Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#327
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bob Odenkirk represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 33 years in, and Bob is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bob Odenkirk appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bob. Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 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, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ben Wheatley, Timo Tjahjanto, Brent Hodge and others, Bob Odenkirk 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.
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (2023) as Self - Guest · Nobody (2021) as Hutch Mansell · Little Women (2019) as Father March
Career snapshot
Ranked #327 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
1993–2026
Career length
33 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Most frequent director
Ben Wheatley
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ben Wheatley
Most common genre
Comedy
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 35m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
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
6.5
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
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Little Women, Incredibles 2, The Post — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Waiting for Guffman, The Cable Guy, The Truth About Cats & Dogs.
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 | 6.01 film | — | 6.95 films | 4.71 film |
| Action | — | — | 7.51 film | 7.33 films |
| Thriller | 6.01 film | — | — | 7.33 films |
| Comedy | 6.24 films | 5.22 films | 6.34 films | 5.13 films |
| Crime | — | — | — | 7.01 film |
| Romance | 6.11 film | 5.31 film | 6.93 films | 4.71 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | 6.41 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1993Wayne's World 2
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Concert Nerd.
Career peak
2021Nobody
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2023Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Normal
The current state of the argument, as Ulysses Richardson.
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.
20 of 20 films
as Hutch Mansell
Directed by Ilya Naishuller
as Self - Guest
Directed by Paul Miller
as Father March
Directed by Greta Gerwig
as Ulysses Richardson
Directed by Ben Wheatley
as Hutch Mansell
Directed by Timo Tjahjanto
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
Hutch Mansell
Nobody (2021)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hutch Mansell gives Bob Odenkirk a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self - Guest
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (2023)
Performance score8.0
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Guest is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Father March
Little Women (2019)
Performance score7.7
Little Women asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Father March is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ulysses Richardson
Normal (2026)
Performance score7.6
Normal asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ulysses Richardson 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 Hutch Mansell
Start here. Nobody is the clearest statement of what Bob Odenkirk does — accessible, 91 minutes, and rated 7.9 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bob 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.
Little Women (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Nobody — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Little Women — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Nobody 2 (2025)
Keeps the comedy register of Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love but asks for a colder reading of it.
Normal (2026)
Keeps the action register of Nobody 2 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Stephen Surjik
Director
1 film together
Notably Wayne's World 2
Michael Lehmann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Ben Stiller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Cable Guy
Christopher Guest
Director
1 film together
Notably Waiting for Guffman
Bob Odenkirk
Director
1 film together
Notably The Brothers Solomon
Michael Dowse
Director
1 film together
Notably Take Me Home Tonight
James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spectacular Now
Ross Shuman
Director
1 film together
Notably Hell and Back
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably The Post
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Incredibles 2
Greta Gerwig
Director
1 film together
Notably Little Women
David Gordon Green
Director
1 film together
Notably Halloween Kills
Ilya Naishuller
Director
1 film together
Notably Nobody
Paul Miller
Director
1 film together
Notably Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Brent Hodge
Director
1 film together
Notably Downey Wrote That
Timo Tjahjanto
Director
1 film together
Notably Nobody 2
Ben Wheatley
Director
1 film together
Notably Normal
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Paul Miller
Director
1 film together · 8.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + LoveIlya Naishuller
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NobodyGreta Gerwig
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Little WomenBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Incredibles 2James Franco
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disaster ArtistBen Wheatley
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NormalSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PostTimo Tjahjanto
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Nobody 2James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spectacular NowChristopher Guest
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Waiting for GuffmanDavid Gordon Green
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Halloween KillsStephen Surjik
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wayne's World 2Michael Lehmann
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Truth About Cats & DogsMichael Dowse
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Take Me Home TonightBen Stiller
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Cable GuyRoss Shuman
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hell and BackBob Odenkirk
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Brothers SolomonBrent Hodge
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Downey Wrote ThatSix 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
Little Women
as Father March
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Little Women
as Father March
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
as Self - Guest
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Halloween Kills
as Bob
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Nobody
as Hutch Mansell
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. Bob Odenkirk 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
33 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.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
13 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
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
as Self - Guest
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Nobody
as Hutch Mansell
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Room: A Tribute
as Johnny
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Normal
as Ulysses Richardson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Nobody
as Hutch Mansell
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Incredibles 2
as Winston Deavor (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Spectacular Now
as Dan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Wayne's World 2
as Concert Nerd
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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