Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4385
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vincent Laresca represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 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 Laresca appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vincent. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 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 crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Quentin Tarantino, Anne Fletcher, Marc Webb and others, Vincent Laresca 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.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) as Land Pirate Vincent · The Devil's Advocate (1997) as Big Guy #1 · Coach Carter (2005) as Renny
Career snapshot
Ranked #4385 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1995–2023
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Coach Carter
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 55m
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
6.6
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
1990s
6.8 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Devil's Advocate, Cop Land, Romeo + Juliet — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.8
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
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 Devil's Advocate, Cop Land, Romeo + Juliet.
Most productive era
2000s
9 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 | 7.04 films | 6.67 films | 6.73 films | 6.11 film |
| Action | 5.91 film | 6.82 films | 6.32 films | — |
| Thriller | 6.81 film | 6.33 films | 6.73 films | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | 5.91 film | 6.52 films | 6.72 films | — |
| Crime | 6.32 films | 6.34 films | 5.61 film | 6.11 film |
| Romance | 6.91 film | — | — | — |
| Horror | 7.61 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Money Train
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Subway Robber.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.6 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
2023Inside Man
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.
20 of 20 films
as Land Pirate Vincent
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Big Guy #1
Directed by Taylor Hackford
as Renny
Directed by Thomas Carter
as Aurelio
Directed by Shane Black
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
Land Pirate Vincent
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Land Pirate Vincent gives Vincent Laresca a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Big Guy #1
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Performance score7.4
The Devil's Advocate asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Big Guy #1 is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Renny
Coach Carter (2005)
Performance score7.3
Coach Carter asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Renny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Aurelio
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Performance score7.1
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Aurelio 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 Land Pirate Vincent
Start here. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is the clearest statement of what Vincent Laresca does — accessible, 162 minutes, and rated 7.6 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.
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Keeps the drama register of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Aviator (2004)
Keeps the drama register of The Devil's Advocate but asks for a colder reading of it.
Coach Carter (2005)
Keeps the drama register of The Aviator but asks for a colder reading of it.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
A deliberate change of key after Coach Carter — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Baz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together
Notably Romeo + Juliet
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Cop Land
Taylor Hackford
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil's Advocate
Steve Buscemi
Director
1 film together
Notably Animal Factory
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably The Aviator
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Lords of Dogtown
Shane Black
Director
1 film together
Notably Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Thomas Carter
Director
1 film together
Notably Coach Carter
Gary Lennon
Director
1 film together
Notably .45
Justin Lin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Steven Brill
Director
1 film together
Notably Drillbit Taylor
Gregor Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Unthinkable
Marc Webb
Director
1 film together
Notably The Amazing Spider-Man
Anne Fletcher
Director
1 film together
Notably Hot Pursuit
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time... in HollywoodTaylor Hackford
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil's AdvocateThomas Carter
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Coach CarterShane Black
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Kiss Kiss Bang BangMartin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The AviatorCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lords of DogtownMarc Webb
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Amazing Spider-ManBaz Luhrmann
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Romeo + JulietGregor Jordan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnthinkableJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cop LandJustin Lin
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo DriftSteve Buscemi
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Animal FactorySteven Brill
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Drillbit TaylorAnne Fletcher
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hot PursuitGary Lennon
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
.45Six 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
Coach Carter
as Renny
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Romeo + Juliet
as Abra
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 Devil's Advocate
as Big Guy #1
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Land Pirate Vincent
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as Land Pirate Vincent
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 Laresca 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
28 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
The Devil's Advocate
as Big Guy #1
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Devil's Advocate
as Big Guy #1
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Romeo + Juliet
as Abra
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
as Aurelio
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Construction Worker
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Construction Worker
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Coach Carter
as Renny
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Construction Worker
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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