Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#67624
of 909177 performers
Top 10%
Yan Tual 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.
Yan Tual appears in 8 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Yan. 13 Days, 13 Nights is the clearest case: a film rated 6.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Jean-Baptiste Saurel, Martin Bourboulon, Sean McNamara and others, Yan Tual 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.
13 Days, 13 Nights (2025) as JC · Bau, Artist at War (2024) as Franz Gruen · Cold Meat (2024) as Vincent
Career snapshot
Ranked #67624 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
8
2020–2026
Career length
6 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
6.7
13 Days, 13 Nights
Average Nutevio score
5.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
6.7
13 Days, 13 Nights
Most frequent director
Jean-Baptiste Saurel
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Jean-Baptiste Saurel
Most common genre
Thriller
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
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
6.1
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
5.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Police Flash 80, Badinter, 13 Days, 13 Nights — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.4
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Police Flash 80, Badinter, 13 Days, 13 Nights.
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 | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 3.32 films |
| Action | 6.22 films |
| Thriller | 6.14 films |
| Comedy | 6.22 films |
| Crime | 5.83 films |
| Romance | 6.03 films |
| Horror | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Paul.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
6.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Badinter
The current state of the argument, as Father Clavier.
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.
8 of 8 films
as Franz Gruen
Directed by Sean McNamara
as JC
Directed by Martin Bourboulon
as Boris
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Saurel
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Franz Gruen
Bau, Artist at War (2024)
Performance score7.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Franz Gruen gives Yan Tual a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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JC
13 Days, 13 Nights (2025)
Performance score6.9
13 Days, 13 Nights asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. JC is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vincent
Cold Meat (2024)
Performance score6.9
Cold Meat asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vincent is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Boris
Police Flash 80 (2026)
Performance score6.5
Police Flash 80 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Boris 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 Franz Gruen
Start here. Bau, Artist at War is the clearest statement of what Yan Tual does — accessible, 130 minutes, and rated 6.5 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Yan 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.
Cold Meat (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Bau, Artist at War — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
13 Days, 13 Nights (2025)
Keeps the thriller register of Cold Meat but asks for a colder reading of it.
Police Flash 80 (2026)
A deliberate change of key after 13 Days, 13 Nights — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Badinter (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Police Flash 80 — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Rifkin's Festival
Gabriele Muccino
Director
1 film together
Notably Here Now
Neil Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably Duchess
Sean McNamara
Director
1 film together
Notably Bau, Artist at War
Martin Bourboulon
Director
1 film together
Notably 13 Days, 13 Nights
Jean-Baptiste Saurel
Director
1 film together
Notably Police Flash 80
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Martin Bourboulon
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
13 Days, 13 NightsSean McNamara
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bau, Artist at WarJean-Baptiste Saurel
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Police Flash 80Woody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rifkin's FestivalNeil Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DuchessGabriele Muccino
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Here NowSix 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
Bau, Artist at War
as Franz Gruen
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Bau, Artist at War
as Franz Gruen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
13 Days, 13 Nights
as JC
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Rifkin's Festival
as Paul
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Bau, Artist at War
as Franz Gruen
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. Yan Tual 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.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in thriller, 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
13 Days, 13 Nights
as JC
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Cold Meat
as Vincent
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bau, Artist at War
as Franz Gruen
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Duchess
as Victor
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
13 Days, 13 Nights
as JC
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Duchess
as Victor
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bau, Artist at War
as Franz Gruen
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Bau, Artist at War
as Franz Gruen
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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