Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1437
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Conleth Hill 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.
Conleth Hill appears in 12 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Conleth. The Sheep Detectives is the clearest case: a film rated 7.8 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 mystery, comedy, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kyle Balda, Eoin Macken, Jeanie Finlay and others, Conleth Hill 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.
The Sheep Detectives (2026) as Ham Gilyard · Official Secrets (2019) as Roger Alton · Whatever Works (2009) as Leo Brockman
Career snapshot
Ranked #1437 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
12
2003–2026
Career length
23 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.8
The Sheep Detectives
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
The Sheep Detectives
Most frequent director
Kyle Balda
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Kyle Balda
Most common genre
Drama
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
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
6.4
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
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Whatever Works, Intermission — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Whatever Works, Intermission.
Most productive era
2010s
5 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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.21 film | 6.43 films | 6.33 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.02 films | 5.41 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 6.41 film | 7.81 film |
| Crime | 6.21 film | — | — |
| Romance | 7.11 film | 6.41 film | — |
| Horror | — | 4.81 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003Intermission
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Robert.
Highest rated performance · Career peak · Most recent film
7.8 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. The current state of the argument, as Ham Gilyard.
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.
12 of 12 films
as Ham Gilyard
Directed by Kyle Balda
as Leo Brockman
Directed by Woody Allen
as Roger Alton
Directed by Gavin Hood
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
Ham Gilyard
The Sheep Detectives (2026)
Performance score7.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ham Gilyard gives Conleth Hill a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Leo Brockman
Whatever Works (2009)
Performance score7.2
Whatever Works asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Leo Brockman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Roger Alton
Official Secrets (2019)
Performance score7.1
Official Secrets asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Roger Alton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
Performance score6.9
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self 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 Ham Gilyard
Start here. The Sheep Detectives is the clearest statement of what Conleth Hill does — accessible, 109 minutes, and rated 7.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Conleth 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.
Whatever Works (2009)
Keeps the comedy register of The Sheep Detectives but asks for a colder reading of it.
Official Secrets (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Whatever Works — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Official Secrets — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
To Olivia (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Game of Thrones: The Last Watch — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Crowley
Director
1 film together
Notably Intermission
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Whatever Works
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Serena
Gavin Hood
Director
1 film together
Notably Official Secrets
Jeanie Finlay
Director
1 film together
Notably Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Eoin Macken
Director
1 film together
Notably Here Are the Young Men
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably The Sheep Detectives
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Sheep DetectivesGavin Hood
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Official SecretsWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Whatever WorksJeanie Finlay
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game of Thrones: The Last WatchLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Salmon Fishing in the YemenJohn Crowley
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IntermissionSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SerenaEoin Macken
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Here Are the Young MenSix 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 Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Official Secrets
as Roger Alton
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 Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Intermission
as Robert
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
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. Conleth Hill 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
23 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
7 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
The Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Official Secrets
as Roger Alton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Infinitum: Subject Unknown
as Professor Aaron Östergaard
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Sheep Detectives
as Ham Gilyard
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Intermission
as Robert
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Here Are the Young Men
as Mark Kearney
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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