Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#200
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alan Ritchson 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.
Alan Ritchson appears in 20 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alan. Ordinary Angels 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 action, science fiction, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Patrick Hughes, Adam Shankman, Potsy Ponciroli and others, Alan Ritchson 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.
Ordinary Angels (2024) as Ed Schmitt · War Machine (2026) as 81 · The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Gloss
Career snapshot
Ranked #200 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
20
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Ordinary Angels
Average Nutevio score
5.7
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Ordinary Angels
Most frequent director
Patrick Hughes
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Patrick Hughes
Most common genre
Comedy
13 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
6.2
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
6.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Fired Up! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.1
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.1
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. Fired Up!.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | — | — | 7.71 film |
| Action | — | 6.05 films | 5.77 films |
| Thriller | — | — | 5.56 films |
| Comedy | 6.11 film | 5.77 films | 3.85 films |
| Crime | — | — | 6.82 films |
| Romance | — | 6.71 film | — |
| Horror | — | 5.31 film | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Fired Up!
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Bruce.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2024Ordinary Angels
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
2026Runner
The current state of the argument, as Hank Malone.
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.
20 of 20 films
as 81
Directed by Patrick Hughes
as Ed Schmitt
Directed by Jon Gunn
as Anders Lassen - 'The Danish Hammer'
Directed by Guy Ritchie
as Gloss
Directed by Francis Lawrence
as Aimes
Directed by Louis Leterrier
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
81
War Machine (2026)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. 81 gives Alan Ritchson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ed Schmitt
Ordinary Angels (2024)
Performance score8.0
Ordinary Angels asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ed Schmitt is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anders Lassen - 'The Danish Hammer'
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
Performance score7.4
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anders Lassen - 'The Danish Hammer' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gloss
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Performance score7.2
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gloss 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 81
Start here. War Machine is the clearest statement of what Alan Ritchson does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alan 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 Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Keeps the action register of War Machine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast X (2023)
Keeps the action register of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ordinary Angels (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Fast X — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Ordinary Angels — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Will Gluck
Director
1 film together
Notably Fired Up!
Francis Lawrence
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Jeremy Garelick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wedding Ringer
Matt Hullum
Director
1 film together
Notably Lazer Team
Lev L. Spiro
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland
Lin Oeding
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Uprising
Greg Coolidge
Director
1 film together
Notably The Turkey Bowl
Eric Bress
Director
1 film together
Notably Ghosts of War
Alan Ritchson
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Web: Cicada 3301
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
Jon Gunn
Director
1 film together
Notably Ordinary Angels
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Potsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together
Notably Motor City
Adam Shankman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man with the Bag
Patrick Hughes
Director
1 film together
Notably War Machine
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jon Gunn
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ordinary AngelsPatrick Hughes
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War MachineFrancis Lawrence
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hunger Games: Catching FireLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareJeremy Garelick
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 Wedding RingerPotsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Motor CityEric Bress
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ghosts of WarWill Gluck
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fired Up!Alan Ritchson
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark Web: Cicada 3301Jonathan Liebesman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesLev L. Spiro
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue Mountain State: The Rise of ThadlandMatt Hullum
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lazer TeamLin Oeding
Director
1 film together · 5.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office UprisingGreg Coolidge
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Turkey BowlAdam Shankman
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man with the BagSix 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
Ordinary Angels
as Ed Schmitt
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Above the Shadows
as Shayne Blackwell
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ordinary Angels
as Ed Schmitt
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gloss
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
War Machine
as 81
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. Alan Ritchson 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
13 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
Ordinary Angels
as Ed Schmitt
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Fast X
as Aimes
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Above the Shadows
as Shayne Blackwell
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Motor City
as John Miller
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gloss
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Gloss
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
as Anders Lassen - 'The Danish Hammer'
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Motor City
as John Miller
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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