Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#5528
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alden Ehrenreich 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.
Alden Ehrenreich appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alden. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 9.1 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 crime, drama, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Zach Cregger, Christopher Nolan, Elizabeth Banks and others, Alden Ehrenreich 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.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Senate Aide · Oppenheimer (2023) as Senate Aide · Weapons (2025) as Paul
Career snapshot
Ranked #5528 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.1
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Christopher Nolan
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Christopher Nolan
Most common genre
Drama
10 titles
Average runtime
1h 51m
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
2020s
6.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. A Talent for a Murder, Weapons, Oppenheimer — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.1
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
7 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. A Talent for a Murder, Weapons, Oppenheimer.
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 | 6.36 films | 5.94 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 7.13 films |
| Comedy | 5.82 films | 6.01 film |
| Crime | — | 3.02 films |
| Romance | 5.92 films | 6.31 film |
| Horror | 5.82 films | 7.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Somewhere
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Actor at Party (uncredited).
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.1 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 Edward.
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.
15 of 15 films
as Senate Aide
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Senate Aide
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Paul
Directed by Zach Cregger
as Han Solo
Directed by Ron Howard
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 16 of 16 titles · 16 total credits · active 2010–2026
A Talent for a Murder
2026 · Edward
Weapons
2025 · Paul
The American Revolution
2025 · TV · Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
Ironheart
2025 · TV · Joe McGillicuddy / Ezekiel Stane
Oppenheimer
2023 · Senate Aide
Cocaine Bear
2023 · Eddie
Fair Play
2023 · Luke
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018 · Han Solo
The Yellow Birds
2018 · Brandon Bartle
Hail, Caesar!
2016 · Hobie Doyle
Rules Don't Apply
2016 · Frank Forbes
Stoker
2013 · Whip Taylor
Beautiful Creatures
2013 · Ethan Wate
Blue Jasmine
2013 · Danny
Twixt
2011 · Flamingo
Somewhere
2010 · Actor at Party (uncredited)
The defining work
#1
Senate Aide
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score8.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Senate Aide gives Alden Ehrenreich a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Senate Aide
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
Oppenheimer asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Senate Aide is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Paul
Weapons (2025)
Performance score7.6
Weapons 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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Han Solo
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Performance score7.3
Solo: A Star Wars Story asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Han Solo is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Senate Aide
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Alden Ehrenreich does — accessible, 180 minutes, and rated 9.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alden 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.
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Keeps the drama register of Oppenheimer but asks for a colder reading of it.
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
A deliberate change of key after Blue Jasmine — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Oppenheimer (2023)
A deliberate change of key after Solo: A Star Wars Story — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Weapons (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Oppenheimer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together
Notably Oppenheimer
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Somewhere
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Twixt
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Jasmine
Richard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together
Notably Beautiful Creatures
Park Chan-wook
Director
1 film together
Notably Stoker
Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together
Notably Rules Don't Apply
Joel Coen
Director
1 film together
Notably Hail, Caesar!
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Solo: A Star Wars Story
Chloe Domont
Director
1 film together
Notably Fair Play
Elizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together
Notably Cocaine Bear
Zach Cregger
Director
1 film together
Notably Weapons
Casey Affleck
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
David Dastmalchian
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Florence Pugh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr.
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Josh Hartnett
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Rami Malek
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Benny Safdie
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Jason Clarke
Actor
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Christopher Nolan
Director
2 films together · 8.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
OppenheimerZach Cregger
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WeaponsWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue JasmineRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Solo: A Star Wars StoryPark Chan-wook
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StokerChloe Domont
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fair PlaySofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SomewhereElizabeth Banks
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cocaine BearRichard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Beautiful CreaturesJoel Coen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Hail, Caesar!Warren Beatty
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rules Don't ApplyFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TwixtSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Performer
Alden Ehrenreich
Where this journey starts
Director
Christopher Nolan
2 collaborations, averaging 8.6
Film
Oppenheimer
Their highest-rated film together (2023)
Performer
Matt Damon
Shares the frame in Oppenheimer
Film
Interstellar
Where Matt goes next, and where you can too
Performer
Michael Caine
Three steps from where you began
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 2024
Oppenheimer
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Somewhere
as Actor at Party (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
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. Alden Ehrenreich has known it for a long time.”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.1 | 8.9 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #364 of 681 | #2 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 4 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 2 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 6 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.1 | 9.3 |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Directors | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan |
| Performance DNA | Emotional range, Quiet performance, Drama | Transformation, Screen presence, Rewatchability |
| Career timeline | 2023–2023 | 2006–2014 |
| Most iconic role | Senate Aide — Oppenheimer | Professor Brand — Interstellar |
| Most rewatchable film | Oppenheimer | The Dark Knight |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Christopher Nolan
Shared collections
Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Collaborators in common
Christopher Nolan · Casey Affleck · Matt Damon · Cillian Murphy
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.
Editor's Icon
Awarded
Named by our desk for a body of work we return to when we need to explain what screen acting is for.
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
10 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
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Weapons
as Paul
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Han Solo
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Oppenheimer
as Senate Aide
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 3 Nutevio collections
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