Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4176
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Fares Fares 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.
Fares Fares appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Fares. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 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, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Alex Schulman, Tarik Saleh, Fares Fares and others, Fares Fares 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.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Senator Vaspar · Zero Dark Thirty (2012) as Hakim · The Purity of Vengeance (2018) as Hafez el-Assad
Career snapshot
Ranked #4176 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.5
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Most frequent director
Tarik Saleh
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Tarik Saleh
Most common genre
Thriller
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 58m
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
6.3
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
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. The Purity of Vengeance, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Child 44 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
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. Metropia.
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 | 7.02 films | 4.33 films |
| Action | — | 7.22 films | 6.41 film |
| Thriller | 6.21 film | 6.84 films | 6.54 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 0.01 film |
| Crime | — | 6.72 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Metropia
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Firaz (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7.7 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
The current state of the argument, as Bobo.
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.
11 of 11 films
as Senator Vaspar
Directed by Gareth Edwards
as Hafez el-Assad
Directed by Unknown
as Ibrahim
Directed by Tarik Saleh
as Hakim
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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
Senator Vaspar
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Senator Vaspar gives Fares Fares a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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George Fahmy
Eagles of the Republic (2025)
Performance score7.3
Eagles of the Republic asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. George Fahmy is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Hafez el-Assad
The Purity of Vengeance (2018)
Performance score7.3
The Purity of Vengeance asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Hafez el-Assad is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Ibrahim
Cairo Conspiracy (2022)
Performance score7.0
Cairo Conspiracy asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ibrahim 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 Senator Vaspar
Start here. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the clearest statement of what Fares Fares does — accessible, 133 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Fares 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.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
A deliberate change of key after Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Purity of Vengeance (2018)
Keeps the drama register of Zero Dark Thirty but asks for a colder reading of it.
Cairo Conspiracy (2022)
Keeps the thriller register of The Purity of Vengeance but asks for a colder reading of it.
Eagles of the Republic (2025)
Same director as Cairo Conspiracy, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Tarik Saleh
Director
4 films together
Notably Eagles of the Republic
Daniel Espinosa
Director
2 films together
Notably Safe House
Kathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together
Notably Zero Dark Thirty
Gareth Edwards
Director
1 film together
Notably Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Fares Fares
Director
1 film together
Notably A Day and a Half
Alex Schulman
Director
1 film together
Notably Adult Supervision
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tarik Saleh
Director
4 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Eagles of the RepublicDaniel Espinosa
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Safe HouseGareth Edwards
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryKathryn Bigelow
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zero Dark ThirtyFares Fares
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Day and a HalfAlex Schulman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Adult SupervisionSix 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
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Zero Dark Thirty
as Hakim
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Zero Dark Thirty
as Hakim
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
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. Fares Fares 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
9 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
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Purity of Vengeance
as Hafez el-Assad
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Zero Dark Thirty
as Hakim
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Purity of Vengeance
as Hafez el-Assad
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Zero Dark Thirty
as Hakim
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Senator Vaspar
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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