Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#148
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Logan Marshall-Green 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.
Logan Marshall-Green appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Logan. Killing Castro is the clearest case: a film rated 10.0 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 drama, history, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eif Rivera, Christopher Nolan, Jaume Collet-Serra and others, Logan Marshall-Green 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.
Killing Castro (2026) · The Odyssey (2026) as Melanthius · Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Jackson Brice / Shocker #1
Career snapshot
Ranked #148 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2005–2026
Career length
21 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
10.0
Killing Castro
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
10.0
Killing Castro
Most frequent director
Eif Rivera
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Eif Rivera
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
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
6.7 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Upgrade, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sand Castle — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.7
Across 7 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
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. The Great Raid.
Most productive era
2020s
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 | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 6.44 films | 7.14 films |
| Action | 6.51 film | 7.23 films | 5.34 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.64 films | 4.84 films |
| Comedy | — | — | 2.42 films |
| Crime | — | 6.33 films | — |
| Romance | — | — | 7.51 film |
| Horror | — | 6.61 film | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005The Great Raid
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lt. Paul Colvin.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2026Killing Castro
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 10.0 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
2026The Odyssey
The current state of the argument, as Melanthius.
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.
17 of 17 films
Directed by Eif Rivera
as Grey Trace
Directed by Leigh Whannell
as Melanthius
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Paul
Directed by D.J. Caruso
as Jackson Brice / Shocker #1
Directed by Jon Watts
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
Killing Castro
Killing Castro (2026)
Performance score9.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Logan Marshall-Green a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Grey Trace
Upgrade (2018)
Performance score8.1
Upgrade asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Grey Trace is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Melanthius
The Odyssey (2026)
Performance score7.8
The Odyssey asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Melanthius is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paul
Redeeming Love (2022)
Performance score7.6
Redeeming Love asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Paul 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
Start here. Killing Castro is the clearest statement of what Logan Marshall-Green does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 10.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Logan 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.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Killing Castro — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Upgrade (2018)
Keeps the action register of Spider-Man: Homecoming but asks for a colder reading of it.
Redeeming Love (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Upgrade — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Odyssey (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Redeeming Love — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Dahl
Director
1 film together
Notably The Great Raid
Antoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together
Notably Brooklyn's Finest
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Prometheus
Tze Chun
Director
1 film together
Notably Cold Comes the Night
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Snowden
Fernando Coimbra
Director
1 film together
Notably Sand Castle
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Spider-Man: Homecoming
Leigh Whannell
Director
1 film together
Notably Upgrade
Zoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably How It Ends
Adam Salky
Director
1 film together
Notably Intrusion
Anna Foerster
Director
1 film together
Notably Lou
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably Redeeming Love
Jaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together
Notably Carry-On
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Odyssey
Eif Rivera
Director
1 film together
Notably Killing Castro
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eif Rivera
Director
1 film together · 10.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killing CastroChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The OdysseyJon Watts
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Spider-Man: HomecomingD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Redeeming LoveLeigh Whannell
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UpgradeOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SnowdenJaume Collet-Serra
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Carry-OnRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PrometheusAnna Foerster
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LouFernando Coimbra
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Sand CastleJohn Dahl
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 Great RaidAntoine Fuqua
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Brooklyn's FinestAdam Salky
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IntrusionTze Chun
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cold Comes the NightZoe Lister-Jones
Director
1 film together · 4.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How It EndsSix 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
Killing Castro
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Killing Castro
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Killing Castro
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Odyssey
as Melanthius
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Killing Castro
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. Logan Marshall-Green 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
21 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
8 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
Killing Castro
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Killing Castro
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Killing Castro
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Intrusion
as Henry Parsons
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Killing Castro
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Odyssey
as Melanthius
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Killing Castro
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Jackson Brice / Shocker #1
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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