
1 film together
Notably Guest House Paradiso
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Andrew Adamson
Director
1 film together
Notably Shrek
Mikael Håfström
Director
1 film together
Notably Derailed
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Swan
Danny Boyle
Director
1 film together
Notably Trance
Daniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably Child 44
Xavier Dolan
Director
1 film together
Notably It's Only the End of the World
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably Jason Bourne
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together
Notably The Specials
Liz Garbus
Director
1 film together
Notably Becoming Cousteau
Terry McDonough
Director
1 film together
Notably Damaged
Asghar Farhadi
Director
1 film together
Notably Parallel Tales
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Cronenberg
Director
3 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Eastern PromisesMathieu Kassovitz
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
La HaineMartin Bourboulon
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
The Three Musketeers: D'ArtagnanAndrew Adamson
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ShrekOlivier Nakache
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SpecialsDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black SwanXavier Dolan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
It's Only the End of the WorldShekhar Kapur
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ElizabethLiz Garbus
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Becoming CousteauDanny Boyle
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TranceLuc Besson
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 Messenger: The Story of Joan of ArcPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jason BourneMikael Håfström
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DerailedDaniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Child 44Adrian Edmondson
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Guest House ParadisoAsghar Farhadi
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Parallel TalesTerry McDonough
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DamagedSix 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
The Specials
as Bruno Haroche
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 Apartment
as Max
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
La Haine
as Vinz
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Ocean's Thirteen
as François Toulour
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
La Haine
as Vinz
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. Vincent Cassel 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
32 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
15 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
Shrek
as Monsieur Hood (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Black Swan
as Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Apartment
as Max
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Shrouds
as Karsh Relikh
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Shrek
as Monsieur Hood (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
as Athos
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Shrek
as Monsieur Hood (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Shrek
as Monsieur Hood (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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