Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26764
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Vincent De Paul 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.
Vincent De Paul appears in 13 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vincent. Secret Society 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 action, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Matt Shapira, Michael Almereyda, Gabriel Sabloff and others, Vincent De Paul 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.
Secret Society (2021) as Derek Rossi · Love on the Rock (2021) as Gian Carlo · Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) as Linebacker
Career snapshot
Ranked #26764 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
13
2001–2025
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Secret Society
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Secret Society
Most frequent director
Matt Shapira
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Matt Shapira
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
2000s
6.4 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Angels & Demons, Poseidon, Transporter 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.4
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.4
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. Angels & Demons, Poseidon, Transporter 2.
Most productive era
2020s
8 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 | 6.32 films | — | 6.34 films |
| Action | 6.12 films | — | 6.23 films |
| Thriller | 6.33 films | — | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.81 film | 5.81 film | — |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.82 films |
| Horror | — | — | 4.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Linebacker.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Secret Society
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.
Most recent film
2025A Line of Fire
The current state of the argument, as Marcello.
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.
13 of 13 films
as Gian Carlo
Directed by Matt Shapira
as Vatican Pall Bearer (uncredited)
Directed by Ron Howard
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Derek Rossi
Secret Society (2021)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Derek Rossi gives Vincent De Paul a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Gian Carlo
Love on the Rock (2021)
Performance score6.7
Love on the Rock asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gian Carlo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Linebacker
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Performance score6.7
Riding in Cars with Boys asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Linebacker is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Coach Hamilton
Nothing Is Impossible (2022)
Performance score6.6
Nothing Is Impossible asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Coach Hamilton 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 Derek Rossi
Start here. Secret Society is the clearest statement of what Vincent De Paul does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 7.2 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.
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Keeps the drama register of Secret Society but asks for a colder reading of it.
Angels & Demons (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Riding in Cars with Boys — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Love on the Rock (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Angels & Demons — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Nothing Is Impossible (2022)
Same director as Love on the Rock, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Matt Shapira
Director
3 films together
Notably Love on the Rock
Penny Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Riding in Cars with Boys
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Transporter 2
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Poseidon
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Angels & Demons
Gabriel Sabloff
Director
1 film together
Notably Beckman
Michael Almereyda
Director
1 film together
Notably Tesla
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Matt Shapira
Director
3 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Love on the RockPenny Marshall
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Riding in Cars with BoysRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Angels & DemonsLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transporter 2Gabriel Sabloff
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeckmanWolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PoseidonMichael Almereyda
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TeslaSix 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
Riding in Cars with Boys
as Linebacker
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Nothing Is Impossible
as Coach Hamilton
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Secret Society
as Derek Rossi
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Angels & Demons
as Vatican Pall Bearer (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Secret Society
as Derek Rossi
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 De Paul 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
24 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
Angels & Demons
as Vatican Pall Bearer (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Angels & Demons
as Vatican Pall Bearer (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Nothing Is Impossible
as Coach Hamilton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Angels & Demons
as Vatican Pall Bearer (uncredited)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Love on the Rock
as Gian Carlo
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Poseidon
as Passenger #4
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Nothing Is Impossible
as Coach Hamilton
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Tesla
as Westinghouse Assistant
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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