Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#26944
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Vladimir Putin works on quiet performance 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.
Vladimir Putin appears in 14 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vladimir. Greenland: The Icy Eldorado is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, versatility, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for tv movie, documentary, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Borenstein, Christopher Cassel, Daniel Roher and others, Vladimir Putin 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.
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado (2025) as Self (archive footage) · To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023) as Self (archive footage) · The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump (2024) as Self (archive footage)
Career snapshot
Ranked #26944 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
14
2019–2026
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
Average Nutevio score
5.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
Most frequent director
David Borenstein
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With David Borenstein
Most common genre
Documentary
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 20m
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
6.2
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
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mike Wallace Is Here, Brexit: The Uncivil War — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
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. Mike Wallace Is Here, Brexit: The Uncivil War.
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 | 6.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Self (archive footage).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2025Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 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
2026Putin and Trump · Best of Enemies?
The current state of the argument, as Self (Archive footage).
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.
14 of 14 films
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by David Borenstein
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Christopher Cassel
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Daniel Roher
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
Self (archive footage)
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado (2025)
Performance score8.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self (archive footage) gives Vladimir Putin a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
View movie#2
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Performance score7.7
Mr. Nobody Against Putin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#3
Self (archive footage)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023)
Performance score7.5
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Self (archive footage)
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump (2024)
Performance score7.4
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self (archive footage)
Start here. Greenland: The Icy Eldorado is the clearest statement of what Vladimir Putin does — accessible, 56 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vladimir 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.
Navalny (2022)
Keeps the documentary register of Greenland: The Icy Eldorado but asks for a colder reading of it.
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023)
Keeps the documentary register of Navalny but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump (2024)
Keeps the history register of To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Keeps the documentary register of The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Toby Haynes
Director
1 film together
Notably Brexit: The Uncivil War
Avi Belkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Mike Wallace Is Here
Daniel Roher
Director
1 film together
Notably Navalny
Christopher Cassel
Director
1 film together
Notably To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
David Borenstein
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Cassel
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic BombDavid Borenstein
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. Nobody Against PutinDaniel Roher
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NavalnyToby Haynes
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brexit: The Uncivil WarAvi Belkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mike Wallace Is HereSix 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
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Self (archive footage)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
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. Vladimir Putin 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.
Documentary Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in documentary, 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
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Self (archive footage)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
as Self (archive footage)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Greenland: The Icy Eldorado
as Self (archive footage)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Brexit: The Uncivil War
as Self (archive footage)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Navalny
as Self (archive footage)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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