Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#18198
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Artus 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.
Artus appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Artus. A Little Something Extra is the clearest case: a film rated 7.1 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, drama, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nicole Garcia, Christophe Barratier, Albert Dupontel and others, Artus 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.
A Little Something Extra (2024) as Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain · A Good Doctor (2019) as Wilfried · The Children of the Resistance (2026) as Marcel
Career snapshot
Ranked #18198 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2019–2027
Career length
8 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.1
A Little Something Extra
Average Nutevio score
5.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.1
A Little Something Extra
Most frequent director
Nicole Garcia
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nicole Garcia
Most common genre
Comedy
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 22m
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
2010s
5.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Girls with Balls, A Good Doctor — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
5.4
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
5.4
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. Girls with Balls, A Good Doctor.
Most productive era
2020s
13 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 | — | 4.54 films |
| Action | — | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films |
| Comedy | 5.42 films | 4.610 films |
| Horror | 4.21 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2019Girls with Balls
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Coach.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.1 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
20277:40 ce matin-là
The current state of the argument.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
Directed by Artus
as Marcel
Directed by Christophe Barratier
as Philippe Bartek
Directed by Unknown
Directed by Nicole Garcia
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
Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
A Little Something Extra (2024)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain gives Artus a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marcel
The Children of the Resistance (2026)
Performance score7.2
The Children of the Resistance asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marcel is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Philippe Bartek
Spoiled Brats (2021)
Performance score6.6
Spoiled Brats asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Philippe Bartek is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Wilfried
A Good Doctor (2019)
Performance score6.6
A Good Doctor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Wilfried 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 Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
Start here. A Little Something Extra is the clearest statement of what Artus does — accessible, 89 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Artus 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.
A Good Doctor (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of A Little Something Extra but asks for a colder reading of it.
Spoiled Brats (2021)
Same director as A Good Doctor, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Children of the Resistance (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Spoiled Brats — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
7:40 ce matin-là (2027)
Keeps the drama register of The Children of the Resistance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Kheiron
Director
1 film together
Notably Brutus vs Cesar
Jean-Patrick Benes
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Swap
Olivier Baroux
Director
1 film together
Notably Natural Born Liar
Artus
Director
1 film together
Notably A Little Something Extra
Cédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together
Notably Dog 51
Albert Dupontel
Director
1 film together
Notably Il faut brûler maman
Christophe Barratier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Children of the Resistance
Nicole Garcia
Director
1 film together
Notably 7:40 ce matin-là
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Artus
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Little Something ExtraChristophe Barratier
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Children of the ResistanceCédric Jimenez
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dog 51Jean-Patrick Benes
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family SwapOlivier Baroux
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Natural Born LiarKheiron
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brutus vs CesarNicole Garcia
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
7:40 ce matin-làAlbert Dupontel
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Il faut brûler mamanSix 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
A Little Something Extra
as Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
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 Children of the Resistance
as Marcel
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
A Little Something Extra
as Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
King
as Thomas
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Little Something Extra
as Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
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. Artus 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in comedy, 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
A Little Something Extra
as Paul 'Paulo' Mounier / Sylvain
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Dog 51
as Malik Bouzid
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Children of the Resistance
as Marcel
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Family Swap
as Christophe
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Children of the Resistance
as Marcel
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Dog 51
as Malik Bouzid
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Children of the Resistance
as Marcel
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Good Doctor
as Wilfried
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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