Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#17253
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Craig Roberts 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.
Craig Roberts appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Craig. Submarine is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 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 romance, comedy, adventure. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Dominic Brigstocke, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Rob Burnett and others, Craig Roberts 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.
Submarine (2011) as Oliver Tate · The Fundamentals of Caring (2016) as Trevor Conklin · Jane Eyre (2011) as John Reed
Career snapshot
Ranked #17253 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Submarine
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Submarine
Most frequent director
Richard Ayoade
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Richard Ayoade
Most common genre
Comedy
6 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
6.8
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
6.4
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
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans, The Current War, The Fundamentals of Caring — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
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. Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans, The Current War, The Fundamentals of Caring.
Most productive era
2010s
9 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 | 7.05 films | — |
| Action | 6.81 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.32 films | — |
| Comedy | 6.65 films | 6.51 film |
| Crime | 6.81 film | — |
| Romance | 7.32 films | 6.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Jane Eyre
Where our catalogue meets this career, as John Reed.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2011Submarine
7.4 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
2026Let's Love
The current state of the argument, as Ronnie Riskin.
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.
10 of 10 films
as Oliver Tate
Directed by Richard Ayoade
as John Reed
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
as Spencer
Directed by Phil Lord
as Robert Lane
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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
Oliver Tate
Submarine (2011)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Oliver Tate gives Craig Roberts a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Trevor Conklin
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Performance score7.6
The Fundamentals of Caring asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Trevor Conklin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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John Reed
Jane Eyre (2011)
Performance score7.1
Jane Eyre asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. John Reed is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Spencer
22 Jump Street (2014)
Performance score6.7
22 Jump Street asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Spencer 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 Oliver Tate
Start here. Submarine is the clearest statement of what Craig Roberts does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Craig 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.
Jane Eyre (2011)
Keeps the romance register of Submarine but asks for a colder reading of it.
22 Jump Street (2014)
A deliberate change of key after Jane Eyre — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Keeps the comedy register of 22 Jump Street but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Current War (2018)
Keeps the drama register of The Fundamentals of Caring but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Ayoade
Director
2 films together
Notably Submarine
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together
Notably Jane Eyre
Rodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Lights
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably Neighbors
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably 22 Jump Street
Rob Burnett
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fundamentals of Caring
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Current War
Dominic Brigstocke
Director
1 film together
Notably Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Ayoade
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SubmarineRob Burnett
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fundamentals of CaringCary Joji Fukunaga
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jane EyrePhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
22 Jump StreetAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
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 Current WarNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NeighborsRodrigo Cortés
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red LightsDominic Brigstocke
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten RomansSix 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
Jane Eyre
as John Reed
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Jane Eyre
as John Reed
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Submarine
as Oliver Tate
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jane Eyre
as John Reed
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Submarine
as Oliver Tate
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. Craig Roberts 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
6 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
Submarine
as Oliver Tate
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
22 Jump Street
as Spencer
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Jane Eyre
as John Reed
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Lights
as Ben
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
22 Jump Street
as Spencer
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
22 Jump Street
as Spencer
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Submarine
as Oliver Tate
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Submarine
as Oliver Tate
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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