Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3156
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Wood Harris represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Wood is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Wood Harris appears in 16 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Wood. Blade Runner 2049 is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 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 comedy, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael B. Jordan, Chris Robinson and others, Wood Harris 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.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Nandez · Shooting Stars (2023) as Dru Joyce II · Blade Runner 2049 (2017) as Nandez
Career snapshot
Ranked #3156 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
16
1997–2025
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Blade Runner 2049
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Blade Runner 2049
Most frequent director
Denis Villeneuve
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Denis Villeneuve
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
2h 4m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
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
7.0
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
7.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Remember the Titans — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
2 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Creed II, Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner 2049.
Most productive era
2010s
7 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 | 6.63 films | 7.71 film | 7.84 films | 7.42 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | — | 6.64 films | 7.11 film |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | — | 5.21 film | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | — | 5.21 film | 7.02 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | 9.21 film | — |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | — | 7.41 film |
| Romance | 7.41 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Cafe 24 Busboy.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 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
The current state of the argument, as Laredo.
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 Nandez
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Dru Joyce II
Directed by Chris Robinson
as Nandez
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
as Laredo
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
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 21 of 21 titles · 21 total credits · active 1997–2025
One Battle After Another
2025 · Laredo
FOREVER
2025 · TV · Eric Edwards
Lady in the Lake
2024 · TV · Shell Gordon
Creed III
2023 · Tony 'Little Duke' Evers
Shooting Stars
2023 · Dru Joyce II
Space Jam: A New Legacy
2021 · Coach C
BMF
2021 · TV · Pat
Always and Forever
2020 · Danny
Creed II
2018 · Tony 'Little Duke' Evers
Blade Runner 2049
2017 · Nandez
Once Upon a Time in Venice
2017 · The Prince
Ant-Man
2015 · Gale
Creed
2015 · Tony 'Little Duke' Burton
Empire
2015 · TV · Damon Cross
Dredd
2012 · Kay
The Twilight Zone
2002 · TV · Marvin Gardens / Dwayne Grant
The Wire
2002 · TV · Avon Barksdale
Remember the Titans
2000 · Julius Campbell
Celebrity
1998 · Al Swayze
The Siege
1998 · Officer Henderson
As Good as It Gets
1997 · Cafe 24 Busboy
The defining work
#1
Nandez
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Nandez gives Wood Harris a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Julius Campbell
Remember the Titans (2000)
Performance score8.0
Remember the Titans asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Julius Campbell is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Dru Joyce II
Shooting Stars (2023)
Performance score7.8
Shooting Stars asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dru Joyce II is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nandez
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Performance score7.6
Blade Runner 2049 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nandez 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 Nandez
Start here. Blade Runner 2049 is the clearest statement of what Wood Harris does — accessible, 164 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Wood 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.
Remember the Titans (2000)
Keeps the drama register of Blade Runner 2049 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Keeps the drama register of Remember the Titans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Shooting Stars (2023)
Keeps the drama register of Blade Runner 2049 but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Battle After Another (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Shooting Stars — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
James L. Brooks
Director
1 film together
Notably As Good as It Gets
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Siege
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Celebrity
Boaz Yakin
Director
1 film together
Notably Remember the Titans
Pete Travis
Director
1 film together
Notably Dredd
Ryan Coogler
Director
1 film together
Notably Creed
Peyton Reed
Director
1 film together
Notably Ant-Man
Robb Cullen
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Time in Venice
Steven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together
Notably Creed II
Malcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably Space Jam: A New Legacy
Chris Robinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Shooting Stars
Michael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together
Notably Creed III
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably One Battle After Another
Ryan Gosling
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Harrison Ford
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Ana de Armas
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Dave Bautista
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Robin Wright
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Sylvia Hoeks
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Mackenzie Davis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Jared Leto
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Carla Juri
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Hiam Abbass
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Lennie James
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Blade Runner 2049
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Denis Villeneuve
Director
2 films together · 8.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Blade Runner 2049Chris Robinson
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shooting StarsBoaz Yakin
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Remember the TitansPaul Thomas Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Battle After AnotherRyan Coogler
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CreedJames L. Brooks
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
As Good as It GetsPeyton Reed
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ant-ManMichael B. Jordan
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Creed IIISteven Caple Jr.
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Creed IIPete Travis
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DreddMalcolm D. Lee
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Space Jam: A New LegacyEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The SiegeWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CelebrityRobb Cullen
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a Time in VeniceSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Wood Harris
Where this journey starts
Director
Denis Villeneuve
2 collaborations, averaging 8.5
Film
Blade Runner 2049
Their highest-rated film together (2017)
Performer
Jared Leto
Shares the frame in Blade Runner 2049
Film
Fight Club
Where Jared goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Brad Pitt
Three steps from where you began
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2018
Blade Runner 2049
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
As Good as It Gets
as Cafe 24 Busboy
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
As Good as It Gets
as Cafe 24 Busboy
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
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. Wood Harris has known it for a long time.”
“You've never seen a miracle.”
“Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.3 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #104 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Denis Villeneuve | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Drama, Screen presence, Quiet performance | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2017–2017 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Nandez — Blade Runner 2049 | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Blade Runner 2049 | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Mystery Movies, Best Space Movies, Best Movies of the 2010s, Sci-Fi Movies, Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies, Drama Movies
Michael Caine 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.
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
10 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
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
As Good as It Gets
as Cafe 24 Busboy
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Ant-Man
as Gale
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
As Good as It Gets
as Cafe 24 Busboy
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Blade Runner 2049
as Nandez
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 11 Nutevio collections
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