Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#6714
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Mathieu Amalric 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.
Mathieu Amalric appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Mathieu. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest case: a film rated 8.8 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, crime, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Rebecca Zlotowski, Wes Anderson, Lisa Vapné and others, Mathieu Amalric 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 Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as Serge X. · The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as Serge X. · Zelensky (2025) as Narrator (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #6714 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2005–2025
Career length
20 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.8
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Most frequent director
Wes Anderson
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Wes Anderson
Most common genre
Drama
15 titles
Average runtime
1h 47m
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
6.5
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. An Officer and a Spy, A Beautiful Summer, At Eternity's Gate — 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
2000s
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. Quantum of Solace, Marie Antoinette, Munich.
Most productive era
2020s
16 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 | 6.92 films | 6.87 films | 6.36 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | — | — |
| Thriller | 6.72 films | 6.32 films | 6.44 films |
| Comedy | — | 8.52 films | 6.36 films |
| Crime | — | — | 5.94 films |
| Romance | — | 5.51 film | — |
| Horror | — | — | 6.61 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Munich
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Louis.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
8.8 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.
Most recent film
2025Ange
The current state of the argument, as Marco.
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.
26 of 26 films
as Serge X.
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Narrator (voice)
Directed by Lisa Vapné
as Chris Royjacker (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Richard Berger
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 28 titles · 29 total credits · active 2005–2025
A Private Life
2025 · Simon Cohen-Solal
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Marseille Bob
Zelensky
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Ange
2025 · Marco
Comment Volodia devint Zelensky
2025 · TV · Narrator
Serpent's Path
2024 · Laval
A Brighter Tomorrow
2023 · Pierre
Mars Express
2023 · Chris Royjacker (voice)
A Difficult Year
2023 · Henri Tomasi
Goodbye Vinyle
2023 · Maurice Faugère
Ne soyez pas vous-même
2023 · Self
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · The Commissaire
Oxygen
2021 · M.I.L.O
Pierre & Jeanne
2021 · Actor
Tralala
2021 · Tralala
Les Damnés de la Commune
2021 · Adolphe Thiers (voice)
Hold Me Tight
2021 · Director · Screenplay
Sound of Metal
2020 · Richard Berger
An Officer and a Spy
2019 · Bertillon
A Beautiful Summer
2019 · Actor
At Eternity's Gate
2018 · Dr. Paul Gachet
Ismael's Ghosts
2017 · Ismaël Vuillard
The Bureau
2015 · TV · Jean-Jacques, dit « JJA »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Serge X.
The defining work
#1
Serge X.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Serge X. gives Mathieu Amalric a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Narrator (voice)
Zelensky (2025)
Performance score8.5
Zelensky asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Narrator (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Serge X.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Performance score8.4
The Grand Budapest Hotel asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Serge X. is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Chris Royjacker (voice)
Mars Express (2023)
Performance score7.8
Mars Express asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chris Royjacker (voice) 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 Serge X.
Start here. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the clearest statement of what Mathieu Amalric does — accessible, 99 minutes, and rated 8.8 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Mathieu 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.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Same director as The Grand Budapest Hotel, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Sound of Metal (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Grand Budapest Hotel but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mars Express (2023)
Same director as Sound of Metal, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Zelensky (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Mars Express — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Wes Anderson
Director
4 films together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Munich
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Marie Antoinette
Marc Forster
Director
1 film together
Notably Quantum of Solace
David Cronenberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Cosmopolis
Roman Polanski
Director
1 film together
Notably An Officer and a Spy
Clémentine Célarié
Director
1 film together
Notably Pierre & Jeanne
Josée Dayan
Director
1 film together
Notably Goodbye Vinyle
Olivier Nakache
Director
1 film together
Notably A Difficult Year
Nanni Moretti
Director
1 film together
Notably A Brighter Tomorrow
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Serpent's Path
Lisa Vapné
Director
1 film together
Notably Zelensky
Rebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together
Notably A Private Life
Léa Seydoux
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Edward Norton
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ralph Fiennes
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
F. Murray Abraham
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Adrien Brody
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Willem Dafoe
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jeff Goldblum
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jude Law
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bill Murray
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Saoirse Ronan
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jason Schwartzman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Grand Budapest Hotel
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Wes Anderson
Director
4 films together · 7.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Grand Budapest HotelLisa Vapné
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ZelenskyRoman Polanski
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
An Officer and a SpySteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MunichNanni Moretti
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Brighter TomorrowSofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Marie AntoinetteClémentine Célarié
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pierre & JeanneMarc Forster
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Quantum of SolaceKiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Serpent's PathOlivier Nakache
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Difficult YearDavid Cronenberg
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CosmopolisJosée Dayan
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Goodbye VinyleRebecca Zlotowski
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Private LifeSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
5 wins · 6 nominations
1 win · latest 2010
as Actor
2 wins · 1 nomination · latest 2008
as Actor
as Actor
as Actor
1 win · latest 1997
as Actor
1 win
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
as Actor
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Sound of Metal
as Richard Berger
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 Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Marie Antoinette
as Man at Masked Ball
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
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. Mathieu Amalric has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.8 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #583 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.8 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Comedy, Adventure, Drama | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Wes Anderson | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Rewatchability, Quiet performance | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2014–2014 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Serge X. — The Grand Budapest Hotel | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | The Grand Budapest Hotel | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Adventure Movies, Drama Movies
Michael Caine edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
20 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
15 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 Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Sound of Metal
as Richard Berger
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
A Private Life
as Simon Cohen-Solal
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Quantum of Solace
as Dominic Greene
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Serge X.
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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