Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#582
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Vincent Regan 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 Regan appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vincent. Free Fall is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 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, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nick Nevern, James Wan, Jamie Payne and others, Vincent Regan 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.
Free Fall (2021) as Mark · 300 (2007) as Captain · Troy (2004) as Eudorus
Career snapshot
Ranked #582 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1994–2026
Career length
32 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Free Fall
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Free Fall
Most frequent director
Louis Leterrier
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Louis Leterrier
Most common genre
Action
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 46m
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
2000s
7.0 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. 300, Unleashed, Troy — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.9
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, Black Beauty.
Most productive era
2020s
6 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 | 6.62 films | — | 5.21 film | 7.32 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 7.33 films | 5.52 films | 3.42 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.21 film | 5.23 films | 4.94 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | 5.21 film | 3.32 films |
| Horror | — | — | 5.31 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1994Black Beauty
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Sleazy Horse Dealer.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Free Fall
8.1 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
2026Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution
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.
16 of 16 films
as Captain
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Eudorus
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
as Raffles
Directed by Louis Leterrier
as Pilate
Directed by Ciarán Donnelly
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
Mark
Free Fall (2021)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Mark gives Vincent Regan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Captain
300 (2007)
Performance score7.5
300 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Captain is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Eudorus
Troy (2004)
Performance score7.2
Troy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Eudorus is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Raffles
Unleashed (2005)
Performance score7.1
Unleashed asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Raffles 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 Mark
Start here. Free Fall is the clearest statement of what Vincent Regan does — accessible, 19 minutes, and rated 8.1 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.
Troy (2004)
A deliberate change of key after Free Fall — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Unleashed (2005)
Keeps the action register of Troy but asks for a colder reading of it.
300 (2007)
Keeps the action register of Unleashed but asks for a colder reading of it.
Resurrection (2021)
A deliberate change of key after 300 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Louis Leterrier
Director
2 films together
Notably Unleashed
Caroline Thompson
Director
1 film together
Notably Black Beauty
Luc Besson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Director
1 film together
Notably Ordinary Decent Criminal
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably Troy
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably 300
Brian Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Ciarán Donnelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Resurrection
Jamie Payne
Director
1 film together
Notably Luther: The Fallen Sun
James Wan
Director
1 film together
Notably Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Nick Nevern
Director
1 film together
Notably Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Louis Leterrier
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
UnleashedZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
300Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TroyJames Wan
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Aquaman and the Lost KingdomCaroline Thompson
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Black BeautyJamie Payne
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Luther: The Fallen SunCiarán Donnelly
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ResurrectionLuc 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 ArcThaddeus O'Sullivan
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ordinary Decent CriminalBrian Taylor
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghost Rider: Spirit of VengeanceNick Nevern
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rise of the Footsoldier: RetributionSix 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
300
as Captain
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Black Beauty
as Sleazy Horse Dealer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Free Fall
as Mark
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Buck
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Free Fall
as Mark
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 Regan 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.
Action Legend
Awarded
8 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
Free Fall
as Mark
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Free Fall
as Mark
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Black Beauty
as Sleazy Horse Dealer
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Luther: The Fallen Sun
as Dennis McCabe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
300
as Captain
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
as Atlan
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
300
as Captain
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Troy
as Eudorus
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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