Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3390
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Wil Coban 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.
Wil Coban appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Wil. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 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, adventure, sci-fi. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Craig Gillespie, Anthony Maras, James Watkins and others, Wil Coban 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.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) as Tortured Atlantean Soldier · Supergirl (2026) as Brute · Pressure (2026) as Private Tommy Cooper
Career snapshot
Ranked #3390 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2017–2026
Career length
9 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Most frequent director
Craig Gillespie
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Craig Gillespie
Most common genre
Action
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.71 film | 6.52 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | 7.83 films |
| Thriller | — | 4.43 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | 8.11 film |
| Horror | — | 2.92 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2017King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Brother Blackleg.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.2 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
2026Clayface
The current state of the argument, as Bones.
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.
9 of 9 films
as Tortured Atlantean Soldier
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Brute
Directed by Craig Gillespie
as Private Tommy Cooper
Directed by Anthony Maras
as Brute
Directed by Craig Gillespie
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 9 of 9 titles · 9 total credits · active 2017–2026
Pressure
2026 · Private Tommy Cooper
Supergirl
2026 · Brute
Clayface
2026 · Bones
The Boys in the Boat
2023 · Jim McMillin
Haunting of the Queen Mary
2023 · David Ratch
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Tortured Atlantean Soldier
Waiting for the Barbarians
2020 · Mandel's Guard #1
Origin
2018 · TV · Max Taylor
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017 · Brother Blackleg
The defining work
#1
Tortured Atlantean Soldier
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Tortured Atlantean Soldier gives Wil Coban a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Brute
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score7.8
Supergirl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brute is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Private Tommy Cooper
Pressure (2026)
Performance score7.2
Pressure asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Private Tommy Cooper is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Brute
Supergirl (2026)
Performance score6.9
Supergirl asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Brute 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 Tortured Atlantean Soldier
Start here. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest statement of what Wil Coban does — accessible, 242 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Wil 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 Boys in the Boat (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Zack Snyder's Justice League — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Supergirl (2026)
A deliberate change of key after The Boys in the Boat — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Pressure (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Supergirl — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Supergirl (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Pressure — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Craig Gillespie
Director
2 films together
Notably Supergirl
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Ciro Guerra
Director
1 film together
Notably Waiting for the Barbarians
Zack Snyder
Director
1 film together
Notably Zack Snyder's Justice League
George Clooney
Director
1 film together
Notably The Boys in the Boat
James Watkins
Director
1 film together
Notably Clayface
Anthony Maras
Director
1 film together
Notably Pressure
David Krumholtz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Milly Alcock
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Eve Ridley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Matthias Schoenaerts
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Jason Momoa
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Emily Beecham
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
David Corenswet
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Kadiff Kirwan
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Thalissa Teixeira
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Ferdinand Kingsley
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Emily Piggford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Diarmaid Murtagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Supergirl
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Craig Gillespie
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
SupergirlZack Snyder
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zack Snyder's Justice LeagueAnthony Maras
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PressureGeorge Clooney
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Boys in the BoatGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
King Arthur: Legend of the SwordCiro Guerra
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Waiting for the BarbariansJames Watkins
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ClayfaceSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Wil Coban
Where this journey starts
Director
Craig Gillespie
2 collaborations, averaging 7.5
Film
Supergirl
Their highest-rated film together (2026)
Performer
David Krumholtz
Shares the frame in Supergirl
Film
Oppenheimer
Where David goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Matt Damon
Three steps from where you began
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Supergirl
as Brute
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 Boys in the Boat
as Jim McMillin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Tortured Atlantean Soldier
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Tortured Atlantean Soldier
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Tortured Atlantean Soldier
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. Wil Coban has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.5 | 7.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #627 of 681 | #487 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | Unknown |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | Unknown |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.1 | 8.6 |
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama |
| Directors | Craig Gillespie | Craig Gillespie, Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Physical performance, Action, Screen presence | Screen presence, Transformation, Drama |
| Career timeline | 2026–2026 | 2023–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Brute — Supergirl | Isidor Rabi — Oppenheimer |
| Most rewatchable film | Supergirl | Oppenheimer |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 2 catalogue films |
Films together
Supergirl
Shared directors
craig-gillespie
Shared collections
Action Movies, Adventure Movies, Sci-Fi Movies
Collaborators in common
Craig Gillespie · Milly Alcock · Eve Ridley · Matthias Schoenaerts · Jason Momoa · Emily Beecham · David Corenswet · Kadiff Kirwan
David Krumholtz edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
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.
Action Legend
Awarded
4 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
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Tortured Atlantean Soldier
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Supergirl
as Brute
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Boys in the Boat
as Jim McMillin
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Haunting of the Queen Mary
as David Ratch
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Tortured Atlantean Soldier
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Supergirl
as Brute
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Boys in the Boat
as Jim McMillin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Supergirl
as Brute
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 3 Nutevio collections
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