Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19781
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
William Belleau 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.
William Belleau appears in 9 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without William. Killers of the Flower Moon is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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, thriller, western. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rebecca Thomas, Ari Aster, Ranjit Samra and others, William Belleau 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.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) as Henry Roan · The Unforgivable (2021) as Bob Farrior · Wardriver (2026) as Doug
Career snapshot
Ranked #19781 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
9
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Killers of the Flower Moon
Average Nutevio score
5.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
The Unforgivable
Most frequent director
Rebecca Thomas
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Rebecca Thomas
Most common genre
Crime
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2020s
5.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Wardriver, Eddington, Lifers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.9
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.9
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. Blood Quantum, Blackway, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
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 | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 4.93 films |
| Thriller | 5.31 film | 4.83 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.82 films |
| Crime | — | 7.24 films |
| Romance | 6.21 film | — |
| Horror | 5.81 film | 7.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Quileute Warrior.
Highest rated performance
2021The Unforgivable
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak · Most recent film
2026Wardriver
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once. The current state of the argument, as Doug.
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 Doug
Directed by Rebecca Thomas
as Henry Roan
Directed by Martin Scorsese
as Bob Farrior
Directed by Unknown
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
Doug
Wardriver (2026)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Doug gives William Belleau a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Henry Roan
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Performance score7.2
Killers of the Flower Moon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Henry Roan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Bob Farrior
The Unforgivable (2021)
Performance score7.2
The Unforgivable asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Bob Farrior is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Man
Fresh (2022)
Performance score6.9
Fresh asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Man 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 Doug
Start here. Wardriver is the clearest statement of what William Belleau does — accessible, 93 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet William 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 Unforgivable (2021)
Keeps the crime register of Wardriver but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fresh (2022)
A deliberate change of key after The Unforgivable — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Fresh — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Eddington (2025)
Keeps the crime register of Killers of the Flower Moon but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Slade
Director
1 film together
Notably The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Mimi Cave
Director
1 film together
Notably Fresh
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together
Notably Killers of the Flower Moon
Ranjit Samra
Director
1 film together
Notably Lifers
Ari Aster
Director
1 film together
Notably Eddington
Rebecca Thomas
Director
1 film together
Notably Wardriver
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Scorsese
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killers of the Flower MoonRebecca Thomas
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WardriverMimi Cave
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreshAri Aster
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EddingtonDavid Slade
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Twilight Saga: EclipseRanjit Samra
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LifersSix 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
The Unforgivable
as Bob Farrior
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 Twilight Saga: Eclipse
as Quileute Warrior
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 Unforgivable
as Bob Farrior
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
as Quileute Warrior
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Wardriver
as Doug
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. William Belleau 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.
Crime Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in crime, 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 Unforgivable
as Bob Farrior
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Wardriver
as Doug
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
as Quileute Warrior
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blackway
as Middle logger
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Unforgivable
as Bob Farrior
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Eddington
as Officer Butterfly Jimenez
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Killers of the Flower Moon
as Henry Roan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fresh
as Man
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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